Age
17
The first bat.
Borrowed. Taped twice. Two sizes too big. You didn’t care — you just wanted to bat, and you didn’t go home till the streetlights came on.
Live · Final over19.0 ov
TARGET180
SCORE144/6
NEED36/6
A 35-inch Kashmiri willow bat for tennis-ball cricket. Under a kilo, long in the handle, and built for the over where everyone else has already given up.
- Length
- 35in
- Handle
- 11in
- Weight
- <1kg
- Width
- 4in
Over 01 — The story
They said, “Hang it up.”
He re-gripped it.
It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday. The ground is someone’s parking lot. The stumps are a crate. The opener is 41. He has a meeting at ten. The bowler is 52. His knees have opinions. Nobody here is getting picked for anything. They play anyway. Not because they’re winning. Because they don’t know how to stop — not when the body says so, not when the score says so, not when life says so.
Age is a number.
So is the target.
* not out
Age
41
The second innings.
Office all week, EMIs every month, kids’ homework every night. And every Sunday, you still pad up first and walk out to open.
Age
52*
Still not out.
Grey in the beard, grandkids at the boundary rope. Still asking the captain for the last over. Still believing 36 off 6 is on.
This bat is for them.
For everyone who has been written off — by the scoreboard, by the selectors, by the calendar — and walked out to bat anyway.
A dropped catch. A lost job. A long injury. A year that went wrong. They come back. They always come back. That’s the whole story of COMBCK: two letters missing, nothing given up.
Neverbackout.
Over 02 — Anatomy
35 inches of
second chances.
A full-size bat for adult players. The 11-inch handle gives more reach and leverage on lofted shots, and the 24-inch blade keeps the middle right where the ball arrives.
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8.5 in sticker
4 IN WIDE24 in blade
11 in handle
35 in full length
35 in full length
11 in handle
8.5 in
sticker
sticker
24 in blade
4 in
- Full length
- 35 inches
- Handle
- 11 inches
- Blade
- 24 × 4 inches
- Weight
- Under 1000 g
- Willow
- Kashmiri
- Ball
- Tennis / tape ball
- Sticker
- 8.5 × 4 inches
- Grip
- Black, textured
35 in
Full size
Made for adult players. The extra length adds reach for drives and big hits down the ground.
11 in
Long handle
Grip it high for power over the top, or choke down for control in the gaps.
<1000 g
Light pick-up
A light bat comes through faster, so you can wait longer and still swing hard.
Over 03 — The Willow
Grown in Kashmir.
Made for the street.
Kashmiri willow is dense and tough, which is exactly what tennis-ball and tape-ball cricket asks for. It takes the knocks of a hard-taped ball, match after match, and the grain on the face is the wood itself — no paint, no cover-up.
- 01
Dense, durable grain
Holds up to taped balls and concrete pitches.
- 02
Light pick-up
Under 1000 g, so the bat comes through fast.
- 03
Long 11-inch handle
More reach and leverage when you go over the top.
Over 04 — Ping test
Tap the blade.
Hear the middle.
“Ping” is how hard the ball jumps off the bat. Tap anywhere on the blade: the sweet spot rings loud and sends the ball flying, while the toe and shoulder just thud. Turn your sound on.
● Tap anywhere on the blade
← ToeMiddleShoulder
Ready
Ping
Impact—
ZoneTap to test
Sound and rebound are a simulation that shows how ping changes along the blade.
Over 05 — Weight
<1000g
Light enough for the last-over swing.
Over 06 — Final over
Six balls.
Thirty-six runs.
Your move.
COMBCK Edition 01
Kashmiri Willow Tennis Bat
$2,499.00
- 35 in
- 11 in handle
- < 1000 g
- Kashmiri willow
Delivery: Pan-India shipping · Questions? DM @combck