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10% off gift cards for Father's Day 2026

To celebrate Father's Day 2026, all gift cards purchased between now and 11.59pm Sunday 6th September 2026 are 10% off. 

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Standard or custom? How to choose your next Cooper

Standard or custom? How to choose your next Cooper

Same willow, same workshop, same net-ready prep. The only real question between a standard and a custom Cooper is how many of the decisions you want to make.

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Getting your bat ready before the season starts

Pre-season is the right time to look properly at the bat that has been sitting in the shed since last autumn. Sort it now and it is ready for the first net session, not a scramble the week before round one.

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What knocking in actually does to a cricket bat

What knocking in actually does to a cricket bat

What published research actually says about knocking in a cricket bat, what it does to the willow, why we oil first and bone the edges, and why we do it by hand.

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Custom Bat Builder at Cooper Cricket

How our Custom Bat Builder works

Our Custom Bat Builder is an online tool that lets you design a cricket bat from the ground up. Then we bring it to life in our Brisbane workshop. 

It's that simple.

Ten models, five willow grades, and every detail in between, chosen by you. It takes about five minutes to design your bat, place your order and secure a spot in our workshop queue.

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Cricket bat rehandle at Cooper Cricket Brisbane

Repairs and restoration: what our Brisbane workshop can bring back

A cracked toe or a snapped handle can feel like the end of a bat, but often it's not. Every day we are bringing cricket bats back to life, and players are heading back to the crease with confidence. 

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Slazenger and Gray-Nicolls cricket bats for restoration

Vintage cricket bat restoration

Some bats are not about this season at all: heirlooms, club bats, pieces of cricket history. How our Brisbane workshop brings them back, step by step, quote first.

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Knocking in a cricket at Cooper Cricket

Ready for the nets, not for homework

When your Cooper Cricket bat arrives, it is ready to go: hand-oiled, knocked in by hand and hand-finished, with the face protected and the grip fitted. Net-ready, out of the box.

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Cricket bats with new handles at Cooper Cricket Brisbane

Re-handling your cricket bat

A lot of players bring bats into the workshop thinking the bat is dead. They wonder if it needs oiling, or if it’s time for a new one. The first thing we look at is the handle.

If the handle has started to break down, energy gets lost through the bat instead of transferring cleanly into the ball.

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