Slazenger Power Blade Cricket Bat

Author's product rating:   

Power	Excellent
Control	Good
Comfort	Good
Durability	Good
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	Nice power to weight ratio
Disadvantages:	Grip can feel a little loose

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Just bought this bat ready for the new summer season and I must say I?m very impressed.

Weight wise it?s nice and light, although a tad heavier towards the toe, obviously for power purposes although the heavier end allows for a nice heavy swing with less effort in the elbows and wrists.

If the bat is 100% with 0% being by the handle and 100% being the toe. The sweetest spot is at about 80%, although the bat is actually quite thin the sweet spot covers the entire face area around the sweet spot. I think this is because of the flatness of the bat this far down. As most cricket bats have a curve like a road where it?s higher in the middle and curves off towards the edges. Although at the sweet spot it seems to be flatter than anywhere else on the bat.

Grip is very good; the grip provided with the bat is strong enough, although there are better ones out there on the market.

How does it help my game?

Well on a bright Sunday morning I come out to bat at the nice run requiring spot of number 3. I've always struggled to hit sixes however, I'll admit I'm not the strongest person in the world so any time I needed power I needed a heavy bat, but I was always too slow to move it so would either miss the ball completely or just end up slicing it to where I didn't want the ball to go (generally into a fielders hand). So I really enjoyed the way this bat allows me to make some powerful shots without being TOO heavy. Don't get me wrong its not a feather but its lighter than just about every power bat out there, and I would hazard to say that it can potentially provide just as much power as the top range power bats.

Overall I would definitely recommend this bat to any opening or lower middle order batsmen.