Experts explain the price increases for cricket bats made from English willow. It has been dubbed “the cricket bat emergency”, as the price of bats has skyrocketed over the past few years. According ...

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 ...

Cricket loves its laws – or ‘Laws’, as some prefer – and law 5.3.2. seems as certain as the sun rising in the east: ‘The blade shall consist solely of wood.’ But for how much longer? In late August, ...

Professional cricketers have been urged to rethink how many bats they are churning through amid a ‘cricket bat emergency’ caused by ...

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 ...