Kashmir cricket bat industry stakeholders have approached the Kashmir government for help, as 50 out of 400 factories have closed workshops because they are out of raw materials.

Ever since the 1890s, cricket bats 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 ...

As cricket's appetite for bats surges, the game's most sacred tree faces the game's growth, shorter growing cycles, and ...

Cricket's crackdown on 'monster' bats. ... When each new batter arrives at the crease, he must insert his bat into a "rectangular implement" with a cut-out shaped like a house.

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 own.

Clefts are pieces of wood that are cut along the grain of a tree and eventually shaped into bats. Bat makers at Anantnag district in Kashmir are urging the government to plant more willow trees to ...