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I think the meatiest was my mum’s antique coal pan. Sadly it snapped with a cover drive.
I almost killed someone at school on the hockey field, too, with a lofted drive for six. I was sin-binned for a week.
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Home made cricket bat
By Will 2 years ago, mid-August Leave a comment on this post
Can't imagine this would last too long…I like it, though. I would fashion bats from anything remotely cylindrical: poster tubes, brooms even old branches. What's the best non-bat you've ever used?
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8 Responses to “Home made cricket bat”
August 10th, 2006 at 12.01 am
August 10th, 2006 at 3.38 am
In Sri Lanka we use all sorts of things as bats. On the roads we normally play tennis ball cricket, so soft ball bats are available in shops made out of coconut wood, and it flies!! But when proper bats are not available we use all sorts of stuff. Coconut branches chopped off at a strategic point can make a decent substitute inspite of the odd splinter. Random planks of wood are also ok. But I’ve seen plastic bottles, broom sticks (sweep shots are probably the order of the day) and even hands when desparation really sets in.
The wickets are usually less common than bats so the usual practice is to have a pair of flip flops placed side by side so that they make up the width of the stumps. At the bowlers end a rock is usually placed and in order to run someone out the fielder has to step on the rock whilst holding the ball.
Long time back we were playing on the street in Colombo and Emma Levine, a cricket photographer in the mid 1990’s, was walking around and took pictures of our slightly odd cricketing paraphenalia, which included a half taped half singed tennis ball, a waste paper basket and some very dubious bats!
August 10th, 2006 at 3.54 am
Wooden writing pads used for examinations. It was always a lot of fun playing cricket with those. Balls were either tennis balls or table tennis balls.
August 10th, 2006 at 2.51 pm
An umbrella at Old Trafford: http://web.blogr.com/photos/7146/main
August 10th, 2006 at 3.22 pm
I just love the fact the creatore has taken time to put a manufacturers logo on it.
If GM have any sense they will give him/her a real GM bat out of sheer brand loyalty.
August 11th, 2006 at 11.55 am
Pencil Cases or lunchbox lids make for a good bat for the corridors at school!
June 25th, 2007 at 1.51 pm
We started too play cricket at school, inside. we were a bit to serious and instead of making what we were supposed to in our woodwork class we made a bat instead, seriously though it was Brian Lara quality.
July 26th, 2007 at 9.09 am
Hi ddm - amazed you remembered that I photographed you in Sri Lanka all those years ago! I specialised in street cricket culture in South Asia for several years, still cover cricket as well as other strange sports in Asia. I presume you would have been playing on Slave Island in Colombo, or maybe on the beach? Yep, I certainly saw many strange cricket bats - planks of wood, piles of bricks for stumps, wonderful! Published two books relating to that journey, one purely photos of all strange cricketing equipment and also venues! Saw many things all over India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Was at Lords last Thurs for test match vs India - from one extreme to another!
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