Paul Harris’s cartoon drawing of young boys playing bat and ball as the junior batsman dreams of graduating to CPL wonderfully complemented the joy and love of cricket captured by Garnett-Williams.

"For the average person, what it means is if you lower the swing weight of a bat, your batted ball speed goes down a little bit," Smith says. Of course, major league hitters are not average people.

That was, of course, until Paul ... the ball,” Turner said. Turner, though, said he was open to trying the torpedo. “For bats to be the hot topic out in the zeitgeist is cool,” Smith said.

The goal is to bring more wood and mass to the part of the bat that makes most contact with the ball, according to Smith, so that the ... inning home runs hit by Paul Goldschmidt, then Cody ...