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batsman and started
2002 was the year, when Dravid started to emerge out of Tendulkar's shadow and established himself as India's premier Test batsman.
* Vijay Hazare Trophy-named after the prolific Indian batsman, the Vijay Hazare Trophy was started in 2002-03 as an attempt to bring the limited-overs game among a greater audience.
A year that started on a promising note, Yousuf carried it forward to break two world records both held earlier by former West Indian batsman Viv Richards.
As a batsman, Hammond started the tour well, scoring 208 in an early game, but lost form once the Tests began.
In 2011 Trescothick started off the county championship season very strongly and was the first batsman in the country to score 1000 championship runs.
He started his career purely as a bowler but gradually became more of a batsman who could bowl.
He started his international career by scoring 24 runs in two matches against Australia as a middle order batsman, but improved during Sri Lanka's 5 – 0 whitewash of Zimbabwe in April 2004, hitting a career-best 74 not out to guide Sri Lanka to a nine-wicket win in the second ODI.
He started his domestic career as a batsman and only later developed into a keeper, although he never looked entirely confident with the gloves as he was arguably too tall and suffered in comparison with the dapper Jeff Dujon.
This victory, for which Ranatunga was a pivotal part both as batsman and captain, started a new era of Sri Lankan competitiveness on the global stage ; they had previously never passed the group stage of a world cup.
A right-handed batsman, Akmal started his international career in November 2002 with a Test match which Pakistan won at Harare Sports Club.
Hussey started out as a right-handed batsman but turned himself into a left-hander as he is greatly inspired by Border.
A left-handed batsman and fast-medium, round-arm bowler, Hodges started playing cricket for the famous Capulets club in the Collingwood district of Victoria.
A right-hand bat and slow left arm bowler, Colvin attended Westbourne House School, West Sussex originally as a batsman and started playing for the 1st XI in year 7 and averaging over 100.
Butcher was a left-handed opening batsman with an aggressive playing style and a fondness for hitting shots off the back foot, although he started his career as a left-arm fast-medium bowler.
Hogg started out as a batsman before switching to be an aggressive fast bowler.
Having started as a bowler, he developed his batting skills and became better known as a hard-hitting batsman, but remained a genuine all-rounder.

batsman and walk
An umpire will not give a batsman out unless an appeal is made by the fielding side, though a batsman may walk if he knows himself to be out.
This is nowadays rare, especially in Tests and first-class matches for contentious decisions ; however, it is the norm for a batsman to walk when he is out bowled or out to an obvious catch.
However, as it is possible to reach base without a hit ( most commonly via a walk, error, or hit batsman ), a pitcher can throw a no-hitter and still give up runs, and even lose the game, although this is extremely uncommon.
Although technically an appeal is required for the umpire to make a decision, in practice it is often obvious to all that a batsman is out, and the batsman may walk off the field without waiting for the decision of the umpire.
Sometimes a batsman will walk even when it is not clear to others that he is out, if in his own mind he is certain he was out ; this is considered to be the epitome of sportsmanlike behaviour.
If the batsman runs an odd number of runs, he is allowed to walk back to the wicket before the next ball is bowled.
Four of the Welch hitters did reach base, including one runner each via a walk, an error, a hit batsman and a passed ball charged to Twins ' catcher Harry Dunlop on a swinging third strike.

batsman and back
In doing so the flipper will float on towards the batsman and land on a fuller length than he anticipated, often leaving him caught on the back foot when he wrongly assumes it to be a pullable or a cuttable ball.
The batsman will see the back of the hand when the ball is released.
The fundamental skill of bowling on a good length incorporates the ability to pitch the ball such a distance from the batsman that he is unable to move forward and drive the ball on the half volley, and is also unable to step back and play the ball on the back foot.
The batsman can back away to the leg side to hit through the off side, but can expose their stumps in doing so.
If a batsman scores four by hitting the ball across the boundary ( not by actually running them ), the umpire signals this by waving his arm back and forth in front of the chest.
However, a second method used by Muttiah Muralitharan is for the arm to be rotated further so that the back of the hand is facing the batsman ; the ball is then given a large amount of spin by flexion of the wrist.
Waugh was primarily a right-handed batsman, batting in the No. 4 position in Test matches, and was also a handy medium pace bowler, who changed to an off-spin bowler after back injuries restricted him.
It requires co-operation between a bowler and wicket-keeper: the bowler must induce the batsman to move out of his ground, and the wicket-keeper must catch and break the wicket before the batsman realises he has missed the ball and makes his ground, i. e. places the bat or part of his body on the ground back behind the popping crease.
Bouncers are used tactically to drive the batsman back on to his back foot if he has been freely playing front foot scoring shots, such as drives.
To play the hook shot the batsman moves his back foot backwards and towards the off side as the ball is being delivered.
For example, a batsman strikes the ball, hitting the back net on the full ( 6 ) and makes one physical run, for a total of 7 runs.
After taking up coaching for Kent County Cricket Club, Wright enjoyed a successful coaching career with India, from 2000 to 2005, during which time the team improved immensely, winning a home test-series 2-1 against Australia ( which included the historic Kolkata test which India won coming back from a follow-on with Indian batsman VVS Laxman making 281 *), drawing a test series against Australia in Australia 1-1 in a four-match test series in 2003-04 ( Steve Waugh's farewell test series ), winning a series against arch-rivals, Pakistan, and reaching the final of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
The bowler delivers the ball with the same finger action as a normal off break but cocks the wrist so that the back of the hand faces the batsman.
A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favoured scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots.
Due to the number of batting records he set, some as far back as the 1930s and still unbeaten, Sir Donald Bradman is widely regarded as the greatest batsman of all time.
Front-foot shots are played with the weight on the front foot ( left foot for a right-hander ) and are usually played when the ball is pitched up to the batsman, while back-foot shots are played putting the weight onto the back foot, usually to bowling that is pitched short.
Depending upon the path of the ball, the batsman will either move forward or back in his attempt to intercept it.
The batsman will step back and, if necessary, stand on his tip toes to raise his bat to the height of the ball.
Vertical bat or straight-bat shots can be played either off the front foot or the back foot depending upon the anticipated height of the ball at the moment it reaches the batsman.
It is played off the front foot if the ball is pitched up at the toes or shin of the batsman, or off the back foot if the ball bounces at waist / hip height to the batsman.

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