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Updated · 37 sticks reviewed, 3 hands-on · 49 profiles · 192 nations ranked

Our top stick

Tested 6 sessions · water-based ·

The Grays GR 9000 Probow in fluoro yellow, head and shaft, cut out.

Best for Attack

Grays

Probow GR

9.1Out of 10

Lowest bow here, biggest target on an aerial, and the flick whip everyone wants. Hard ground will punish your reverse hits.

Power
9
Reception
6
Reverse
7
Aerials
10
Feel
8
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Where do you play?

Turf most weeks

Stick history

The Grays GR 9000 Probow in fluoro yellow, head and shaft, cut out.

We’d buy

Grays GR 9000 Probow

Probow · GR

Lowest bow here, so the flick whip and the aerials come almost free. Water-based turf is where it belongs.

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What the internationals play

Kit printed only where it is sourced · 12 of 49 confirmed

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World rankings

FIH ranking · updated

Men

  1. 1Germany3,720.4 points
  2. 2Belgium3,692.9 points
  3. 3Australia3,583.2 points
  4. 4Argentina3,512.3 points
  5. 5Netherlands3,481.3 points

Women

  1. 1Netherlands4,083.1 points
  2. 2Argentina3,757.0 points
  3. 3Belgium3,494.7 points
  4. 4China3,118.3 points
  5. 5Spain3,089.9 points
All 104 men’s & 88 women’s nations