January 6, 2011

The Edge - innovation or gimmick?

Following on from the Dual T20 (double sided bat), GN have produced another novelty bat called The Edge for 2011.  Is this another case of letting the Marketing Department sniff glue once again?

The GN marketeers make a worthy opening line for The Edge, "Gray Nicolls continues to innovate the bat making process to keep pace with an ever changing game". Nothing wrong in that, although I thinks this innovation is more like the 'innovations' that appeared in the erstwhile Innovations Catalogue, which was full of things that were novel but mostly pointless. This is why I used the word novelty bat earlier.  It is in no way a genuine innovation.