Kookaburra Sport Kookaburra Sport Kookaburra is an Australian sports equipment company, specialising in cricket and field hockey equipment, named after the Australian kingfisher. The company notably manufactures the most widely used brand of ball used in One-day internationals and Test cricket. The company was founded in 1890 as A.G. Thompson Pty Ltd by Alfred Grace Thompson, a migrant harness and saddle maker who turned to manufacturing cricket balls when his livelihood was threatened by the advent of the motor car. In the mid-1980s, the company diversified into manufacturing the full range of cricket bats, clothing, footwear and protective equipment. In addition to
Kookaburra Kahuna forms of cricket, making it a bat which dominates the vast majority of others. The Kahuna is similar in its characteristics to the Kookaburra Beast. However, the Kahuna still features being made of the highest grade of English willow, has a twelve-piece Sarawak cane handle, an octopus grip and weighs between 2 lb 7oz and 3 lb 4oz. Its pick-up is relatively superior to other Kookaburra range bats, and provides the force required to dwarf even the largest boundaries, a characteristic which is distinctive to the Kahuna. In late 2005, the MCC scrutinized Ricky Ponting's use of the Kahuna, after