What was wrong with this?

Question

Dear Friends,

Here is an interesting question:

1. What is this?

2. Who used it/

3. Why was it considered a contravention to Law 6 of the Cricket 2000 Code 2nd Edition ?

I have included the object and reference to the cricket law here:

http://rehmanofmultan.blogspot.com/

Please DO NOT change your first answer. If you do so please place an EDIT, I will give points for this answer but I will not be able to see you all in a while.

Till then.

Khuda hafiz and peace.

Rehman of Multan

Answer 1

Hi,

That was a bat by Kookabura which had a heavy graphite content used by Ricky Ponting....

Cheers

Answer 2

That doesn't look like a wooden blade. We have a similar rule in paddling - in some competitions you can use carbon fibre blades, in others they have to be wood.

Answer 3

1. Its a Kookaburra cricket bat ???

2. Ricky Ponting along with his Australia team-mate Justin Langer, Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya and New Zealand's Nathan Astle used it.

3.The problem with this bat was the graphite content in it was exceeding the permissible limit.

In 2005, while using the bat, Ponting became the world's top-ranked batsman and played his 100th Test, enjoying a run-glut that recently saw him awarded the Allan Border medal for Australia's player of the year.

He hit 1,596 Test runs with seven centuries and also scored 1,137 runs in one-day internationals, with another two hundreds, using this bat.

Answer 4

I remeber this siituation.This was in 2005. That's was the new Kookbura bat (at the time which was used by Australian captain Ricky Ponting. I think bat was coated with graphite which is in direct contravention to  (1) in Law 6 "The blade of the bat shall be made solely of wood"

So he was forced to change the bat!