with the evolution and development of cricket bat we are getting bats which are extremely powerfull and any miss hit may result a sixer.you can relate this with the success of new age batsmen like shewag,dhoni who are successfull without footwork.only reflex and eyesight are doing it with the help of modern bats.we can only observe the changes of the great game,hopfully towards betterment
with the evolution and development of cricket bat we are getting bats which are extremely powerfull and any miss hit may result a sixer.you can relate this with the success of new age batsmen like shewag,dhoni who are successfull without footwork.only reflex and eyesight are doing it with the help of modern bats.we can only observe the changes of the great game,hopfully towards betterment
North Karnataka and bordering southern Maharashtra folks may really appreciate the new bat design especially if they played a specific form of gully cricket. In this form the pitch is much shorter that "HALF Pitch cricket" that we usually play and the bowler bowls underarm. The boundaries are also much shorter. In this format, the bat design is very similar with long handles and the blade being just about a little bigger than the size of the palm. The matches are played with full cricket rules (including LBW), but the difference being under arm bowling and of course the size of the ball is a smaller (much like a TT-ping-pong ball but made of rubber which are available in most stationary shops).
I also read about people speaking of facing yorkers. A batsman when he holds the bat, will naturally adapt to the dynamics and should be easily transfer weights accordingly. This is no rocket science.
However, coming to my main point is that I read that this bat design is patented. Another sorry state of affairs as we Indians are already using such bats and more bats with different dimensions. Only big players in the game can apply patents while we most don't even understand the term patent.
New bats with revolutionary materials/design to hit harder and further, balls infused with steel pellet magnets to give greater attraction, speed and direction and maybe in flourescent pink for optimum visibility and not to overlook special cricketing gears not only for batsmen and WK but also for the entire team and every player with large catcher's gloves to cushion impact (like base-ball), special spring shoes to jumpt over 10' to catch ball and jump about like springboks and finally the umpires among all these shindig standing tall in armour like King Arthur's round-table knights eqipped with head-mounted high resolution video cameras to analyse every delivery (like the cyborg Arnold in "Terminator" movies)all popping creaseboundry lines embedded with sensors to instantly determine run-outs or boundaies, etc. What the hell, mark my words, this is what cricket is coming to !!. Then people will happily switch over to hand-held cricket video games and our great cricket czars will revert to selling vada-pav !!
these kind of bats can bring revolution in cricket.....be it Test or ODI or T20....at the first glance u will find this bat v inappropriate....how will one handle yorker n fuller length deliveries....but i tell u a batsman of caliber of Hayden wont b using it if it wont b able to handle yorkers....hard hitters like yousuf pathan, yuvraj, afridi, kevin peterson, ross taylor n brigade who comes down the order might find it v interesting....inovation is allways viewed wid suspicion....but inovation brings revolutionary change
