Salix Cricket Bat

The Salix Cricket Bat Company was established in 1990 with the aim of producing handmade cricket bats of the highest quality. Its founder and owner, Andrew Kember, trained with a well known maker until 1989, then set Salix up as an independent bat manufacturing company, capable of producing exceptional, handmade bats and high specification protecti... ve equipment. The way in which the company entered an already saturated market was to base everything on quality, through handmaking the bats in-house to exacting standards and maintaining total control of the product. With limited resources for sponsorship and marketing, the name grew through word of mouth and the refusal to mass produce. Now, the profile of the brand is totally disproportionate to the volume of bats sold, with demand outstripping supply each season, yet the company expands year on year. The theory behind the bat making is simple: the best raw materials available, attention to detail and treatment of each bat individually at every stage of manufacture. In combination with considerable experience right through the bat making processes, from planting onwards, the bats and equipment are now firmly established at the top of any cricket range and the top of many batting orders. Good batmaking is a kind of alchemy: turning basic, natural raw materials into something very special; achieving this quality consistently, and independently, is what sets Salix apart. For 30 years we have been committed to making our bats in house from cleft to finish. All of our senior bats are 100% independently Salix made, by hand, to the highest levels in the industry. There is no more labour intensive bat, they are not outsourced and are totally CNC free. Our junior bats are machined, pressed, shaped and finished in our workshops and again represent a unique and incredibly labour intensive product. Every single bat still passes through the same Salix craftsmen's hands many times over to amplify quality and performance. The value of a Salix remains rooted in our in house ...Read More