One hundred years of willow
BDM has been making cricket bats since 1925. MJ stocks the current range in full.
Some brands arrive, make noise, and go. BDM has been shaping willow since 1925 — through partition, through the arrival of one-day cricket, through T20, through every change in how the game is played. A century of pressing bats teaches you things that cannot be shortcut.
That is the whole pitch. Not novelty. Not a name borrowed from somewhere else. A hundred years of making the same thing properly.
Built for the middle
Every BDM bat is cut from English willow, spliced to a cane handle, pressed, and knocked in before it is boxed. It arrives with a toe guard fitted, an anti-scuff sheet on, and a carry cover in the box. You are not buying a project. You are buying a bat that is ready for nets the day it lands.
The ranges are built around how people actually bat. The Dynamic series carries the bowed Asian profile with weight moved for pick-up. The Extra Thick Bulge bats carry deep edges for players who back themselves through the line. The 20-20 specials are cut for a format that rewards taking it on. Gloves, pads and keeping gear follow the same naming, so a Dynamic Super glove sits beside a Dynamic Super pad.
A bat in a museum
In 1987 BDM developed a new bat profile for the shorter format — the shape that much of the industry in India and abroad went on to follow. According to BDM’s own catalogue, that profile was developed with Sir Gordon Greenidge, and a bat from that period was presented to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and kept in the museum collection.
It is a good story, and it points at something real: this is a maker that has been in the room while the game changed, not one that turned up afterwards.
Bat to bails
The catalogue runs the full length of a kit bag. Bats, batting gloves, batting leg guards, wicket-keeping gloves and pads, helmets, thigh and chest guards, kit bags, stumps, and the training gear that runs a net session. One maker, one standard, one place to buy it.
Which matters more than it sounds. Gear from six different brands fits together badly and wears at different rates. A full kit from one maker does not.
Where to start
New to the range? Bats first — the Dynamic Power series if you want pick-up and control, the Extra Thick Bulge range if you want edges. Then gloves and pads in the matching series. Sizing help is a message away; tell us your height and how you play and we will point you at the right one.
