After the resounding success of "What's Inside a Cricket Ball?" it is time for round two of this fascinating series—how are cricket bats made? In his play The Real Thing, the Czech-born English ...

When it comes to cricket bats, it may actually be a grass -- not a wood. This is an Inside Science story. The crack of a bat as it strikes a ball is the sound of summer in both the United States and ...

Cricket has undergone a revolutionize transformation, especially in batting style and equipment. The sport today is all about power-hitting, with the batsmen relying on sturdy bats to smash balls long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every cricketer needs The Right Bat. It's his most trusted companion. Traditionally carved from top-quality willow, famous bat-makers, source the bulk of their willow wood from Kashmir. The coveted ...