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The cricket bat-maker: 'People don't believe it takes so much to achieve the final product. We don't want to rush anything'
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Handmade cricket bat maker Tony Sains at work getting bats ready for the start of the cricket season, in his workshop at Warsop Stebbing Bats, East Hanningfield, Essex Stock Photo - Alamy
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