Gray-Nicolls Neocore 500 Cricket Bat (2025)

Made from Grade 2 English Willow.

After four years of research and development, player testing and industry feedback, Gray-Nicolls is proud to introduce the cricketing world to NEOCORE.

With a revolutionary cored internal scoop and new patented handling technology, the NEOCORE offers full profile bats with no concaving and dense, player grade willow, all with an unparalleled lightweight pick-up. Because of this, you need to deduct around 2-3 oz off the actual weight of the bats shown to give you the real pick-up weight. NEOCORE gives you a bat will far more wood where it is needed but with a lighter pick-up due to the higher balance point.

The incredible new handle design moves away from centuries of tradition and replaces the splice with a pinned handle.

The pinned handle inserts into the core of the bat, which when coupled with the thicker shoulders of NEOCORE creates a very strong and rigid joint.

The NEOCORE features a groundbreaking innovation: a cored internal scoop.

This internal scoop allows us to redistribute mass towards the handle, which gives an improved pick-up and an increase in perimeter weighting.

With the innovative new handle design and bat shaping, we've moved the mass higher up the bat.

With this new mass distribution we've lowered the moment of inertia when striking the ball.

Lowering the moment of inertia gives you more control over your swing and increases your bat speed, giving you maximum momentum through the ball and therefore increased power and potentially improved performance.

The cored internal scoop within the NEOCORE blade increases the perimiter weighting of the cricket bat.

Perimeter weighting disperses mass away from the middle to the edges of the bat, reducing bat twisting and improving overall control.

The cored internal scoop allows us to make cricket bats using denser willow, which enables us to offer cricketers bigger profiles and optimised performance.

Cricketers are often guided by their preferred weight for a cricket bat.

That all changes with NEOCORE.

Now, the pick-up weight of the bat is markedly lighter in feel compared to the weight on the scales.

In most cases, a NEOCORE bat will show between 2-3oz heavier on the scale than it feels in the hand.

So when you order a NEOCORE online you will be choosing based on "Pick-Up Weight", while in-store we urge you to pick up a bat to choose the right NEORCORE FOR YOU.