There were regular comparisons with Alastair Cook, which fit beyond the left-handedness and Gray-Nicolls gear ... Holden struggled for balance. His 2023 was a microcosm of this: his best in T20 ...

There were regular comparisons with Alastair Cook, which fit beyond the left-handedness and Gray-Nicolls ... His 2023 was a microcosm of this: his best in T20 cricket (averaging 30.21 and striking ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Cricket ... famously tried to use an aluminium bat in the 1980s. One of the best known of these was the Gray-Nicolls “Scoop” with which Brian Lara scored ...

It also marks the busiest period of the year for Ian Sampson, who has spent more than 50 years handmaking cricket bats. Some of the sport's biggest names have been his customers, alongside village ...

but it continues to leave its footprint on international cricket as well. The eighteenth season of the Indian Premier League is in many ways trying to restore the lost balance between the bat and the ...

In 2018, the ECB introduced, as part of its domestic playing conditions, checks on bat sizes to make sure they conformed to Law 5 of the MCC's Laws of Cricket, which restricts the thickness of bat ...

As the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) tightens its "bat-check" policy, Sunil Narine and Anrich Nortje of the Kolkata Knight Riders became the first two players to be excluded from ...

Kolkata Knight Riders' Sunil Narine and Anrich Nortje became the first couple of players to be denied usage of their first-choice bats as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI ...

However, Paras Anand, CEO of Meerut-based Sanspareils Greenlands (SG), a well-known bat manufacturer, feels that the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodians of the laws of the game ...

I wish they'd checked the bats when I was playing.' IMAGE: In the game against Punjab Kings on Tuesday, Kolkata Knight Riders' Anrich Nortje's bat did not pass the test and he had to change his bat.

2. What is this “gauge test” for bats in the IPL? The gauge test involves using a triangle-shaped plastic tool with specific dimensions marked on it, representing the legal limits for a cricket bat.

Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) Sunil Narine and Anrich Nortje's bats failed the gauge test during the IPL 2025 game against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Mullanpur on Tuesday. The Narine incident came first.