The 8-metre-tall bat was constructed by Tony Poad, who has revived the local general store into not only a thriving mixed business, but also a cricketing museum. Although the museum is located at the general store, the Big Cricket Bat is situated at the local cricket ground.
Accompanying the Bat is the world’s first known cricket oval cricket bat fence, which is essentially the boundary picket fence with the top and bottom rails made out of normal planks and the vertical pickets are cricket bats. The fence is unfinished in 2025, and it is assessed that the builders need approximately 2,000 more bats to complete the project.
