Cricket bats are made from willow, with English willow and Kashmir ... Press your thumbnail gently into the face of the bat. If it leaves a visible impression, the wood is relatively soft and ...

Accordingly, it is always interesting to take a closer look into how the cricket bat evolved throughout centuries. Early Days: The Simple Willow In the early 18th century, the cricket bat bore ...

Considering the number of bats modern cricketers use, if David Warner hadn’t played cricket, there would have been a willow forest in New South Wales. Warner isn't the only modern cricketer to ...

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 ...

While making a cricket bat is labour-intensive, the high price is due to the unique wood used to make these highest-quality bats. The willow is shipped halfway across the world to India from the UK.

Lines of shops display neat stacks of willow wood along a nondescript motorway in Indian-controlled Kashmir's Sangam village. Kashmir's cricket bat industry manufactures nearly 1 million bats each ...

Kashmir-made bats are back in action in the international cricketing world, after a gap of seven decades. Several cricket playing nations have agreed to procure Kashmir willow bats for ICC mega ...

The 102-year-old cricket bat industry in Kashmir has upped its standards over the years to compete with manufacturers that work with the fabled English willow. But bat-makers fear a shortage of ...