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Bradbury Cricket Bats in 2022

Cricket Equipment

There has been a shift in location and the way we offer our equipment for sale in 2022. The online experience will continue to be available, however, we have not yet got a showroom at our new location.…

Changes for 2022

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The new year brings new opportunities. Bradbury Cricket has a major change approaching due to the workshop premises changing ownership. After 10 years at 7a Forsyth St, O’Connor, we will be relocating in April and will advise the…

28 Birdhouse Project

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Bradbury Cricket have embraced a more sustainable approach to manufacturing cricket bats that aims to extend the use of willow offcuts by making birdhouses for backyards all over Perth.  It is part of a circular economy initiative to…

8 years ago, today

Bat Making

Bradbury Cricket began in a back yard shed in Legana, Tasmania.  Paul and Sally Bradbury had moved from Perth, Western Australia to the area for new opportunities.  After 2 years the founders returned to WA and continued crafting…

Off Season

Bat Making

Here in our Fremantle workshop we have been preparing for our seasonal slow down.  After a fantastic season we were looking forward to slowing the pace in crafting under the deadlines of players schedules.  The Bradbury’s were not…

Sponsorship as a marketing tool in cricket

Players and sponsorship

Sports companies are the first to be asked for sponsorship and it is imperative that the relationship from any arrangement is balanced. What is sponsorship? Sponsorship is a form of marketing used to sell product. In cricket it…

Beware when buying

Cricket Equipment

There are many many charts and even more theories on matching the bat size to height, age, type of player etc etc.  When presented with too much information, or not enough, younger players that have Google to advise,…

Batting Leg Guard sizing

Cricket Equipment

As cricketers come in all shapes and sizes, so do leg guards. The height of a cricketer does not necessarily give the best indication of what size they may be as it is dependent on the dimensions of…

Willow Tree to Cleft

Bat Making

Visitors to our workshop are often intrigued about the origin of the wood that is used to make the Bradbury Cricket bats.  The clefts of cricket bat willow are stacked in the workshop before the crafting begins. However,…

Back in the UK

Players and sponsorship

Bradbury have not many sponsored players in the UK, but quality certainly makes up for quantity.  Anuj Dal at Derbyshire County Cricket Club is a wonderful sponsored player that is making the most of the support he gets…