Cricket bat

A cricket bat maker working his craft on a bat in one of some 70 factories that have mushroomed in Balrampur and Rudrapur villages in Jashore. The villages are now popularly known as the “cricket bat villages of Bangladesh”. Photo: TBS
Features

The Jashore village where cricket bats and dreams are made

Cricket bat makers in Pirojpur make bats with 100% domestic raw materials. The industry makes an annual profit of Tk3-4 crore. Photo: TBS
Industry

Pirojpur cricket bats replace imported ones in local tournaments