my new brittania bat

ive seen one of those bats, from that seller, they are ok quality english willow, but not all that good, maybe a practice bat or something, to be honest the best way to describe it is you get what you pay for!

to be fair if you buy a bat off ebay you are opening yourself up to be ripped off - especially considering there is no such brand as Britannia anyway.

i wouldn't call £15 a rip off,

but many of the bats on ebay are

"English Willow nurtured in India" which happens to be kashmir! so be careful and never pay too much for a bat off ebay, becuase sometimes you can get pretty good bargains!

i'm afraid it will basically be a cheap bat with Britannia stickers on it

yer i bought a bat from the guy dead cheap and he lied about it, said it would be between 2.10 and 2.12 lbs and it woz 2.6 but never mind you can really wave it about and gives sum pretty good power when you hit it out the middle but not as good as my gm purist and hero they are amazing.

Yeah most of the Britania and Hero honda bats are form different mfg's with replaced logo. for example rahul Dravid uses the SG Sunny Tonny with a britinia sticker and Ganguly uses a SS ton pro.

You can even purchase the sticker them selfs and put them on any bat you whish.

MRF makes good bats though have you see Tendulkars its brilliant

crick, english willow nutured in india is not kashmir willow, it still is english willow just not very good as it tends to be quite hard. it is actually called hybrid willow.

 

kashmir willow is different, this is just for tennis ball, and cheap bats.

sachin tendulkers bats are made by Bas vampire, mehnga ram who works for them makes his bats.

There are many bats on offer on Ebay of varying quality - most of the higher priced will be very reasonable SS, SG, BDM etc made of English willow - and you will get a lot more for your money than English brand that spend massive amounts on marketing and sponsorship. My advise would be not to buy anything that says 'Best quality willow' or similar - demand the country of source to be specified or leave alone.

I would agree with that but don't rule Ebay out.  There are also some very creditable suppliers - the low overheads of selling on Ebay do mean that if you find a professional source, you can save a small fortune.