Traditionally carved from top-quality willow, famous bat-makers, source the bulk of their willow wood from Kashmir.

Kashmir's iconic willow trees, essential for crafting high-quality cricket bats, are on the brink of extinction, raising alarms for nearly 1.5 lakh job opportunities to artisans or workers, and the ...

t present, Kashmir produces three million bats annually, which is a fifteen-fold increase in 10 years. | Image courtesy of Fawzul Kabiir, via Mongabay. Cricket was introduced to India over a century ...

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 ...

It has been dubbed “the cricket bat emergency”, as the price of bats has skyrocketed over the past few years. According to the managing director of D&P Cricket, Paul Borst, a top bat from this leading ...

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 ...

A recurrent grumble during the recent England–India series concerned the state of the Dukes ball, with fingers pointed in every direction – including at the Aberdeen Angus cows who supply the leather.

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Peterborough Telegraph, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. The ten trees were specifically planted ...

This marks a fascinating intersection of the natural world, literary heritage, and the sport of cricket, given also Soulton Hall's historical connection to Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde, the source ...

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 ...

Kashmir’s iconic willow trees, essential for crafting high-quality cricket bats, are on the brink of extinction, raising alarms for nearly 1.5 lakh job opportunities to artisans or workers, and the ...