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 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, ...

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 ...

University of Technology Sydney provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Ahead of the start of the 2018-19 Big Bash League season comes news of a radical change that will bring a ...

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 ...

At the pinnacle of cricket memorabilia stands Sir Donald Bradman's legendary bat from the 1934 Ashes Series. Crafted by the prestigious William Sykes & Son, this bat was wielded by the Australian ...