India is home to a number of the top cricket-bat manufacturers, including Sareen Sports, SS. But the wood used to make the highest-quality bats needs to be shipped halfway across the globe from ...

Darshil U. Shah receives funding from ERDF (Interreg France-Channel England) and BEIS. For nearly 200 years, willow has been the principal material used in the production of cricket bats. English ...

Cricket loves its laws – or ‘Laws’, as some prefer – and law 5.3.2. seems as certain as the sun rising in the east: ‘The blade shall consist solely of wood.’ But for how much longer? In late August, ...

With an estimated 2.5 billion fans globally, cricket is one of the most popular sports in the world. Having originated in 16th century England, the sport spread to several English colonies where it ...

The willow from Farndon Willow Holt produces "strong durable timber", Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust said Timber from trees in a nature reserve in Nottinghamshire has been harvested to produce cricket ...

SOME of the world's top cricketers will soon be playing with bats made from wood grown in North Yorkshire. The historic Newburgh Priory Estate, near Coxwold, not far from York, has been growing ...

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) this week hosted a Cricket Bat Conference at Lord’s, which brought together key stakeholders in the game to discuss the future of bat-making in the sport, in response to ...

Ever since the 1890s, cricket bat blades have been made of willow wood. According to a new study, however, bamboo bats should offer better performance and a lower environmental footprint, plus they ...

Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better 'sweet spot' and deliver more energy to the ball than those made from traditional willow, tests conducted by the University of Cambridge show. Bamboo ...

POCOS DE CALDAS, Brazil, May 21 (Reuters) - When Brazil's rapidly growing cricket programme threatened to run out of bats, the solution was both simpler and harder than anyone anticipated: make your ...

Timber from trees in a nature reserve in Nottinghamshire has been harvested to produce cricket bats. The Farndon Willow Holt reserve, near Newark, has produced a crop of cricket bat willows which will ...