The Teesra

Month: July 2023

  • 40 years of bat

    40 years of bat

    I posted a couple of months ago about my cricketing 50th anniversary — 50 years since I first played, back in 1973. And I have just realised that I am using a bat that is modelled on one I bought 40 years ago.

    The face is just about held together with tape!
    Not that clear in the pic, but the bat is split from toe to splice!
    My original GN500

    Not quite Trigger’s broom (or Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus, for the more Classically-minded), but there is a direct lineage from my old Gray-Nicolls GN500 to the bat(s) I have used this season with the Essex Seniors over60s.

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