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Kashmir willow

By Will last year, at the end of October Leave a comment on this post

Nice shot of a bat being made from Kashmir willow

Gauravb.

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3 Responses to “Kashmir willow”

pseudoKu wrote:
October 27th, 2007 at 9.47 am

While on the subject of bats… does anyone have tips on buying a good bat online?! I live in California and haven’t seen any sports store carry cricket bats (yet!)….

steve wrote:
October 27th, 2007 at 11.00 am

on the subject of blogs, could you stop fiddling with the layout, Will(ow)?

Will wrote:
October 27th, 2007 at 1.42 pm

Sorry Steve. Just trying to get it sorted and speed things up. It’s painfully slow

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