Mongoose Long Handle Cricket Bat. Former australian opener matthew hayden created a new sensation when he first introduced the mongoose bat in the indian premier league almost a decade ago. The bat used by the former chennai super kings batsman featured a long handle which decreased the striking surface in order to maximise the effect of the bottom hand.
Mongoose cricket bats mmi3 the mongoose mmi3 cricket bat incorporates a shorter blade and a longer handle producing 20 more power than a conventional cricket bat. The handle is as long as the blade and the splice which. As you can see the bat sacrifices blade length in order to pack more meat in it.
Created and manufactured by the british company mongoose this was one of the changes that followed the inception of cricket s shortest form the t20.
For the uninitiated the mongoose is a something of a miniature version of a normal cricket bat but it has two distinguishing features. It isn t banned neither by the bcci nor by the icc nor by any cricket board. Mongoose bat the latest blog post from hattrick the hat trick delivery 23 march 2010 bigcricket takes a look at innovations in the game in particular the mongoose bat. The first time the cricketing world got to see this bat in action was in ipl 2010.
