Replacing willow with bamboo in cricket bats

Willow has been used for nearly 200 years as the main material in blades of cricket bats, whilst application bamboo sport declined. In this work, laminated was characterised to assess if it could be a viable alternative willow. Bamboo matures much more quickly than willow and is prevalent countries, such India, where there large interest cricket. Using lead increased participation new products focused around low-cost production sustainability bats. Alongside materials testing, finite element modelling understand properties full-scale bat made bamboo. Working with Garrard & Flack, manufacturing company, full-size prototype fabricated. It found that suitable due its higher Modulus Elasticity, coefficient restitution larger area coverage ‘sweet-spot’, enabling energy transfer from player ball. However, density, shape optimisation required design light-weight bat.