Traditional woods have had a good innings but rising temperatures mean the need to find alternatives is pressing ...

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 ...

Mohammad Shafi Dar, 55, picks up a piece of willow, called a cleft, and places it on a vertical bandsaw to cut out a V-joint from the wooden block before passing it on to one of his colleagues, ...

In Halmulla in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, larger-than-life pictures of cricket stars such as Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohil, M.S. Dhoni, Shahid Afridi, and Babar Azam line the bat shops on ...

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 ...

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