 The question has always been why the female species of this particular English willow makes the best cricket bat. So the aim has been for this project to understand the difference between the small features within the structure of the willow and to see how these small differences give rise to particular mechanical properties required for good cricket bats. If you know cricketers they're obsessed with cricket bats so to be here today to contribute in some way to make a better cricket bat I think on the envy of every cricket player in the world at the moment. Each cell is encased surrounded by a membrane of fibers and cellulose and these fibers are kind of intertwined and they create lots of cells that are filled with air and the membrane of these cells they have to be just right not too weak not too strong so when the cricket ball hits the surface of a cricket bat the cells deform enough to spring back to original shape so the ball can basically bounce back the surface. We think we know a lot about why a cricket bat works and now it'd be great to see the science behind actually what makes a great cricket bat. Using the tomography facility in applied bats we are able to extract the 3D structure so essentially it's a three-dimensional microscope that can blow out the tiny little features as small as one to micron. You can actually fly through this beautiful structure the labyrinth of complex patterns and structures and connected or disconnected features inside the material. I'm very interested to see what the end result is with the difference between cashmere willow and and the top grade English willow is why why the players bats are so much different and if you could squeeze in the good and the bad from there I think the possibilities are endless. If you find a good alternative for the English willow hopefully you will be able to produce good quality maybe even test grade bats at a really cheap price every boy and girl will be able to to use top quality cricket bat.