Cricket Bat

The Cricket Bat is a new close combat weapon introduced in Left 4 Dead 2.

The cricket bat has unlimited uses, and can be carried for an unlimited time. It kills all Common Infected in one hit, along with all Special Infected minus the Tank and the Witch. The cricket bat is carried in the same slot as the pistols, adding yet another tactical choice to make in the game. When dropped, it can be picked up again.

The cricket bat should not be used against Boomers, for obvious reasons. It should also not be used for chasing Special Infected, despite the one-hit-kill.

The cricket bat is a bludgeoning weapon, and has the ability to kill whether or not a headshot was achieved. It can cause friendly fire damage to the Survivors.

The cricket bat is not really meant to be used against Special Infected, because using it on a Boomer would cover you in bile, and killing a Spitter would leave you right in the middle of the goo. Using on a Charger, Jockey, Hunter, or Smoker, it would take time to reach them. Against a Tank or Witch it would do little to no damage.

Trivia

 * The cricket bat is the fifth close combat weapon to be revealed.
 * Judging by the other close combat weapons' location, it is possibly found near a cricket field that the Survivors might be passing by.
 * Shaun, the main character of the movie Shaun of the Dead used a cricket bat as a weapon against the zombies. The cricket bat's inclusion in Left 4 Dead 2 may reference to this.
 * It is possible that there are campaign specific skins of the cricket bat. In the Feature Video on the German L4D page, there is a scene in which a survivor has a cricket bat with wrapping reading 'sale' all over it, fighting in dead centre, the videos we have of swamp feaver show an older, yellow and black cricket bat. and the one image of the parish shows a white cricket bat with a blue logo Just out of view.