SANGAM, India (AP) — Lines of shops display neat stacks of willow wood along a nondescript motorway in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Sangam village. Behind the shops are small manufacturing units, where ...

POCOS DE CALDAS, Brazil (Reuters) - 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. Matt ...

In a workshop with a stunning view of the mountains of southeastern Brazil, self-taught carpenter Luiz Roberto Francisco is chipping at a piece of pine and turning it into a rare artifact for this ...

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 ...

PARTNER CONTENT: Inside the Australia workshop where five craftsmen produce 6000 cricket bats a year, including $2500 collector's items sought after by the game's biggest stars. About 30 minutes south ...

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 ...