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 ...

The cricket bat industry is not just interesting, but unique. The best willow comes from England and one supplier, JS Wright, has dominated the trade for almost 150 years. He produces and sells ...

Finished cricket bats are seen inside a factory in Sangam, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 22, 2022. Kashmir’s dwindling willow plantations are impacting the region’s famed ...

Cricket faces an existential crisis in the near future, and it has little to do with the future of the Test or ODI formats in ...

Many of the world’s greatest cricketers will soon be playing with bats made from willow grown at the Newburgh Priory Estate in North Yorkshire. The estate, near Coxwold, has been growing cricket ...

Willows, grown in the woodland linked to Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy 'As You Like It', have just been felled, embarking on their journey to become elite cricket bats.

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 ...

IN Forestry Commission Bulletin No. 17 (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1946) the cultivation of the cricket bat willow is described. The tree willows are divided into two groups. In the first ...

Kashmir’s dwindling willow plantations are impacting the region’s famed cricket bat industry and risking the supply of cricket bats in India, where the sport is hugely followed.