The change allows laminated bats to be used in recreational cricket, making them "more affordable".

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 ...

Nestled amid 73 tweaks to the laws of cricket last month was a change to the very nature of bats that many hope will arrest a ...

For roughly two hundred years, cricketers across the world have almost exclusively walked out to the crease and taken their guard with bats made of the finest English willow - but that is now set to ...

Unlike modern tennis or badminton racquets, the cricket bat is still strictly made of wood. Other tweaks though allow those massive hits Cricket has advanced in so many ways but the equipment used by ...

Cricket - England v India - Second One Day International - Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, Britain - July 14, 2018 General view of the Marylebone Cricket Club logo Action Images via Reuters/Peter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cricket has been played with English willow bats for two centuries [Getty Images] For roughly two hundred years, cricketers across ...

Cricket bats previously deemed illegal for adult amateur players are to be permitted after a change in the law brought about by the rising cost of English willow. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), ...