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 ...

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Professional cricketers have been urged to rethink how many bats they are churning through amid a ‘ cricket bat emergency’ caused by an increasing shortage of willow. MCC recently hosted a conference ...

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 ...

About 30 minutes south of the MCG, in the bayside suburb of Cheltenham, sits a lesser-known mecca to the sport: the Gray Nicolls “bat mill”. Since 1972, it’s been the birthplace of the great Aussie ...