Well if you are going to name something Mjolnir, then it has a lot to live up to? So does the Newbery Cricket bat live up to the title of the hammer of the Norse God Thor. Well for starters the price is likely to take a 'hammer' to your wallet. It has a RRP of £150 but if you shop around on the internet you can get one new for around £30 less. A top end version is likely to set you pack nearly £300. So why so expensive, and it is even for a bat. Well the first thing to take into account is that it has been crafted from home grown Grade 1 willow. It maintains the traditional English bat shape, so no grooves or curves. The profile is larger ensuring a greater ...  Read the complete review

My club purchased this bat as a club bat, meaning that it is placed in the club kit bag and is accessible to anyone who wants to use it. It cost the club about £170, as we brought it pre-prepared, meaning it had been knocked in and would ready for immediate use. I've used it in the nets several times and in half a dozen matches. The first I noticed was the amazing middle it has. If you stike the ball on the sweet spot the ball races off of it. You get very good value for your shots. When playing driving shots I got plenty of runs. Howver, evening though the bat is said to weigh 2.9lbs I have to say it feels a little heavier than that. The pick up is not as ...  Read the complete review

Newbery cricket bats are without doubt the finest handmade English cricket bats you are ever likely to see. Whereas other companies like Slazenger, Gray Nicholls and Duncan Fearnley have tinkered with the shapes of bats to make their bats seem lighter, without apparently jeopardising the sweetspot of the bat, Newbery have remained faithful to the traditional shaped bats and still produce incredible bats from their workshop in Robertsbridge. The company remains a small business, but this doesn't detract from their skill, in fact if anything it actually enhances their reputation, since you know that with a Newbery, the bat will have been hand-made and ...  Read the complete review

I bought my Mjolnir cricket bat about six months back from a local cricket retailer and I was very disappointed with the result. I had heard great things about this bat but it didn't live up to my expectation. **First Impression** To be honest, my first impressions of the bat were very positive, just based on purely looking at the willow and feeling it. The bat had 9 ruler straight grains (exactly what I had been looking for), the bat had a strip of heartwood down the side, which I initially wasn't a fan of when it first came out, but gradually it grew on me, so by the time I bought the bat, this didn't worry me/ **Preparing the ...  Read the complete review

When i was looking for new cricket bats i wasnt sure what to go for but eventually i went for newbery im glad i did. I organised buying the bat with a friend who has connections with newbery. When i recieved the bat i was absolutely over the moon. It had a nice traditional profile and was massive for the weight of 2.9, it had a quarter edge of heartwood and 11 ruler straight grains.You can tell that great care had been taking in the creation of the bat. When i took it out into the garden for a few throwdowns i couldnt believe it the ping was fantastic, with most companies pre-prepared is just another way of making more money, but with Newbery they really did. When our ...  Read the complete review