http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/07/20/inigo-thomas/kahuna-chaos/ The Blog of the London Review of Books Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/07/20/inigo-thomas/kahuna-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Martin Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:19:42 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1100#comment-90 Although, if you allow T20 to count as cricket, David Warner, the young Australian batsman, did use a double-sided bat earlier this year - perfect for reverse sweeps. Oddly, Gray-Nicholls, the manufacturers of this bat and Xiphos, missed out on the chance to name it Xiphos, preferring the more prosaic Dual T20. Either way Warner used it to great effect, clobbering 65 runs including four sixes. Apparently the first double-sided bats were made in India in the early 1980s. But unless you're KP you'd probably still use both hands. Although, if you allow T20 to count as cricket, David Warner, the young Australian batsman, did use a double-sided bat earlier this year – perfect for reverse sweeps. Oddly, Gray-Nicholls, the manufacturers of this bat and Xiphos, missed out on the chance to name it Xiphos, preferring the more prosaic Dual T20. Either way Warner used it to great effect, clobbering 65 runs including four sixes.
Apparently the first double-sided bats were made in India in the early 1980s. But unless you’re KP you’d probably still use both hands.

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