Re-handling your cricket bat

Sometimes a bat tells you something’s wrong before you can see it.

You might feel like you’ve middled the ball, but it just doesn’t go anywhere. Or you walk off thinking you’ve hit one really well, and it hasn’t travelled the way it usually does.

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.

A re-handle can restore that connection. It brings the bat back together, improves power and control, and often brings a bat back to life without changing what made it good in the first place.

It’s not always obvious, but when the feel and performance drop away, the handle is usually where the story starts.

Think your handle has gone? Start a repair quote and we will look at the handle first, or talk to a bat maker in the Northgate workshop.