West Indies power-hitter & Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) allrounder Andre Russell is in prime form and he is making headlines with his performance in the IPL 2024. Andre Russell, famous by the name of 'Dre Russ', has muscled the ball out of the park whenever he has gotten the opportunity to bat for KKR in IPL 2024. Courtesy of his all-round performance, KKR has won 3 out of their 3 matches. The Shah Rukh Khan-owned team has been on fire and is among the top contenders to win the IPL 2024. Recently, Andre Russell inspected his new bats which he got from manufacturers and the cricketer did not seem happy at all. KKR shared Andre Russell's video inspecting his bats.
Sharing the video, KKR wrote, "Dre Russ’ bats go through a weight training too". In the video, Dre Russ can be seen weighing each bat that he got from the manufacturers. One of Russell's bats weighed 1299 gms. Another bat weighed at 1315 gms. One more bat weighed at 1299 gms. Unhappy after holding the bat, Dre Russ said, "I don't feel like that, though. This feels heavier. I want to take this (bat portion) off. This is heavy. Feel the bat. And then feel this one. So, even though this is saying it's lighter, it's heavier than this, which is weird."
Now, the question arises what is Andre Russell's bat weight that he prefers? True Scoop News tried to dig more and going by SS's official website, the West Indies allrounder uses a bat weighing between 1150 to 1190 grams.
For the unversed, Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is still at the top in terms of using the heaviest bats. As per reports, Sachin used to play with MRF and Adidas bats. And the weight of his cricket bat is 1.47 kg, the heaviest of all.
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