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	Cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batsmen can also be out by other means, such as failing to defend the bowled ball from hitting the wicket, or hitting a catch to a fielder.
		As there must always be two batsmen on the field, if and when the tenth batsman is out, the team's turn to bat, or innings (always with a terminal "s" in cricket usage), is over, and the other team may bat while the first team takes the field.
		If the batsmen score an odd number of runs, then they will have swapped ends and their roles as striker and non-striker will be reversed for the next ball, unless the most recent ball marks the end of an over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cricket (5540 words)

	Batsman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batsman (443 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tests have shown that batsmen pick the ball up about a metre sooner by closely watching the ball out of the hand rather than the general area from where the ball is propelled from.
		Batsmen can and must watch the bowler's hand, for they will then be able to pick with practice what the bowler is trying to do.
		The Aussie batsmen by their aggressive action are not allowing the Sri Lankan spin wizard to adopt his usual tactics.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/03/20/spo20.html (1203 words)

	Chula's Cricket Ratings - Test Batsmen
		To a lesser extent, the number of matches played, the number of 50s, 200s and 300s are also considered.
		Batsmen who have played less than 80 innings are penalized accordingly.
		Batsmen who plied their trade before 1914 - when pitches offered extravagant movement, are awarded bonus points.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/cww22/Test_Batsmen_Home.htm (156 words)

	analyst: The middle-order batsman
		The opening batsmen, who have their own unique abilities, should have taken the venom out of the new ball and the edge off the bowler's aggression allowing the middle-order batsmen to come in and build a score.
		Batsmen will meet in the middle to talk strategy, observbe that a certain bowler is looking tired or discuss where they're having their dinner tonight.
		The batsmen, having got their eye in against the pacemen, will then have to face whatever other bowlers the opposition have up their sleeves – from mainstream spin bowlers to the more unorthodox occasional bowler brought on for an over or two to confuse and confound.
	www.channel4.com /sport/cricket/analyst/batting/ana_58.html (491 words)

	Action Packed Cricket Video Tapes: Action Packed Cricket
		If the batsmen are attempting to take runs, and a fielder gathers the ball and hits a wicket with it, dislodging one or both bails, while no batsman is behind that wicket's popping crease, then the nearest batsman is run out.
		The batsmen carry their bats as they run, and turning for another run is accomplished by touching the ground beyond the crease with an outstretched bat.
		Batsmen cannot be run out while the ball is dead - so they may confer in the middle of the pitch between deliveries if they desire.
	www.cricketvideo.com /cricket_exp.html (9613 words)

	Channel 4 Analyst Simon Hughes explains cricket Batting
		English batsmen are afraid to use their feet against spinners for fear of being left stranded down the pitch and they rely heavily on the sweep shot.
		The best batsmen in the world have the edge over their less talented peers in one other area – their instinctive skill and judgement allows them to play the ball a split second longer.
		Because they are inferior batsmen, tailenders usually wear all the protective equipment they can lay their hands on.
	www.channel4.com /sport/cricket/analyst/batting (812 words)

	Sports Rules - Cricket
		While the fielders are collecting it and throwing it back to the bowler, the two batsmen run backwards and forwards between the wickets (the three sticks placed at each end of the pitch).
		In this way, both batsmen may get a chance at scoring runs as the bowler will continue to bowl from one side of the pitch to whichever batsmen is in position.
		Batsmen may elect to play either an attacking stroke or a defensive stroke, depending on the bowler and the run of play, and their own personal decision.
	sportsrules.50g.com /cricket.htm (4939 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“My batsmen must start valuing their wickets, they need to quickly fight a way out of the batting slump,” Atapattu said as his team prepared to defend its five-year winning record of limited overs series at home.
		Atapattu said his batsmen are capable of dominating at Rangiri Stadium, where the swinging and bouncing ball has given bowlers the ascendancy.
		Batsmen have struggled, but Latif feels it gives his young line-up the perfect learning environment.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030518/asp/sports/story_1980511.asp (587 words)

	Star - Batsmen have a ball while bowlers toil
		The batsmen may have been the ones having a case of the runs during the recently completed series between the West Indies and South Africa, but it's the bowlers who are feeling decidedly ill.
		Batsmen are undoubtedly better than they were say, a decade ago.
		Much like bowlers are able to closely analyse their actions, so can batsmen check on their stance at the crease and, more importantly, study which areas bowlers are likely to bowl.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=133&fArticleId=331422 (712 words)

	BBC News \| Cricket \| Malcolm Marshall: Scourge of batsmen
		Batsmen the world over slept a little better when Malcolm Marshall hung up his boots.
		His deadly accurate bouncers were feared by batsmen the world over.
		The team, with Marshall perhaps the most feared quarter of the four-man pace attack, was the finest in the world at the time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/cricket/368927.stm (601 words)

	Batsmen win the race in 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As many as 11 batsmen crossed 1000 Test runs — once the benchmark that separated the great from the good — and an unprecedented occurrence in the 128 years of Test cricket.
		A case in point is the Nagpur Test against Australia where the batsmen smelled leather or the Mumbai wicket where the turning ball ended the match in just over two days.
		Not one to mince words, the lanky Banglorean is very clear in his mind that the rules of the game are in the batsmen’s court.
	web.mid-day.com /sports/international/2005/january/100682.htm (833 words)

	Intimidatory bowling lives on \|\| Indian Cricket Fever - Unofficial Indian Cricket News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After all, with all those flat wickets and the presence of so many quality batsmen, there are some arguing that cricket's entering a drought of good bowlers.
		Brendon McCullum and Hamish Marshall at various points were both peppered by a number of fiery short pitched balls, and as one might expect with their current level of competence, there's been very little response from the umpires.
		Batsmen understand that bouncers may be directed at them and prepare accordingly.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s119/st67899.htm?fromrss=1 (3933 words)

	Glossary of cricket terms & sayings
		Top-order (1,2,3) batsmen have to be adept against pace and the new ball; 4 and 5 will often be the two most attacking batsmen, while 5 or 6 may be the best place for a 'spin specialist', who is most useful when the ball is older and the slow bowlers are in action.
		If - for example, when the batsmen are running overthrows from a rebound - a fielder wants to break a wicket whose bails are already off, he may first replace a bail, or knock or pull a stump from the ground while touching it with the ball.
		If the batsmen run, or the ball goes to the boundary without hitting the bat, that number of no-balls is scored instead.
	www.wandererscricket.com /glossary.html (9926 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The batsmen do not trust the bounce of the ball and are afraid to play strokes." Another reason put forward by Lloyd is the changing face of the game as far as itineraries are concerned.
		Years ago however, by the time the opposition worked a batsmen out, it was the third or fourth Test match.
		By the time the batsmen get to the Red Stripe Cup they should be well rounded players." Despite the concern over pitch and technique, Lloyd is confi- dent that with a little help from the groundsmen, West Indies cricket will flourish as it did in the glory days of the late 1970s and the 1980s.
	www.cricinfo.com /db/ARCHIVE/1996-97/IND_IN_WI/ARTICLES/LLOYD_WI_BATSMEN_06MAR1997 (510 words)

	Interviews - Murali bemused by ball-kickers : HTCricket.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Muralitharan said the influx of technology had given the batsmen the advantage of analyzing spinners by repeatedly studying videos before formulating strategies to counter them.
		In recent years, many batsmen had adopted the low-risk strategy of thrusting their pads out to smoother Muralitharan's prodigious spin.
		Some New Zealand batsmen used the ploy during the 0-0 drawn two-Test series, but Muralitharan still got 13 dismissals in the series to boost his tally to 450 wickets from 80 Tests.
	www.htcricket.com /htcricket/66_249044.htm (502 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their batsmen all have the flair for big hitting which is a prerequisite in the 'cowboy game'.
		They are the emerging young batsmen and a lot is expected from them in the future.
		The ball was coming at varying heights and no batsmen seemed confident and was allowed to give free rein to his strokeplay.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/02/17/spo08.html (953 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - Batting Strategy and Tactics
		The reason the side is arranged in order from best to poorest batting ability is that better batsmen begin their innings earlier in the team's innings, so the team benefits from their greater skill sooner.
		In reality, these three decisions (front/back foot, attack/defend, type of shot) are made virtually simultaneously, based on the batsman's general state of mind and his split-second judgement of the merits of a particular ball as the bowler releases it and it travels down the pitch towards him.
		Depending how confident the batsman is that his less skilful partner can survive a few balls without getting out, the better batsmen will try to score 1 or 3 on the 4th, 5th, or 6th ball of the over, thus giving him the strike again at the start of the next over.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/batstrategy.html (4042 words)

	Cricket : A Gentlemen's Game! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Batsmen are the ones who whip up hysteria in the crowd, everybody loves them, they are the Don Juans of the game.
		Many batsmen are good, but only a few are great.
		Australian batsmen were getting badly injured, and were unable to break the shackles.
	www.ukresident.com /cricket__a_gentelmens_game.htm (1101 words)

	Chula's Cricket Ratings - ODI Batsmen
		The following main factors are considered to rate ODI batsmen.
		Batsmen who have played less than 100 matches are penalized accordingly.
		Click here for the Greatest ODI batsmen based on actual figures.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/cww22/ODI_Batsmen_Home.htm (149 words)

	BBC SPORT \| CRICKET \| Mashud demands more from batsmen
		Bangladesh cricket captain Khaled Mashud said the burden rested with his specialist batsmen if his side was to have any chance of competing with Pakistan.
		Mashud was happy with his team's bowling effort, but rued the lack of application by the batsmen.
		He said: "It was nice to see the lower order batsmen put their heads down and bat for a while.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/cricket/1778024.stm (407 words)

	Cricinfo - Batsmen waste Streak's performance
		The main reason for that drought has been their batsmen's inability to come to terms with the lively pitches, quality fast bowling, swing and seam and India fell right into the same trap again.
		Faced with disciplined medium-pace with the ball moving both ways, batsmen after batsmen were frustrated into indiscretions - Gautam Gambhir flashed at one after being bogged down; Yuvraj Singh and Dravid paid for playing across the line against full swinging deliveries; and Sourav Ganguly poked at one after being tied down by accurate bowling.
		The bowlers stuck to a fine channel all day and the batsmen, who appeared to be waiting for the loose ball, were ultimately undone with the run-rate reduced to a labouring crawl.
	content.cricinfo.com /zimvind/content/story/219763.html?... (754 words)

	CRICKETNEXT.COM FEATURES ::: Indians get rattled by genuinely fast bowling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are other instances of Indian batsmen standing up to pace -- Pravin Amre and Kapil Dev on the earlier tour of South Africa or Mohammed Azharuddin's spanking century in the opening Test against New Zealand last year when the side capitulated without a semblance of a fight, Simon Doul wreaking the havoc.
		I am convinced that the Indian batsmen feel no fear, there are enough testimonials, but they are disconcerted by deliveries which whistle around their noses.
		The coming break from international cricket and the fact that both Dravid and Sourav Ganguly will be playing county cricket in England should be used not just as a period of introspection, but a time to hone their skills against quick bowling.
	www.cricketnext.com /features/bamzai/bamzai002.htm (623 words)

	What is Cricket?
		Batsmen - one who scores runs of the balls bowled by the bowler.
		Batsmen are the ones who whip up hysteria in the crowd, eveybody loves them, they are the Don Juans of the game.
		Australian batsmen were geting badly injured, and were unable to break the shackles.
	www.topendsports.com /sport/cricket/basics.htm (1178 words)

	Cricinfo - Time for top batsmen to perform, says Jayasuriya
		Sanath Jayasuriya warned his batsmen on the eve of the One-Day International series against England that the time had come for them to perform.
		Describing the recent performances of the Sri Lankan top order as "unacceptable", he believes that they must quickly learn from their mistakes if they are to win the three-match series which begins in Dambulla tomorrow.
		Jayasuriya admitted that the captaincy was a hard job in such circumstances, but denied that he was ready to throw in the towel: "Captaincy is a tough job at the best of times, but particularly so after a series like the last one.
	content.cricinfo.com /srilanka/content/story/105393.html (403 words)

	test cricket batsmen out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Players are spread out in the field to stop the batsmen from scoring runs and in an...
		When a batsmen gets out they leave the field and the next batsman in the batting order...
		Test or long-form cricket is that each side has 11 batsmen and they must bat in pairs.
	www.thebestcricketinfo.com /16/test-cricket-batsmen-out.html (400 words)

	Carpet laid out for batsmen - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Especially in the sub-continent, the dice is so heavily loaded in favour of the batsmen that one can almost see the bowlers running in with a prayer on their lips.
		On some of the flattest surfaces -- a billiards table would turn greener with envy if it could -- batsmen established and those batsmen trying to catch the attention of the selectors have made merry; as for the bowlers, one can almost feel their trepidation when the captain tosses the ball to them.
		Batsmen are so used to the ball coming at a comfortable pace and height, and with no deviation worth the name, on most one-day wickets that the odd strip like the one at Perth recently, where for once the bowlers had everything going their way, brings out the worst in them.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar172004/ss4.asp (812 words)

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