We’ve covered the factories in India previously, with a number of photos. Now thanks to Josh Gavan, a member of the Cricket Insight forum, we have an 11 minute long video which Josh filmed on a recent trip to the Anthem Sports factory in Jalandhar. The final product and workmanship is amazing, considering the limited [...]

Apr 10, 2012

The story, of Salix, began when Andrew Kember was in his mid teens, he aquired wood, cane, rubber and made his first cricket bat. Robertsbridge based Podshaver, John Newbery was so impressed with what he saw that he took Kember on as his apprentice in 1984. Kember went on to gain further experience at Gray [...]

Feb 10, 2012

New boys on the block Mars Cricket, show us around their very own factory out in Pakistan. Based in Middlesex, Mars Cricket offers four ranges of kit, the Classic Prestige, Prestige, Virtue and Caliber. All the gear is avaliable now at www.marscricket.co.uk

Jan 23, 2012

Last week, Gray Nicolls released a video of, England international, Alistair Cook having a go at making a bat at their Robertsbridge headquarters under the watchful eye of head batmaker John Gasson. Although Cook’s attempt was a little rough around the edges, towards the end of the video he is seen stickering up the bat [...]

We estimate that 90% of cricket bats are made in India, by such companies as FC Sondhi, SS and SG. They produce bats under their own label to sell in local markets as well as for other companies such as Slazenger and Puma. In this video the Cricket Show take a look at FC Sondhi, [...]

Sep 28, 2011

This video, directed by Tom Nichols, demonstrates through the medium of video how the Kookaburra ball is made. It’s a rather arty film and is in interesting take on the many documentaries we’ve seen about Cricket Ball manufacturing.

A couple of years ago, I took the opportunity to fly out to India and spend approximately 2 months working inside a cricket bat factory in Meerut. Coming into the factory everyday was always an experience as was spending time in the factory itself. The choking wood dust from the workers frantically hand sanding every [...]

Jul 11, 2011

You may have seen the video we posted earlier in the week of the present day Gunn & Moore factory in Nottingham, where all of their English Willow bats are still manufactured. The current GM factory is the most technologically advanced cricket bat factory on the planet, with the capacity to produce any shape of [...]

Jul 06, 2011

Over the coming weeks we’ll be uploading a series of cricket batmaking to the blog. Here’s the first – produced by the BBC in association with Gunn & Moore.