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Gray-Nicolls Blitz 500 Ready Play Junior Cricket Bat – English Willow Junior Bat
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🏏 Gray-Nicolls Blitz 500 Ready Play Junior Cricket Bat – English Willow Junior Bat
The Gray-Nicolls Blitz 500 Ready Play Junior Cricket Bat is a quality junior English willow cricket bat designed for young players who want a light pickup, fast hands and confident stroke play.
Made from English Willow, the Blitz 500 Junior Bat offers strong value for developing cricketers moving into hard-ball cricket and looking for better feel, balance and performance at the crease.
With a mid-high profile, rounded POWERCURVE face, large edges and a lightweight pickup, this junior bat is ideal for players who like to drive, cut, pull and play attacking cricket with control.
This is a Ready Play cricket bat, meaning it has been factory prepared to reduce preparation time. However, additional knocking-in and gradual net use with an older ball is still recommended before full match use against a leather cricket ball.
- Willow Grade: Entry-level English Willow.
- Profile: Mid-high profile
- Bow: Even bow / ultra bow
- Face: Rounded POWERCURVE face
- Pickup: Light pickup / balanced junior feel
- Edges: Large edges
- Sweet Spot: Mid to high sweet spot
- Handle: Junior handle
- Grip: Gray-Nicolls grip
- Toe: Toe protection applied
- Finish: Ready Play finish
- Preparation: Factory prepared with face protection; additional knocking-in and gradual net use recommended
- Cover: Bat cover included
- Use: Junior cricket batting, training, nets and match play after final preparation
- Benefit: Light pickup, fast hands, balance, power and junior batting confidence
- Player Level: Junior, school, club and developing hard-ball cricketers
- English Willow construction for junior performance and strong value
- Mid-high profile suited to attacking stroke play and confident front-foot shots
- Rounded POWERCURVE face to enhance feel and response through the ball
- Large edges to create a generous junior hitting zone
- Light pickup to help young players generate faster bat speed
- Balanced junior shape designed for control, timing and clean ball striking
- Ready Play preparation to reduce preparation time before use
- Factory fitted protection including face protection and toe protection, verify against selected stock
- Ideal for developing batters who want confidence in hard-ball cricket
- Trusted Gray-Nicolls quality for school, club and junior cricket
- Junior cricketers
- School cricket players
- Junior club batters
- Developing hard-ball cricket players
- Young players wanting an English willow junior cricket bat
- Batters who prefer a mid to high sweet spot
- Players wanting a light pickup and quick hands
- Attacking junior players who like to drive, cut and pull
- Training sessions, net practice and match play after final preparation
- Families looking for a quality Gray-Nicolls junior cricket bat
Choosing a cricket bat comes down to four things: size, weight, willow and how it feels in your hands.
- Size: most adults use a Short Handle bat. For juniors, choose by height, and if they're between sizes, go smaller.
- Weight: pick the heaviest bat you can swing comfortably for a whole innings, not the heaviest you can lift.
- Willow: English willow is lighter and livelier for hard-ball cricket. Kashmir willow is tougher and more affordable, great for a first bat.
- Knocking in: a new English willow bat needs knocking in before you face a leather ball, unless it's sold as Play Now or Match Ready.
Read the full cricket bat buying guide
Prefer to talk it through? Visit us at Western Sports Centre in Derrimut or call 0450 227 972.
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