Liam Herringshaw profiles Mark Warburton’s Canadian batmaking business for CricInfo.
“In continental North America, a region more than 20 million square kilometres in size, populated by well over 450 million people*, Warburton is likely the only living soul who hand-makes cricket bats.
“I know of no others,” he says, wryly. “My supplier has told me that he’s not sending willow to anybody else, so I think it’s just me.”
Even most Canadian cricket fans are unaware of his existence. “Bat distributors, we have aplenty,” one friend assured me, “but bat-makers, we don’t have.” So what got Warburton started in such a seemingly thankless task?
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