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Axed: Rampant logging hits India's cricket bat industry / 33WE8JL
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When the cricket World Cup opens in India next month several players will carry Kashmiri willow wood bats, but manufacturers say over-exploitation of trees means their famous craft faces ruin.
Unchecked logging without replanting has reduced swathes of woodland to scrubl in the disputed Indian-administered Himalayan territory, and bat manufacturers are facing a bleak future. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES