The evolution of the cricket bat - Mike Hussey & Mark Waugh test bats from every era I Fox Cricket

[@RrubhuVideos]

aw man so funny to watch Mark Waugh and Huss act like kids from all the excitement from the bats and Howard acting like a parent hahaha

[@Anandkumar-zm8kg]

👌Well said, I thoroughly enjoyed ur comment 😀

[@dizzystj]

These types of mid game shows are bloody awesome need more like it

[@iketyke7324]

Cricket in general is streets ahead of other sports with segments like this. We’re very lucky.

[@bibek6713]

​@@iketyke7324 because we have 40 minutes and 20 minutes break every day for 5 days🤣🤣 Name me a sport that lasts 5 days

[@iketyke7324]

@@bibek6713 That’s true 😂😂

[@phsycresconquest6636]

I used to really look forward to when Shane Warne was on these sorts of segments during Test Cricket. And I learnt how to bowl swing from a brilliant Jimmy Anderson Masterclass during the 2012 Ashes (I think it was that year)

[@pkoppula]

This is so sweet to watch. Two legends with their childlike enthusiasm 🥳👏🏽👍🏽

[@keraptisblackrazor2658]

Yep, it reminds me, in a completly unrelated topic, of the guy from Bachman Turner Overdrive discovering and explaining the opening chord of a Hard Day's Night. It's on You Tube somewhere, same sort of thing. Professional enthusiasm.

[@CrashBandiii]

I swear they put cocaine in the Aussie water supply

[@shantanuyadav441]

I'm just really happy that Mike got to keep his hero, Allan Border's bat. Really nice gesture by the respective Trust!

[@ipak2010]

Fox cricket as innovative as always. This is what makes Cricket in Australia special and a great viewing

[@Moordenaar69]

As a South African I totally agree

[@omsatyamgaming6000]

@@Moordenaar69 stick to supporting quota merchants

[@shashanksingh6674]

I agree

[@famweup]

@@omsatyamgaming6000 curry

[@omsatyamgaming6000]

@@famweup chutbol merchant

[@RatelHBadger]

Absolutely brutal comparison... Imagine Viv Richards swinging the modern timber.

[@paulrummery6905]

Somebody would likely have gotten hurt mate.

[@rossfranklin2782]

Imagine Bradman then..

[@RatelHBadger]

@@rossfranklin2782 he wasn't known as the Master Blaster. Brilliant batsman but not known for belting everyone out of the park like Richards. Viv with a modern bat might just be considered a lethal weapon against spectators.

[@jonathanandtrishavlogs6874]

Or Lance Klusner, Justin Kemp, Don Bradman, Graham Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Andrew Simons..

[@paulrummery6905]

Sure but none of the above would have hit it sweeter or looked more fucking cool than Vivian.. 😉

[@VolvoV8seriously]

A brilliant lunch segment by Foxtel, very interesting and informative. Great to see that Mark Waugh and Mike Hussy showing you still can get excited about a cricket bat.

[@xdarshan]

Man I can feel the guy being so scared and protective of these relics while the cricketers are absolutely excited without a care to try them lol

[@namotv814]

Just awesome. Cricket lunch shows need to be like this. And by the way, just imagine the likes of King Viv, Gordon Greenidge, Greg Chappel and Allan Border and Kapil Dev, how much runs they would have scored with the current modern bats. Wow, the distance difference is immense in the current and old bats!

[@_jinu]

And star sports talk about IPL during lunch shows🤦

[@lustyleopard6693]

Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas

[@frankmachin5438]

Clive Lloyd, Ian Botham … all the above names - the grounds would not have been big enough!

[@natalkumar6132]

@@lustyleopard6693 Kane Williamson is similar to Abbas.

[@dylanbetts8774]

Imagine if Sir Don Bradman had a bat from today

[@leeturton9254]

I remember bret lee hitting the ball completely out of the ground at the gabba in 2005...he was using one of those kookaburra beast bats with the carbon fibre on the back...i think it's the biggest hit I've ever seen....the sound of the bat was like a shotgun amazing

[@danishraza-fu8gr]

Against which team, what game was that??

[@MrPramii]

@@danishraza-fu8gr West Indies from memory. It's on KZbin somewhere

[@Renmazuo27]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/in_Oo3dvaryZo6c I remember this! He sent a few at Trent Bridge during the 05 Ashes too.

[@muhammadzohaib3747]

Isn't carbon fiber illegal?

[@liam3104]

@@muhammadzohaib3747 at the time it wasnt. and it was just the back of the bat

[@phillipwalsh2972]

Mark Waugh is so awesome.

[@alexbarn]

Love Mark Waugh’s strut. What an elegant batter he was. Great to see him here!

[@garethwest9069]

Batter? That's the stuff you coat fish with before frying.

[@markharrison6498]

@@garethwest9069batter’s probably more pc than batsman these days to be fair

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

I remember, as a lad during the late 1960s, that the bats were thin and light with a narrow grip. It was very difficult to find that ''sweet spot'' and getting a four was hard, let alone a six. You couldn't just swipe away... you had to REALLY think what and where your stroke would go. The whole approach to batting was different from what I observe today. There was more... strategising, if that's the right word... behind making your stroke. The batsman did the work; not the bat. Mind you, I have this impression (and I could be SO wrong on this) that bowling wasn't as fast as it became by the mid 1970s and the excellence of spin bowling was something yet to be seen.

[@soundbelch1600]

With modern bats, the sweet spot is so much larger than anything from the 80s when I was a kid, let alone back to the late 60's. A larger sweetspot means you can swing harder and faster and not need to be as accurate. It's absolutely analagous to playing golf with a wooden headed driver in 1981 compared to the moster metal-headed drivers of now. I agree that it's changed the approach to batting and changed the whole game as a contest, and not for the good in my view.

[@rishusverige]

We need to have a T20 World cup with those bats from 60s and we would find out how good the current batsmen are .

[@gregoryholmes329]

Awesome vibes in this video. Absolutely love the summer of cricket and brings back a lot of memories seeing these fellas enjoy themselves

[@cuebj]

1902 is a pretty new bat! Surprised the handle hasn't gone floppy. Every bat over 40 years ago I've ever had access to (I'm 67) has handle go floppy. Used to be able to have re-handle which was cheaper than buying whole new bat. I might join a club this year for first time in over 35 years and try to get one of the bats fixed

[@justadreamerforgood69]

Damn you're fit to play at 67

[@BhanuPrakash-wt7zl]

Did you join the club?

[@divyanshsindhu5280]

One of my favourite childhood star..mark Waugh 😊

[@Jimmyc6969]

one of the best leg side batsmen ever!

[@souravchoudhury9994]

Classical right handed batsman

[@mungers88]

Had a mark waugh signature series v100 when i was a kid, was my idol

[@MrCrikilover]

@@mungers88 the bastard was so talented he made batting look like child's play. Incredibly gifted

[@garethwest9069]

@@MrCrikilover He averaged 41 in a team that rarely lost; that's talent unfulfilled.

[@smak5023]

The scoop prevents the bat from turning, the mass is distributed more uniformly so less torque is applied when the ball hits left and right of the centre of gravity.

[@jeremybean-hodges6397]

Huh? How so?

[@Hiltok]

@@jeremybean-hodges6397 Same principle as used in 'cavity back irons' for golf. If you really want more details, read up on the physics of 'moment of inertia'.

[@jeremybean-hodges6397]

@@Hiltok I do understand moment of inertia - I am an engineer. But therefore if the ball hits off centre, the amount of torque applied to the bat is determined solely by the weight, speed, offset from centreline of the ball and the elasticity of the collision.

[@MrCrikilover]

@@jeremybean-hodges6397 I agree with your explanation. Quite to the contrary, it is not an even distribution of weight that allows more torque. Rather a bat with a shorter blade like the mongoose Is what's going to give you more torque. So, I find the explanation for even weight distribution and moment of inertia to be nonsensical. I feel like the scoop gives the bat more overall length and gives it a good spring for the launch. A longer bact acts like a cantilever. If you pull the end of a long cantilever beam and let go it will vibrate for longer because of greater potential energy, which in this case is getting transferred to the cricket ball. Essentially, you're applying the same amount of force from your shoulders, but the bat gets more purchase because of additional length from the scoop Balance is going to be determined by how much wood you have on either side of the center line, not the scoop itself

[@Hiltok]

@@jeremybean-hodges6397 As you seem to implying that torque and elasticity are the only determinants of rotational acceleration, I have trouble believing you really understand moment of inertia - rotational inertia depends on mass distribution in the object subjected to the torque. Why do almost all handicap golfers in this day and age use cavity back irons rather than traditional blade shaped irons? Why are tennis racquet heads so much larger than the traditional 9 inch wide wooden racquets while the overall weight of racquet used by top players has barely changed at all? With more weight towards the periphery rather than the centre, they are less susceptible to rotation from off-centre strikes.

[@ketanpathki7335]

What a session. Loved it. Now you know why today's batsmen score runs so easily and hit it out of the park effortlessly. Even mishits and edges go for sixes. Add shorter boundaries, restrictions on bouncers, no reverse swing with 2 balls used in a game, and batsmen well-protected overall. It is a bleedy batsman's game. Who would want to be a bowler in the modern game.

[@abhijit_]

Viv Richards playing with Warner's bat would have been a sight to behold...

[@SproutGardenusa]

This was incredible! You’re one of the most talented creators on KZbin.

[@AkashVardhaan]

how good was the reaction of huss and mark. Their eyes lit up when they see a different bat, just like a kid. cricket is love

[@whitemamba0312]

bradman was averaging almost 100 with those older bats and people tell me he wouldn't be able to play today lol

[@DrNoClu]

He'd make an absolute killing nowadays

[@Daredevils-5]

Bradman avg only in eng and australia 😆 if he play in Asia then his avg is below 60

[@whitemamba0312]

@@Daredevils-5 strange how no one else that played In England and Australia ever got near the 100 average 😳😳

[@waynemitchell1076]

@shubhamgaur6728 he used to play on uncovered, sticky wickets, making it significantly harder to bat on than the roads we have today. He played on wickets where the ball turned square or ran along the ground. Absolutely no one came close to his average anywhere.

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

@@Daredevils-5 Bradman did get to play against India and averaged 96 so I don't think their bowlers bothered him much

[@joebloggs2635]

The best bat ever made was the one Glen McGrath scored that miracle 61. That bat had to have had magical properties.

[@The-Great-Brindian]

This was super interesting to watch and that Alan Border bat was lovely - the sound of the leather just bouncing off that willow - nice.

[@damiensmith9240]

It's great to see the Allan Border bat while Junior is there. I saw them both make 100s against the Windies on day 2 of the Boxing Day test in 1992!

[@damiensmith9240]

Saw Huss make 145 against India in Sydney, too!

[@simoncampbell3144]

I had a Duncan Fearnley Rapier in the late eighties, cost £150 , a fortune back then , absolutely loved that bat , gave it to my neighbours kid when he started to show an interest in cricket, glad I did , but a little bit of me wishes I'd kept it , so I could relive my not so glorious cricket career

[@breastmilkgaming]

damn that's sweet

[@kirkanderson3265]

This is what you call MASTERCLASS. Knowledge and entertainment mixed. Loved it. Thank you cricket Australia

[@trustfire]

Mark & Mike turned into 15 year old's looking at those bats haha

[@yogfull]

Mark Waugh & Mike Hussey what a wonderful batters 👌💯 Mark Waugh's innings of 100 odd unbeaten runs against fiery South African attack in 1997 series to draw the test is his best knock in my books.

[@shyyou93]

Im guessing you are talking about Adelaide, you should see the 100 he hit in March 1997 in South Africa to win the series. He said that was his best innings.

[@Bernie8330]

@@shyyou93 Mark Waugh played four series sealing innings in four series against South Africa. In the Adelaide knock, runs mattered not one iota, as they were never at any stage legitimately chasing the token target set, considered out of reach from the start. However, they had to survive 110 overs, which is 660 balls. If we say that we don't want the 8-11 exposed so we say Healy has a par 60 balls to survive, and the 1-6 100 balls each. So Mark was 3.05 x par, the next best Steve, 0.93.

[@shyyou93]

@@Bernie8330 all good points, Im just referring to his diary he released where he said the century in South Africa a year earlier was his best innings.

[@Bernie8330]

@@shyyou93 Yeah, if Mark has that as his favourite innings, that’s certainly good enough for me. That 116 in Port Lizzy was 2.64 times the next highest score for Australia across both innings and 2.11 times the opposition’s top score in the match across both innings. The 136 runs he scored across both innings were against 172 scored by his 6 batting colleagues plus Healy (with Bevan at 7), and his strike rate of 51 was almost twice as fast as the flattened average of 28 of those same colleagues. Similar story when comparing his runs in that match against the entire opposition line up. This was how Mark operated when he played a big innings usually at key points in series. Between Ashes 1993 and 1999 world cup he played in 18 test series. In the deciding tests of those 18 series, he reached 50 17 times, 6 of them tons, against South Africa, West Indies, England and in Pakistan. He was a superb player, a clutch player who could switch gears when it mattered and scale heights that others couldn’t, including his wrongly much more vaunted twin.

[@santoshnautiyal2148]

I beg fox to please upload more of this fun and informative content... As a cricket fan i just love it. Please don't starve us in India from these precious contents. Please

[@abhijitthakur5698]

@santoshnautiyal2148 Never beg,just request. Whenever you say something at international level,you represent us i.e. India. Let's have some pride

[@pankajrohaj]

​@@abhijitthakur5698 dead right. Classic Indian appeasement mentality

[@AK-74K]

@@abhijitthakur5698 He is representing himself, he doesn't represent you or anyone else.

[@abhijitthakur5698]

@@AK-74K "Please don't starve US in India". Please read it completely before commenting

[@pankajrohaj]

@AK 74 For Foreigners, he will represent the rest of India. And he clearly mentions "US".

[@blackknight4666]

Moral of the story....never ever compare the old legends with current kids...just imagine them playing with the current technology bats

[@Bernie8330]

They would have to contend with much higher fielding standards.

[@eamonnbeatts8147]

Higher fielding standards, and balls would have carried off nicks more often thanks to the new bats.

[@Bernie8330]

@@eamonnbeatts8147 More of their best shots would have been deprived of runs due to much superior ground fielding, and promising innings would be snuffed out by a freakish catch far more often.

[@blackknight4666]

@@Bernie8330 who cares about ground fielding when edge's fly over for six

[@Bernie8330]

@@blackknight4666 You are talking t20 nonsense and even proper one day cricket to a certain extent. But my valid point is to do with test cricket.

[@ZenithAngel]

Should have included Warner’s Kaboom . Probably the biggest bat used in international cricket

[@LeoToppelachedo]

this is what henry said too

[@mathewsmith8073]

XP80 enters the chat..... (also made at the same time)

[@kaushikmukherjee7259]

Legends are legends irrespective of the time they born!!!

[@exposett246]

some indian or or englishman ? who else watches this crapp xD

[@sugarnads]

Ive got a 1932 Gunn & Moore Bert Oldield autograph model signed by Bert Oldield. Its a beautiful thing.

[@KamalJhamat-ly8oy]

Wow great to see such a beautiful old bats. My favourite Mike Hussey thanks fox cricket Lovely content 😅❤

[@jeffmonin6920]

They should of used Dennis Lillee's aluminium bat

[@conandis5542]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍

[@mohitkothiyal3481]

😂

[@rdatta]

Wonderful piece! What would have really helped is information about the weight of each bat. Idea that the first and last are close would be quite remarkable.

[@dialyviews7010]

Very good analysis. These type of stuff makes cricket interesting.

[@ExplorerDeb]

Happy to see my favorite player Mark Waugh after several years.

[@sandeshuttampatil2703]

Sunil gavaskar while doing commentary in a match said "when we played we had bats with edges nowadays players mistime their shots and ball goes off from middle of the edge."

[@alexrathers4592]

Great vid. Shows how the regard to safety has changed so much since the days of uncovered pitches and no helmets or thigh guards.

[@thomridgeway1438]

I still love the Duncan Fearnley that Ian Botham used in 81 at Headingley. That's my favourite!

[@howzathenry]

Love that Allan Border bat.

[@micko1404]

Mark Waugh, bloody legend.

[@Yobbo14]

My favourite bat was a crocket I found in my grandfathers garage, made tons of runs with that bat. Copped a lot of grief from the guys behind the wicket though. “They spelt cricket wrong”, “wtf is a crocket”, by 50 they’d usually quiet down.

[@rosskirby507]

Mark Waugh is so funny !!!! I remember a couple of years ago he said “that delivery was so wide he couldn’t have hit it with a surfboard” 😂😂😂

[@SriShridhar]

Classy program in the break. Australians take cricket and it’s coverage to a different level. Fantastic guys. Respect from India.

[@MegaNarsinha]

छ्री छ्रिधर

[@philthy4242]

What about the SS Jumbo? loved that bat back in the day

[@somersetreefer1168]

This through the ages look at bats was brilliant. Would love to see how the ball has changed!🤔

[@arunchakravarthya]

It's awesome to see two 50 Year old buddies having a ball of a time, so excited still..

[@pufdadie]

I use a County ala Dean Jones circa maybe 1998. Few chips but very powerful and heavy....connect and it goes

[@rishinjiya42]

Mark Waugh was my favorite batsman growing up even though I grew up watching Sachin as a kid. They used to call him "Poetry in motion".

[@Sandysand701]

Interesting, Clive Lloyd must have known his stuff, a bigger/fatter handle gives you a bigger sweet spot, imagine what would happen with a very thin handle and you hit the ball off centre, the bat will want to twist in your hand! Also the scooping out the middle of the bat, transfers more weight to the edges/sides, this makes the bat more stable with off centre his as well. The same thing with tennis rackets. Yonex brand have a bigger sweet spot due to the their isometric shape, more weight on either side and longer cross strings top and bottom.

[@timwilde4200]

Looking at all those heavyweight bats only makes me hark back to Bob Simpson's time as coach, when he tried coaxing a number of players to go back to lighter bats because of the proliferation of modern batsman getting caught in slips. His view was that heavier bats made it more difficult to adjust for lateral movement, especially off the pitch. We live in an era of flatter pitches and pace bowling that's the meat and potatoes of modern cricket, with a bit of spin thrown in. Bradman played in an era where medium pace was at it's zenith (think Alec Bedser, who bowled what Bradman claimed was the best delivery he ever faced) and spin bowling was king - to the day he died, he still claimed Bill O'Reilly was the greatest bowler he ever saw or faced. So there was much more lateral movement off pitches that weren't as well protected as they are today, meaning that a lighter bat would have been more advantageous for last millisecond adjustments. So with all that said, I think modern heavy bats (which Graeme Pollock popularized to the likes of Greg Chappell) are fine for minimal movement that uses the weight to stroke the ball to the boundary off pace bowlers, but for all the people who ponder what Bradman could have accomplished with them, I suggest they go and look at the full flourish of his stroke play in video clips, plus his lean and diminutive frame - he'd have practically fallen over trying to wield a modern bat. Every bowler who ever faced him said the same thing, that what set Bradman apart from others was the fact he 'saw' the ball yards earlier than other batsman - I've always put that down to the game he used to play for hours as a kid with the stump and golf ball. A heavier bat would have slowed down his reaction time and negated that advantage somewhat of seeing the ball so early.

[@THP999]

As a kiwi kid watching our blokes getting pummeled for decades. Mark Waugh was always a pleasure to watch. Mr Cricket was always fun to watch too.

[@Dhritiman619]

Pretty nostalagic.. We grew up watching these bats used in cricket game especially i were a fan of GM & V slazenger series bat.. Funky stickers

[@thatsbollox]

I still keep an early 80's SS Jumbo under the bed.....last line of defence. Used a Gunn and Moore right thru my career though. My nephew busted the splice of my last GM in the nets 10 yrs ago. I wasnt happy.

[@YashVardhanTanwar]

This was just a treat to watch. Thanks Fox Cricket!

[@EthanReeceGrantWorth]

An absolutely joy to watch, Mark Waugh and Huss remind one of children on a Christmas morning

[@wernertukker5420]

How I wish they would re-launch Duncan Furleys .. they were great bats

[@aglobetrottingwriter9266]

They’re still making bats, just google them. Tempted to get a Magnum just to hang on the wall.

[@richardrobinson1651]

Would love to see Lance Cairn's Newberry Excalibur compared to a modern bat.

[@insertnamehere5809]

The bat with the shaved off edges at the top, my dad had one & it was bloody heavy

[@gbthrylos]

The day after he hit all those sixes i went to garage and cut shoulders of a few bats

[@solidcricket]

18:15 this increases my respect for Guys like Viv Richard,Sachin,Jaysurya who used to hit sixes on will :)

[@nikhilreddy8550]

Jayasurya had springs in his bat which gave him an unfair advantage. Or atleast that's what 12 year old deprrssed me believed to cope with India's loss to SL in semis of '96 World cup.

[@mridulajmeri2552]

@@nikhilreddy8550 same with punter on 2003 wc final 😆

[@terminusest9179]

I live in Kingsgrove so I've driven past that sports centre several thousand times in my life, never thought Mark would know that place.

[@michaels3815]

He used to work there.

[@sharps47]

That is a cannon, mate!

[@JimmydhBrown]

IT ISSSSSSSSS

[@Videshideshbhakt]

Batting was an art back when their generation and older one's played. It was a dance and a fair but brutal competition between skilled bowlers and classfull batters!

[@ravantheoghacker863]

You know the bigger the edge the higher the chance of getting out

[@Vinan2k]

Excellent broadcast during the lunch break! well done fox cricket

[@wnood]

Great analysis. Bummer they were time constraint coz it wouldve been interesting to properly assess each bat, specifically in the later years. Must give respect to Bradman for his 100s with the lighter/smaller bat. My mind is blown if hed had a modern/2010s bat in his hands and the scores hed have achieved.

[@orkoprobhobhaduri7344]

Gee, that lynn and munro thing really cracked me up. Legendary kerry

[@bharathkrishna6776]

Was a pleasure to watch

[@TheMaverickanupam]

Bradman would average 199.88 with the current bats.

[@justadreamerforgood69]

He played against 60 mph bowlers so no

[@HoratioFitzbastard]

​@@justadreamerforgood69Harold Larwood bowled 60mph?

[@justadreamerforgood69]

@@HoratioFitzbastard Exactly my point. 1 bowler brought done down Bradman's average to 50 something in that series so if he faced 3 pacemen,1 all rounder and 1 spinner like in these days his average would be like 20

[@HoratioFitzbastard]

@@justadreamerforgood69 So if all the bowlers were throwing pies, how come noone else came within an elephants trumpet of his average?

[@justadreamerforgood69]

@@HoratioFitzbastard Because cricket wasn't played seriously back then lol. Most of the guys just played it for fun and had day jobs Bradman was a wealthy guy and could afford to only concentrate on cricket

[@Shivian124]

I believe the large thick bats nowadays is possible via weight reduction techniques. They are able to dry out the moisture more effectively taking a lot of the weight out that way.

[@james6247]

This was chaos but hilarious 😂

[@InvisibleJiuJitsu]

Lol at letting those two heathens loose on those antiques 😂

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

I'm not even joking when I say this - the last ball Hussey hit only JUST missed the back of Pucovskis head. He was doing a lunchtime show for Channel 7 and the ball landed right next to him. I was right there in front of him and it was terrifying.

[@saisandeep8741]

lol

[@TheJuicyjunk13]

@@saisandeep8741 Piss off Sandeep

[@TheJuicyjunk13]

That's the last thing Pucovski needs with all his concussions

[@stevennorris7181]

he would have been concussed for the rest of his life if it hit him

[@andreettienne3231]

😂 he's a 🧲

[@thatsbollox]

That first one used by Vic Trumper and Syd Gregory looks like they used old engine oil on it. Clive Lloyd's monster GN is a treasure.

[@MASTAHMELO]

We need more content like this

[@ajbardawil9546]

The biggest six I ever hit was from a V100 out of a communal cricket bag. They were amazing

[@ChumblesMumbles]

At 4:18 the size of that grip is absolutely crazy!

[@sonujha2769]

Finally somewhere Micheal Clarke and Simon katich are sitting side by side

[@arffadailey8055]

Good pickup!

[@AnalogBuddy]

David Hussey walks off with a limited edition bat 😂😂😂 He seemed to be so enthusiastic with all those bats - starting from the oldest one in the lot. What a genuine chap.

[@Shivian124]

*Mike Hussey

[@beastmry]

Viv Richards made a mockery of bowlers during the 70s and 80s. I can't even imagine what he'd do in this era

[@shashankrao23]

I wanted a Mark Waugh bat when i was a kid, felt like a Katana :D

[@richardsmith8654]

Great to see them with the bat named after Clive Lloyd. People forget just what a hard hitter he was. If he had the modern technology his average wold have been substantially higher.

[@waqas7562]

Aussies are so much fun. Really love to see them. Wathed aussie team live in Rawalpindi. Warner was having fun. All of them enjoyed.

[@neothings7662]

Back in the 12% moisture content was standard because they just did want to deal with the return... Pro -cricketer you get away for lower moisture but bats are retired earlier i.e the they don't keep for years... 1% moisture equates to about 1oz / 1mm overall willow on the bat. If you take that ounce of a certain areas, only on the edge or middle you get more then 1mm of wood so pro-bat alway look bigger.... The next bit is concave, they move wood for the middle area by scoping it to add it to the edge, it is just con, the volume/mass is same it just in different areas. GN Scoop were the pioneers of this.... That big edge design / the scoop helps with off centre shots because it helps to reduce energy loss due to twist. Most batsmen/women want to hit out of the middle not the edge, so is a big edge helpful not really unless you aren't great. It is akin to the golf and game improvement irons, they are helpful for the newbies but it doesn't help if you want to shape and control a shot

[@andrewscotttt]

The footage showed that Skull had a bat with a sponsor in the centenary test.

[@AshokSridharan]

You can really see how much Hussey loved batting!

[@uzziman9659]

Take shot everytime howy says dont touch the handle

[@5150show]

Mark was a brilliant batsman

[@Steve-jq4st]

And an even better fielder.

[@dilipdeb5396]

Legendary Greame Pollock also used to use that Allan Border bat. With his he, at the age of 42, simply destroyed young Reckman,Alderman,Rodney Hogg and other Aussie bowlers in those rebel tours in mid eighties.

[@samuelatienzo4627]

12:21 - a very accurate impersonation of Harry Solomons 😂

[@rohitsaha371]

mangoose bat was goated 🥶🐐

[@funwithimandiv3867]

Amazing bats!

[@CrashBandiii]

I remember playing with a Big Kahuna as a teenager, could barely swing the thing but when you middled it, you sent it to the moon

[@dampaul13]

I've heard that the middles of bats haven't necessarily gotten better, just that the size of the 'sweet spot' is massive, making the bats much more forgiving.

[@scholesiefirsttime]

Imagine being able to test bats like this (before you buy)?! That would be a fun hour or two!

[@mirasolovklose3888]

Seeing Mr. Cricket holding on to the bats had me dreaming he might announce his comeback.

[@navodprabhashith8738]

0:10 left corner 🤣

[@hdogga06]

Top or bottom..?

[@shadyizloo]

Wtf was he doing

[@F_BRO24]

🌕

[@Backbencher-t8j]

Those bats from sir viv richards era were the beasts 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@markdowse3572]

Mark Waugh and "Mr Cricket", Mike Hussey, are like two kids in a lolly shop! 🤗 Brilliant! 😊👍 Thanks to FOX for this. I hope there are more elements of this amazing game that they cover like this. 🙏 M 🦘🏏😎