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 Kookaburra Kahuna The Kahuna is a range of bats made by Kookaburra Sport and is the company's sole premier bat line. The Kahuna Icon faced controversy in early 2006 when there was a dispute over whether the graphite backing of the bat would increase its performance to an unfair level, as compared to even other bats such as the Kookaburra Beast, to which it is often compared. This led to the Marylebone Cricket Club, the copyright holder to the laws of cricket, ruling the bat ineligible for use in international test matches. Its use is still permitted in all other