Oct 02, 2012

B3 CRICKET For those of you who do not know, I have started my own Cricket company, together with Russ Evans and Michael Blatherwick called B3 Cricket.   B3 Cricket aims to provide the club cricketer the ability to design their ideal cricket bat, a service only previously provided to a handful of international professional cricketers. [...]

Jun 19, 2012

I thought I would write a little post to show you what a bat manufacturer/ maker can do to reduce the weight of a bat whilst apparently increasing the profile. I say increase profiles (tongue in cheek), but what I really mean is increase the edge.   All the profiles below have approximately the same volume; [...]

May 02, 2012

First of all sorry for not posting in a while, I have been a bit busy with GM 2013, which got me thinking about how you the cricketer select a bat? When designing a new bat its important to think who (what type of player will this bat suit) and what does that player want, [...]

Judging a bat by its….. edge. Big edges, everybody’s talking about them, on the forum, in the shops, in the dressing room. I like to go undercover into cricket shops and listen to people when they are choosing a bat, I often hear ”look at the size of this edge, its bigger than that one“ and on [...]

There’s been a bit of activity on the forum discussing the Player’s Edition bats that GM have released this year, so I thought I would discuss the concept and how it was born. I guess the first place to start is the bats provided to the Pro cricketer. The majority, and by majority I mean [...]

Firstly I would like to thank Tom and the Cricket Insight team for inviting me to contribute to the Cricket Insight website through a series of blogs, that will mainly focus on bats, both past and present and specifically the design and engineering principles behind them. At this point, you are probably asking who is [...]