A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context:

• Any player in the act of batting. Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic Cricket structure representing the historic county Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Andrew-Strauss-Cricketer-detailjpg|thumb|right|250px| Andrew Strauss batting for England during the 2005 NatWest Series]] In the Sport of Cricket, batting
• A player whose speciality in the game is batting.

Contents 1 The batting role 2 Batting skills 3 Womens' Cricket 4 Some noted batsmen by country 4.1  Australia 4.2  England 4.3  India 4.4  New Zealand 4.5  Pakistan 4.6  South Africa 4.7  Sri Lanka 4.8  West Indies 4.9  Zimbabwe 5 See also 6 Cricket Bat Brands

The batting role

During the play of a cricket match, two members of the batting team are on the field, while their team-mates wait off the field. Those two players are the current batsmen. Each batsman stands near one of the two wickets at either end of the cricket pitch near the centre of the ground. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket A Cricket pitch is the central strip of the Cricket field between the Wickets The pitch is 1 chain or 22 yards (20

The two batsmen have different roles:

• The striker stands in front of the wicket nearest him and attempts to defend it from balls bowled by the opposing bowler from the other wicket. A delivery or ball in Cricket is a single action of Bowling a Cricket ball towards the Batsman. Muralijpg|thumb|250px|right|The world's leading off-spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan sends down a delivery]] A bowler in the Sport of Cricket is usually
• The non-striker stands inactive near the bowler's wicket.

While defending his wicket, the striker may also hit the ball into the field and attempt to run to the opposite wicket, exchanging places with the non-striker. This scores a run. the Sport of Cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a Batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen (plus The two batsmen may continue to exchange places, scoring additional runs, until members of the fielding team collect and return the ball to either wicket. See run (cricket) for further details. the Sport of Cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a Batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen (plus

While the striker's position is dictated by the necessity to defend the bowled ball from hitting his wicket, the non-striker typically takes a few steps away from his wicket as the bowler delivers the ball, in preparation to run.

Batting skills

The skills required to be a good batsman vary with the type of cricket game being played and the situation of the game. Generally a batsman is required to score runs as quickly as possible without taking unnecessary risks and losing his wicket. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket At other times a batsman may be required to simply occupy the crease (stay in) as long as possible so as to prevent the bowling team from winning the game before time runs out. For the goalie's crease in hockey see Goal area. In the Sport of Cricket, the crease is the area demarcated by white Darren_Gough_bowlingjpg|thumb|250px|right| Darren Gough bowling]] In the Sport of Cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward Batting average and strike rate are standard statistical measures of a batsman's ability, although their objective values are a favoured subject of debate amongst fans. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively Strike rate refers to two different statistics in the Sport of Cricket.

Batsmen also have specialties within the skill. Some are opening batsmen (openers), meaning that they are the first players to bat in an innings. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during This specialty requires patience and fortitude to face the best opposition bowlers who are normally used first; typically these bowlers are fast bowlers, so an ability against fast pitched bowling is useful. In addition, a new cricket ball will keep its speed better when it bounces, which gives opening batsmen less time to play their shots. A new cricket ball will also have a tendency to move laterally when pitched as the seam is still prominent. However, an older ball may swing more or even reverse swing. Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the Sport of Cricket. Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the Sport of Cricket.

Following the opening batsmen are the middle-order batsmen (sometimes #3 is not considered middle-order). They are generally more free-scoring than the openers, partly because of their style and partly because the openers will have hopefully tired the bowlers and taken the shine and bounce from the new ball, so it should be easier to score runs.

After the recognised batsmen, the batting team's bowlers bat. Bowlers generally spend more time practising bowling, and so their batting is usually not as accomplished as the recognised batsmen. Particularly bad batsmen are known as rabbits. Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven It is known for its rich terminology On occasion some truly woeful batsmen have been referred to as ferrets as 'they go in after the rabbits. '

Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, "The Don", is universally accepted as the greatest exponent of the art of batting that the game has ever seen. Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001 often referred to as The Don, was an Australian Cricketer widely His record is without peer.

Some players, known as all-rounders, are reasonably good at batting and bowling and may occupy any position in the batting lineup but few are opening batsmen and obviously none is a rabbit (or they wouldn't be all-rounders!). An all-rounder is a Cricket player who excels at both batting and bowling.

The wicket-keeper also bats and is expected to be at least an adequate batsman: the choice of wicket-keepers for international teams is often influenced by their batting ability. Cricket wicket keeperjpg|thumb|300px|A wicket-keeper in characteristic position ready to face a delivery

All of the above are generalisations and many exceptions can be found in the history of cricket. The game of Cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day with international matches played since 1844 although the official history

Womens' Cricket

The term batsman is used in both Mens' and Womens' Cricket, whether the cricketer is male or female.

Some noted batsmen by country

Bold used to indicate a current player

 Australia

• Allan Border
• Don Bradman
• Greg Chappell
• Ian Chappell
• Neil Harvey
• Clem Hill
• Lindsay Hassett
• Charlie Macartney
• Stan McCabe
• Arthur Morris
• Ricky Ponting
• Bill Ponsford
• Bob Simpson
• Victor Trumper
• Steve Waugh
• Bill Woodfull

 England

• Ken Barrington
• Geoffrey Boycott
• Denis Compton
• Colin Cowdrey
• Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji - "Duleep"
• Graham Gooch
• David Gower
• WG Grace
• Wally Hammond
• Jack Hobbs
• Len Hutton
• Kevin Pietersen
• Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji - "Ranji"
• Herbert Sutcliffe

 India

• Sunil Gavaskar
• Vijay Hazare
• Mohammed Azharuddin
• Sourav Ganguly
• Rahul Dravid
• VVS Laxman
• Vijay Merchant
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Virender Sehwag
• Ravi Shastri
• Dilip Vengsarkar
• Gundappa Viswanath

 New Zealand

• Martin Crowe
• Charles Dempster
• Stephen Fleming
• Andrew Jones
• Glenn Turner
• John Wright

 Pakistan

• Saeed Anwar
• Hanif Mohammad
• Imran Khan
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Javed Miandad
• Majid Khan
• Mudassar Nazar
• Mushtaq Mohammad
• Saleem Malik
• Younis Khan
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Zaheer Abbas
• Misbah-ul-Haq

 South Africa

• Herschelle Gibbs
• Jacques Kallis
• Gary Kirsten
• Bruce Mitchell
• Dudley Nourse
• Graeme Pollock
• Barry Richards
• Graeme Smith
• Herbie Taylor

 Sri Lanka

• Aravinda De Silva
• Sanath Jayasuriya
• Mahela Jayawardene
• Kumar Sangakkara

 West Indies

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
• Chris Gayle
• Gordon Greenidge
• Desmond Haynes
• George Headley
• Alvin Kallicharran
• Rohan Kanhai
• Brian Lara
• Clive Lloyd
• Viv Richards
• Richie Richardson
• Garry Sobers
• Clyde Walcott
• Everton Weekes
• Frank Worrell

 Zimbabwe

• Andy Flower
• Grant Flower
• David Houghton
• Sean Williams
• Stuart Carlisle
• Alistair Campbell
• Neil Johnson

See also

• All-rounder
• Bowler
• Fielder
• Wicket-keeper
• Cricket terminology

Cricket Bat Brands

• Gunn and Moore
• Woodworm
• Gray-Nicolls
• Slazenger
• Puma
• Hunts County
• MRF
• Kookaburra
• BAS
• Reebok
• Sunridges
• SG

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