A cricket bat is the flat willow blade used to strike the ball. Oil a cricket bat.
It is made from one particular willow, grown for the purpose, and nothing else works as well. A new cricket bat has to be knocked in with a mallet for hours before it is used.
1nouncricket batThe flat willow blade used to strike the ball.
“The cricket bat had been repaired twice and never replaced.”
cricket bat is equipment.
Practised in Sports & Games Played