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Good Gear Guide All Ads Outlined (W220 X H285mm).Indd 6 20/01/2014 17:05 Good Gear Guide > Welcome THe 37 bEST BATS TESTED FROM THE SHOP TO THE CREASE, THE PICK OF THIS YEAR’S RANGE THE DON’S TOp 10 bATS A FIRST-CLASS VIEW FROM OUR SECRET PROFESSIONAL HEAD TO TOE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET KITTED OUT FOR THE SEASON Good Gear Guide_All Ads_Outlined (W220 x H285mm).indd 6 20/01/2014 17:05 GOOD GEAR GUIDE > Welcome FROM THE EDITOR THE TESTERS It’s time to take stock ahead of a new season. Stock from the ALEX PIGG Lord’s Cricket Store, that is. Competition winner IT’S BECOMING our annual for you is somewhere in these your own ‘Try before you buy’ January joy, The Cricketer’s pages. Because, believe me, session at the MCC Cricket pilgrimage-come-pillage we saw off more than 2,500 Academy and look out for the at the finest cricket shop deliveries on your behalf to discounted prices available in the land. When it comes make our findings as forensic throughout this supplement. STUART PIGG to beating the winter blues as possible. As ever, we owe special Competition winner there’s nothing like a trip to Each member of our six- thanks to the Lord’s Cricket the Lord’s nets, especially man testing panel, with Store and the MCC Cricket when armed with an arsenal its 50-50 pro-am split and Academy (Duncan Copplestone of brand-new weaponry. diverse range of styles, has and Steve Naylor in particular) This year’s Good Gear Guide nominated his willow of for allowing us to take such features 37 of the finest choice and on page 122 our liberties with their wares. bats imaginable. We have secret first-class pro, The Don’t forget, it’s not all about MARK ALLEYNE heavy bats and light bats, Don, gives his own verdict on the bats either. Seven of these MCC Head Coach flashy bats and demure bats, the 10 bats that tickled our pages are dedicated to the pricey bats and bargain bats. collective fancies the most. replenishment of the rest of Whatever your standard, But the only way to be sure your kitbag. The 2014 season and no matter how deep or that a particular bat is for you promises to be one of new shallow your pockets may be, is to test it out for yourself. beginnings. And we know the we guarantee that the blade Turn to page 132 to book perfect place to start. AFF NASEEM Lord’s Cricket Store CONTENTS NEWMAN TOON 102 Dancing in the aisles The romance of testing day gets the better of the editor 106 The bats We give the verdict on 37 of the JIM HINDSON finest bats in the 2014 range The Cricketer 122 The Don magazine Our top-secret pro picks his top 10 124 Pads and gloves The finest soft furnishings 126 Wicketkeeping Don’t get stumped for choice 128 Boots For all of the The year’s finest footwear equipment featured ANDREW MILLER 130 Helmets in this year’s Good The Cricketer Gear Guide and magazine Five fine lids. Which one fits? much more, visit 132 Try before you buy shop.lords.org A unique opportunity at Lord’s buy at shop.lords.org n thecricketer.com / 101 GOOD GEAR GUIDE er grains ran smooth and umbug. That sort of fairytale straight, drawing my never comes true, does it? I might eye from the toe to the Has well keep dreaming that the splice and back again. Her England selectors are about to call Brief curves were subtle yet (though, admittedly, my chances have powerful, caressed into never felt higher than they do in the shape by a disciplined but Ashes aftermath). encounter gentle regime of lathe, chisel and And yet, for one day a year, in the sandpaper. She commanded instant otherwise bleak month of January, Andrew Miller attention as she stood there in the fantasy really is made flesh at the Lord’s Cricket Store, her willowy yet Home of Cricket. As one of six lucky strong features embellished by the testers for The Cricketer’s Good Gear falls in love in the classiest hint of stickering. Guide, it is once again my arduous It was lust at first sight as I task to speed-date through the finest tentatively beckoned her down from bats in the 2014 range. And transmit Lord’s Cricket her plinth and swept her into my my findings to you, the willow- stance. “I’m out of your league,” she wielding public. whispered, as together we sashayed It’s an awesome responsibility but Store as The down an imaginary wicket and there’s a crack team helping to make galumphed a heavy-footed drive it happen. Back for another year of towards the soft goods section. testing is The Cricketer’s own Jim Cricketer’s bat And on any ordinary day this would Hindson, a former Notts and England indeed have been true. Her price tag Under-19 spinner, as well as the was prohibitive, her balance and MCC Cricket Academy Head Coach, testing operation poise wasted on a Sunday league Mark Alleyne, of Gloucestershire slogger such as me. But this was and England fame. Making his debut goes into overdrive no ordinary day, and no ordinary is Aff Naseem of the Lord’s Cricket place either. Store, who used to turn out for “Shall we go for a test drive?” Pakistan Under-19s before turning once again I asked, motioning towards the his hand to coaching. And our two pristine lanes of nets awaiting next competition winners, Alex and Stuart PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL CARROLL, door in the MCC Cricket Academy. Pigg from Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, PORTRAIT COLLECTIVE “Sure,” she replied coyly. “Why not?” whose day includes an impromptu Dancing in the aisles: Andrew lines up another imaginary Follow us on Twitter drive as Stuart, Alex @Lords_shop and Jim talk shop 102 / thecricketer.com n buy at shop.lords.org > buy at shop.lords.org n thecricketer.com / 103 GOOD GEAR GUIDE Lord’s ‘How To Buy’ Guide Check out the Buyers’ Guide videos from the Lord’s Cricket Store ALEX PIGG Competition winner THREE HOURS A bowling OF TALKING allrounder for Cheshunt CC, AND TONKING Alex, 18, is the HAS BURNED club’s reigning AS MANY Young Player of the Year but used to think cricket ANALOGIES was a “boring old man’s game” AS CALORIES until his brother bullied him into playing in the back garden – a rare concession as Alex is generally the competitive one. Now he’s hooked: “I’ll watch the Ashes, Big Bash, IPL, whatever cricket is on.” STUART PIGG Competition winner More of a watcher than a player, Stuart’s main aim as a batsman is to “stay in and let the guy at the other end do the work”. His fi nest hour was a two-wicket burst in his fi rst game – “one of which Cricket writing: Andrew has his notes taken by Dan (top); Mark gives his opinion was Alex”. An Essex supporter, he (above left) as does A (above right); another throwdown on its way (below) makes a pilgrimage to Chelmsford at least once or twice a season, most spell of tuition from Alleyne before a yet through the fog of exhaustion recently to watch England’s warm- Hawk-Eye session in the Academy’s a consensus is starting to appear up before the 2013 Ashes. own performance analysis suite. about the day’s winners and losers. Behind the scenes there’s the usual There’s no doubt in my mind about hive of activity – bats to be paraded the day’s outstanding blade (see page AFF NASEEM on the catwalk and catalogued ahead 117) but it’s not an opinion which is Lord’s Cricket Store of their outing in the nets, interviews universally shared. That just goes Supervisor at the to be conducted by Dan Norcross to show, the only real way to Lord’s Cricket from Test Match Sofa, marks and fi nd out if a bat is the right one Store, A was a comments to be collated by Dan, for you is to try it out for yourself. wicketkeeper/ Benj and Dave from the magazine Turn to page 132 to fi nd out how to do batsman for editorial team. And nothing would be just that on your next visit to Lord’s. Pakistan Under- possible without the tireless efforts 19s and Surrey Academy before of MCC’s arsenal of Young Cricketers, ack in the real world, I know turning his hand to coaching. His who between them must have my brief encounter will never fi nest hour came in an innings of 174 served up some 2,500 throwdowns Bwork out. We are quite simply for Surrey Academy against Kent for our delectation. incompatible. My kitbag smells of Academy. His most memorable bat After three solid hours of tonking all things fetid and my pads alone was a Kookaburra Bubble. “Working and talking, I am spent. I’ve used would surely be a deal-breaker, at Lord’s is the dream job for me,” up as many analogies as calories in stained as they are with sweat he says. translating my deeds into words, and dust and threadbare at / thecricketer.com ■ buy at shop.lords.org > MARK ALLEYNE MCC Head Coach A Gloucestershire legend who played 10 ODIs for England, Mark has served as MCC’s Head Coach since 2009. In the wake of England’s Ashes disaster, his role in nurturing a new generation of talent has never seemed more vital.
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