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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dar Yasin

AP PHOTOS: Fewer willows worry Kashmir’s cricket bat makers

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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 that willow is hand-made into cricket bats that find their way to India and cricket-playing nations around the world.

But in the future, those bats are probably hard to come by.

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