So after GM, GREY NICHOLS AND KOOKABURA

[Cricketics]

it's time for MRF to be used by more players. i have been noticing that of late lot of players have started using MRF bats. SRT started it, then Waugh and Lara and now so many players. i see couple of NZ players also using it. Likez of GM, Grey Nichols, Kookabura are getting lesser day by day.

[Predator_05]

They are all made in India anyway.

[Cricketics]

Not all of them though??? anywayz, I remember getting my cricket bats from city of Jalandhar. Man they had these big factories for cricket bats. it was such fantastic to see how the bat was made and stuff.

[h4te]

maybe they think the bat has magical powers? little do they know that its not the bat with the super powers, but the man GOD that is using the bat.....

[cricketman]

MRF should only be for the elite. Lara, Waugh, and SRT are all masters of the game and the bat was a trademark of that. We shouldn't just toss it around like a Reebok. I wouldn't be surprised if the bats were discontinued...

[Shane]

I remember S Sriram using it !!!

[Guest Hiten.]

MRF don't actually make the bats unlike GM, Kooka and Gray Nicolls, in other words MRF is just a sticker on the bat.

[Predator_05]

MRF don't actually make the bats unlike GM' date=' Kooka and Gray Nicolls, in other words MRF is just a sticker on the bat.[/quote'] Exactly. Same goes for Reeboks or Britannias or Hero Hondas. They are all either BDMs or SS's with stickers on them. You can even see the logos on the sides of their bats, but they usually tape them up while playing...

[SachDan]

Exactly. Same goes for Reeboks or Britannias or Hero Hondas. They are all either BDMs or SS's with stickers on them. You can even see the logos on the sides of their bats, but they usually tape them up while playing...

any idea which bat Sachin is using now ?? early years we saw him using a BDM bat. my bad! so SS it is.

[Predator_05]

So any idea which bat Sachin is using now ?? early years we saw him using a BDM bat.

His match bat is either a BDM or an SS. His gloves, pads, elbow guards, are all definitely BDM . Dravid has always used an SG, and Ganguly, Laxman used SS Tons for a long time too until recently. Sehwag is another SS man.

[ludhianvi]

A lot of the stickers are just for advertising. If I am not mistaken MRF=Madras Rubber Factory. I've used a friend's SS bat and it was quite decent. A friend of mine also bought the MRF from ebay and I found it to be a little light for my liking.

[Predator_05]

Actually, i was wrong...Tendulkar's gloves are Vampire, not BDM.

[PaiN_KiLLeR]

BDM, SS & TON ... are they Indian bat manufacturers?

[Predator_05]

BDM' date=' SS & TON ... are they Indian bat manufacturers?[/quote'] TON is just a best selling SS brand...ie; SS Ton Here is Dada using one; ...and yes, they are all 100% Indian. BDM, SS, SG, Vampire have a monopoly on the production of cricket equipment in India

[Guest HariSampath]

SS incidentally is Sunridges, a bat manufacturer which started making cricket bats in the late 1970s, early 1980s. My first one was a Jumbo, from them in 1980. However, the original SS is Stuart Surridge, the one made famous by Viv Richards when he was using SS Jumbo, that bat had an extra thick middle, more than 3 inches thick at its thickest point, with specially made edges. Duncan Fearnley was a bat favored by Gavaskar for much of his career, its innovation for Gavaskar was , on his suggestion for bats specially made for him to have minute holes drilled into the bat at the top and near the splice, to reduce air resistance when the bat is swung straight, an amazing concept that no one had really thought of. I had seen a couple of those bats , and the type of holes drilled and the number can actually be designed to assist a certain type of bat movement. In India, at that time the major brand used by most Indian test players was Symonds. They came out with a model called bottle neck, in which the shoulder of the blade was not a sharp edge, but a tapering curve from the handle. This was helpful in ensuring that the ball does not fly off the shoulder of the bat, and it will miss it as it is a curve...just as a bottle neck curves into the middle. Symonds also had a double protrusion behind, along the lines of an SS Jumbo, bit with wight distributed more equally. St Peters, County clipper and Gunn and Moore , were, along with Gray Nicholls the more popular overseas cicket bats. GR Vishwanath used SP and Cc for all his career. Gray Nicholls were the first to come up with the single scooped bats, prominently used by Greg Chappell, and the feather light multi scooped version, that had 2 large and 2 smaller scoops behind the bat to reduce unnecessary weight . Sanspareils Greenland, SG is of course reputed to be the best makers of cricket bats...Sunny Gavaskar had a stake in the company when it started in the late 1980s, and Azhar was a bigtime user with a permanent contract. These so called MRF bats and Brittania bats are not cricket bats made by them, as someone pointed out they are stickers. But due to a law in 1993, to counter proxy advertising, any company passing off as a bat manufacturer, must make and sell a minimum quantity of cricket bats in the market. So we would have Hero Honda, Brittania and MRF bats , made for school children , a few thousands probably, to meet this criterion.

[Holysmoke]

Anybody remember the Power bats? Those were my favorite bats..

[Rajan]

Kapil dev was using POWER bats yeah, kapil dev was using power bats and he used to hit long and hard. i have a vague memory of even srikkanth using power bat a few times.

[Tapioca]

In India, at that time the major brand used by most Indian test players was Symonds. They came out with a model called bottle neck, in which the shoulder of the blade was not a sharp edge, but a tapering curve from the handle. This was helpful in ensuring that the ball does not fly off the shoulder of the bat, and it will miss it as it is a curve...just as a bottle neck curves into the middle. Symonds also had a double protrusion behind, along the lines of an SS Jumbo, bit with wight distributed more equally. Sanspareils Greenland, SG is of course reputed to be the best makers of cricket bats...Sunny Gavaskar had a stake in the company when it started in the late 1980s, and Azhar was a bigtime user with a permanent contract.

Was Symonds an Indian company ? The ads used to say that the bats were made of Kashmir willow Gavaskar used a brand called Sunny Tonny in the mid-80s. Who made it ?

[Guest HariSampath]

Isnt Kashmir Indian ? So Symonds was an Indian company making cricket bats from Indian wood :D What a great political statement by a bat manufacturer !

[Guest HariSampath]

Sunny Tonny was SG