India’s oldest cricket bat manufacturer is from Meerut

India has been playing cricket for more than a century. Meerut based Sanspareils Greenlands manufactures the best bats in the country.

Sanpareils is thirteen years short of becoming a 100 year old company.

India has been playing cricket for more than a century. Meerut based Sanspareils Greenlands manufactures the best bats in the country.

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• It has been manufacturing cricket bats since 1931.

• Cricketers like Sunil Gawaskar, Rahul Dravid and Sehwag have used their bats.

• SG Test balls are handmade and at Rs 1149 eachare said to be 1/5th the price of Kookaburra balls.

• In 2011 their revenue was INR 80 crore. They are aiming to become a INR 1000 crore company by 2022.

Know more:

• Interview: how Paras Anand turned around the company from the near failure.

• Video; how they manufacture bats.

• Read; Germany’s Meerut, birthplace of two iconic sports-brands