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In Britain, Cricket is a very popular game among other games. Two teams are involved in this game. They have a team of 11 players. The game of cricket is loved worldwide. In countries like India and Pakistan, it is considered as a ‘religion’. Cricket involves just two simple gears that include bats and balls. Extra bits of cricket supplies that are required include stumps and sightscreen. The game also has some equipment necessary for the safety of cricketers. These include helmets, batting gloves, mouthpiece and wicket keeping gloves.

In order to make cricket balls, cork base is generally used, which is covered with first twine and finally with red and white leather on its top layer. Bat is another important cricket equipment, that needs to be taken care of before and after its use.

You will be surprised to know that even a new bat needs maintenance in order to make it apt for use on the ground. Bats are generally used to knock down shots, even before you get onto the field. It will protect it from being damaged. You should be very careful while using bats during full swing. There are certain steps that should be followed, which will give you desired results.

You can use a coating of linseed oil on bats. You should let the bat absorb it for a few hours. Then once again, you should use a layer of oil on it. It is necessary that you grease the bat adequately. However, you should check that oil is not excessively used on it.

The next step is to hit a wooden knocking mallet on the bat for about 10-15 times, you will notice few dents but it is quite normal. Ensure that you are not hitting the wooden mallet on the back of cricket bat, use the wooden knocking mallet, and they are available in many sport equipment stores at affordable price. Repeat the session of knocking with the wooden mallet for about 10-15 times for a number of days until the bat has received minimum of about 3-4 hours of knocking session. It is important to remember that you grease the bat before every knocking session begins with linseed oil.

Hit the edges gently with the knocking mallet till the edges obtain a round shape. It is important that you need to maintain your bat before you start playing for the final matches, so use the bat for practice sessions first before you land in the ground for the final countdown.

Bats are valuable equipments and your match performance depends a lot on the kind of cricket bats that you use. Hence, adequate maintenance of cricket bats is of vital importance particularly before you start using it.