In recent times the Twenty20 format has distilled cricket down to a new essence, with a simple tactic: attack the ball at all costs to score as many runs as quickly as possible. The Mongoose is an attacking response to the way Twenty20 is played and is as startling an innovation as Twenty20 cricket itself. The Mongoose hits harder than conventional bats by combining bat-speed and a unique weight distribution to increase the impact between bat and ball.

The Mongoose cricket bat’s extra power comes from increased rigidity in the blade and increased flexibility in the handle – so you can hit further and harder. The blade is 33 per cent shorter than a conventional bat and the handle is 43 per cent longer. This allows increased leverage that makes the bat quicker and easier to manoeuvre, allowing you to select your shot later, or change it in a split second.

Scentists call it the bat’s MMi, or ‘mass and moment of inertia’. It determines the amount of effort required by the batsman not only to swing, but also control the bat during the swing. This makes the Mongoose a lighter, harder-hitting bat. And while it looks different to a conventional long-blade bat, when you pick it up its weight and handling feel pretty much the same.

The splice, usually located in the blade of the bat, is incorporated into the handle, which ensures there is no dead spot in the hitting area of the bat.

The Mongoose also reconfigures the shoulders by dropping them down nine inches. The weight taken from the shoulders – about 20 per cent of the blade weight – is redistributed to the back of the new, shorter blade. This allows the sweet spot to double in size, including in the previously defensive toe area, and for the profile of the bat to be increased throughout, with a redistribution of weight across a greater area of the bat.

With a Mongoose you’re packing unprecedented power that will give you the edge: more fours, more sixes, more balls out of the ground.

And in Twenty20, that makes you the winner.