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A bowler gains points based on wickets taken, runs conceded and match result, with more points gained for dismissing highly rated batsmen. A damping-factor is applied to a player's rating at the start of their career, so they do not get a full rating for their performances until they have played about 20 Tests.
Sharma playing a late cut shot during the 2015 World Cup. Sharma is an aggressive batsman but plays with style and elegance. [111] [112] He is usually an opening batsman in limited overs cricket, but has played most of his Test cricket as a middle-order batsman.
Australian opening batsman Bill Woodfull was the first cricketer to carry the bat two times in Test cricket.. In cricket, the phrase "carrying the bat" refers to a situation in which an opening batter remains not out at the end of an innings where all the 10 wickets have fallen; [1] the other 10 players in the team have all been dismissed. [2]
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have played for South Africa, and one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. He is a right-handed batsman and holds the record for the highest individual Test score of any South African batsman of 311 not out, scored against England at The Oval, London in July 2012. [3]
The Indian opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar named his son Rohan after Kanhai, [3] and wrote of Kanhai, "To say that he is the greatest batsman I have ever seen so far is, to put it mildly." Bob Holland , the Australian spin bowler, also named his son Rohan, in honour of Kanhai. [ 4 ]
A former captain in all formats of the game, Kohli retired from the T20I format following India's win at the 2024 T20 World Cup. He's a right-handed batsman and an occasional unorthodox right arm quick bowler. Kohli holds the highest IPL run-scorer record, ranks third in T20I, third in ODI, and stands the fourth-highest in international cricket ...
Barry Anderson Richards (born 21 July 1945) is a former South African first-class cricketer.A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature", Richards is considered one of South Africa's most successful batsmen.
He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in Test cricket. Cook is the sixth-highest Test run scorer of all time and second-highest run scorer for England ever. He retired from Test cricket in September 2018 and played for Essex County Cricket Club in English domestic cricket until 2023, while also working for the BBC radio programme ...