Mathew Thomas<p>Blades, grades and custom-mades: inside the world of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cricket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cricket</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/batmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>batmaking</span></a><br />Cricketers have been honing their craft for centuries in search of perfection. The people who make their bats are no different<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JSWrightSons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JSWrightSons</span></a> is into its 3rd century as the world’s principal provider of willow for cricket bats. <br />They source and dispatch 400,000 clefts a year. <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Threequarters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Threequarters</span></a> of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/worldscricketbats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>worldscricketbats</span></a>.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/sep/11/cricket-batmaking-blades-grades-custom-mades-wisden-cricketers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/sport/2023/sep</span><span class="invisible">/11/cricket-batmaking-blades-grades-custom-mades-wisden-cricketers</span></a></p>