What is cricket?
Cricket is one of the most popular bat and ball game across the world which is played between two teams in a field. It is a game of skills. The most basic skills involved in cricket are batting, bowling, catching and throwing.
What is a Cricket Ball?
Cricket is a bat and ball game in which the cricket ball is a very important tool. Without this even the game of cricket cannot be played. Different types of balls are used in different levels of cricket such as street cricket or beginning level cricket is played with sponge, plastic, rubber or tennis balls while training level cricket is played with hockey, cork or leather balls. All types of national, international, league, tournament and club level cricket matches are played with leather balls.
What is a Cricket Bat?
A cricket bat is an essential cricket equipment used by a batsman to strike the cricket ball. Usually it is made of willow wood but nowadays plastic bats are also becoming popular in gully cricket or beginner level cricket.
Bats made of English Willow and Kashmir Willow are very popular among batsmen and in this willow there are too many options available for every level of batsman.
Different types of bats are used in different levels of cricket like street cricket or beginner level cricket is played with lightweight Kashmir willow or poplar willow cricket bat or plastic cricket bat while training level cricket is played with Kashmir willow or English Willow Cricket Bat.
All types of national, international, league, tournament and club level cricket matches are played with English Willow Cricket Bats.
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What is Kashmir Willow?
Kashmir Willow is the type of Kashmiri wood that is used for the production of professional cricket bats. It is very tough and shock resistant, durable as well as very light in weight. Kashmir willow cricket bats are favourites amongst the professional and amateur cricket batsmen. Kashmir Willow cricket bats are known for their superior stroke play, enhanced sweet spots, and high shock-absorption. They are typically ideal for leather balls but can also be played with tennis balls.
What is English Willow?
English Willow is the wood of England origin that is used for the production of International Quality Cricket Bats. English Willow Cricket Bats are very favourites amongst the professional and amateur cricket batsmen and are known for their superior stroke play, enhanced sweet spots and high shock-absorption. English willow Bats are expensive to buy than Kashmir Willow bats but much lighter in weight.
What is Tennis Cricket?
Playing cricket using a tennis ball is a variant of cricket and known as Tennis Cricket. It is very popular in South Asian countries such as India Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
It is mainly played by kids and youngsters as playing cricket with a tennis ball is too easy compared to a conventional hard cricket ball. Tennis balls are also used by trainee cricketers. Soft or light weight cricket tennis balls are good for bounce while hard or heavy weight balls are good for long shots.
Playing cricket with NHD brand cricket tennis balls may improve your cricket skills as the balls are made under the strict supervision of industry experts to meet the international standard
What is a Scoop Bat?
Scoop bats are specially designed for tennis ball cricket. It has one or more scoops on the reverse side for the purpose to lower the weight. The length and width of a scoop bat is slightly larger than a full size short handle bat. Usually the length of the bat is 35 to 36 inches and the width is 4.25 to 4.5 inches.
Why plain cricket bat is expensive?
Cricket bats without stickers are always better than stickered ones. In plain bat defects or stains can be seen easily while it can be hidden very easily behind the sticker. Usually 30% blades of the bat are defect free while the rest 70% comes with stains or defects because of wood’s nature. To hide such stains or defects the stickers are used. Since plain cricket bats are defect free and stain free hence they are more expensive than stickered ones.
