70 Feet of Support for Bangladesh

[Farhad]

Originally Posted by Will luke

70 feet of support for Bangladesh

Over 2 million Bangladeshis have signed a 70-foot-long cricket bat wishing their team good luck in the World Cup. "We hope more people would be interested to sign the bat after Bangladesh qualified for the Super Eights," Shafiqul Islam, a brand manager of Akiz Group, told Reuters.

"It is the biggest bat in the world and we hope it will have a place in the Guinness Book of World Records".

[Protic]

LOL ..yeah i signed the bat too.. when it was passing by "Uttara"..
:| it was huge really.

[kalpurush]

Any pic?!!!!

[Protic]

Sorry mate.. i could have just easily taken a snap..i didnt..i thought it was just a silly bat! Never realised they are thinking of a WORLD RECORD through this.. I think you'll get images of it in the internet.

[Duck]

I searched for the pic but could find.

I wish I could sign on the bat!

[Stumped]

they should send it around the world.. then they will get more signatures etc!

[Protic]

Stumped.. lol HOW exactly?
And even if they do..it will cost a LOT than they have fixed to spend..i guess.

[Stumped]

hmm i dunno... they said they wanted more signatures so thats my idea... ha ha how they do it is up to them! yeah would cost alot.. but if they its for charity then maybe it will be sent for free!

[Farhad]

Finally got a picture of it. Didnt have to look far though:

Bangladesh fans sign what is reportedly the world's longest bat (70 foot), Dhaka, April 12, 2007
© AFP

[gatekeeper]

This is great. Sign of the time I guess. This kind of sponsorship was only a dream even 6/7 years ago. Good for our cricket.

[scorpion_king]

I was also looking for the picture on the web. nice find

[Nafi]

Great now all we need is bangladeshi batsmen 180 feet tall, then who will stop us? lol

[akabir77]

can we have the bat for basher and SN?

[radagast]

Originally Posted by akabir77
can we have the bat for basher and SN?

Nayyy, the ball will still find the gap between bat and pad.

[Nafi]

Originally Posted by radagast
Nayyy, the ball will still find the gap between bat and pad.

And bashar still will get run out

[tonoy]

Originally Posted by radagast
Nayyy, the ball will still find the gap between bat and pad.

[Hatebreed]

Thanks for the picture. It's astounding there has been little or no coverage of this initiative on the world media. Surprisingly the Indians were the first to report it.

Anyway, they should display the bat on a place of interest, preferably in a museum or sporting establishment.

[Tigers_eye]

Wow!! I wish I could contribute. Anyways, in comedy scale this could be one of the funniest thread if only babu and fazal starts exploring their imagination.

[Tendulkar_Mcgrath]

I wish i could sign on that! poor me! it must be guiness record.

[sar2005]

World's Longest Cricket Bat

Very interseting! Click above link to see it. I have just found it in Cricinfo latest picture album. Does anyone know anything more on this?

[ialbd]

there is already a thread on this brother...

http://www.banglacricket.com/alochon...ad.php?t=19868

[sar2005]

Oops sorry for this.
Mod, would you please delete this thread?
Apology.

[sar2005]

Poor me too! I just now have seen the picture in cricinfo. I don't know how I overlooked this interesting thread.

Understood that this bat is built by Lemo - Akiz Group. 70 feet long and it's carried to diffent places in Bangladesh and fans are signing on it. I wonder how many people will be able to sign. This will be given to Bangladesh as a greeting. What an amazing idea!! Thanks for such a wonderful initiative.

[Kabir]

IMO, this should be placed in one of our stadiums, on top of the pavillion. Very very inspirational.

[Sovik]

wish i could sign that bat