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batting and against
In this case, the same batter continues his turn batting in the next inning with no balls or strikes against him.
Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.
On the last day of the season, Lajoie overtook Cobb's batting average with seven bunt hits against the St. Louis Browns.
He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.
Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.
Brian Lara batting against Indian national cricket team | India at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 2002.
Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.
His best batting against West Indies came when playing for Free State ; he scored 158 * as they chased down 438 and made up a first innings deficit of 249.
* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".
However, he recovered in the 1976 National League Championship Series to hit for a. 385 batting average against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Jardine felt that Bradman was afraid to stand his ground against intimidatory bowling, citing instances in 1930 when he shuffled about, contrary to orthodox batting technique.
The team's low point was arguably on May 1 when the team started 7 players who were batting below. 235 in a game against Kansas City.
On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".
Relegated to the Second XI after this match, he was struck in the head above the right eye while batting against Victoria in Melbourne, having missed an attempted hook.
In his early career, Benaud was a batting all-rounder, marked by a looping backlift which made him suspect against fast bowling but allowed him to have a wide attacking stroke range.
In 1973, Rose led the league with 230 hits and a. 338 batting average en route to winning the NL MVP award, and leading " the Big Red Machine " to the 1973 National League Championship Series against the New York Mets.
Because of the competitive advantages pitchers enjoyed between 1963 and 1968 ( prior to the lowering of the pitcher's mound ), Yastrzemski's. 301 mark in " The Year of the Pitcher " is the lowest average of any batting champion in major league history ; however, he was the only hitter in the American League to hit. 300 for that season against such formidable pitching, as well as leading the league in on-base percentage and walks.
In the 1980 championship series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Puhl set a then NL-championship series record with a. 526 batting average in a losing cause, the best performance ever by a hitter in a play-off series ( It has since been superseded ).
Waugh made 32 in the next match against the West Indies, and again Steve was run out while they were batting together.
In 1988 – 89 against the West Indies, Waugh mixed some batting failures with two entertaining innings of 90 and 91 on the faster pitches of Brisbane and Perth, respectively.
In his first innings after recall, and his first opening the batting for England, he scored 151 against New Zealand.
Piazza batting against the Milwaukee Brewers.
This happened when he noticed that a team winning against Riverdale had committed a batting out of turn error, told Coach Kleats, who then informed the umpire as required in the rules for a judgement and the umpire declared the offending player was out, which allowed Riverdale to win with the opportunity.
The song was parodied by British satirist Rory Bremner under the pseudonym ' The Commentators ,' as N-n-nineteen, Not Out, the title referring to the batting average of David Gower, the England cricket captain, during his side's risible performance against the West Indies in 1984 when they lost 5-0.
For his part, Buckner was batting just. 143 against Mets pitching, and was 0-for-5 in Game 6.

batting and spin
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending thoughtful leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression.
Opening the batting, Gower made only 10 runs in the first innings as England were bowled out for 164, however after the West Indies had made 201 Gower fell short with 49 in the second innings, stumped off a spin bowler.
Gower was also a right-arm off break spin bowler despite batting left-handed, who took one Test wicket at 20. 00 out of the six overs he sent down in the occasional instances when called on to bowl.
He was well-known for his general mastery of batting when facing spin bowling.
Indian pitches have had tendency to support spin and the spin quartet exploited this to create collapses in opposing batting line-ups.
Neither is the bounce too disconcerting nor is the movement extravagant. It also does not assist spin like the sub continent pitches and hence for quality batsman they could be batting paradises.
Sourav Ganguly, the then captain played Badani consistently for two more tours, mostly as middle-lower order batting all rounder who bowled left arm orthodox spin.
He is rated among the best Zimbabwean cricketers in history for his handy left arm spin and fine batting skills.
He was a tall () batting all-rounder who bowled both medium pace and off spin.
His batting helped Australia to 9 ( declared ) for 471, which was a winning total on a wicket that was taking spin.
The good batting conditions, the aggressive Australian approach to playing spin bowlers and Verity's lack of experience led critics to dismiss his potential contribution to the English bowling attack, but Verity had a successful start to the tour.
The ground favours spin bowling, and is considered favourable to the Sri Lankan side which has several good spin bowlers and also a batting line up that is good at playing against spin bowling.
During their half-inning, a grownup would have up to three chances to hit home runs off a batting tee ; however, the adult was first required to hold his bat upright against his forehead and spin around it three times ; furthermore, each adult would only get thirty seconds to hit the balls.
The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years.
Whilst his batting declined somewhat for a few seasons between 1892 and 1895, Peel headed the first-class bowling averages in 1893 and took a career-best 180 wickets in 1895, when after a slow start on much-improved wickets in very dry weather, his spin and guile made him almost unplayable when the weather broke up in July.
Wally Hammond, who still holds many of the county's batting records formed part of an occasionally strong inter-war team, although the highest championship finish during this period was second in 1930 and 1931, when Charlie Parker and Tom Goddard formed a devastating spin attack.
The following year, Townsend's bowling was expensive even on the few rain-affected pitches because he was sacrificing accuracy to gain spin, but his batting developed so much that he attained the status of an all-rounder, scoring a maiden century against Yorkshire and winning a critical match against Nottinghamshire.
Delyone Borden's spin bowling brought them back in to the game-taking 4 wickets for just 33 runs, and reducing Canada to 179 / 6 ; but the tail end of Canada's batting order got them the 207 runs they required-with 6 overs to spare and losing just 1 more wicket-to finish on 207 / 7.
Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack wrote that his batting featured " wristy cuts " and " vigorous hooks ", opining that there were " few better players of spin bowling on a difficult pitch ".
Although he was best known for his off spin ( though at first he bowled medium pace as well ), he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions.
In his youth, McKenzie was an all rounder, batting right-handed and bowling off spin.

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