Cricket bat finally used for some good by the Australian public

After reporting that outside of the game in Australia, the cricket bat seems to have exclusively criminal uses, it's great to be able to report a good news story about the willow from the Antipodes.

A 14-year-old boy has used a cricket bat to fight off an alleged attempted abduction after he was grabbed by the arm while walking home from school.  The young lad from Petrie, Brisbane was attacked at 3:10pm by a bloke on a bike before executing a perfect cover-drive to the man's cranium and running off.  Good work fella!

His assailant was described being as 20 to 30 years old, with an athletic build, light brown hair with blond tips, clean-shaven, with two piercings in his right ear and a Kookaburra Blade Runner shaped dent in his head.