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Cricket batting tips that will surprise you, You would read what are the best ways to learn batting skills in cricket.

If you want to improve your batting in cricket then first you have to master your batting grip & stance to enhance your batting skills. Here we going to share the list of top 5 batting drills which can also help you to improve your batting.

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Barnes, timidly jubilant, came up to Mike with the news that he had won the toss, and the request that Mike would go in first with him. In stories of the “Not Really a Duffer” type, where the nervous new boy, who has been found crying in the boot-room over the photograph of his sister, contrives to get an innings in a game, nobody suspects that he is really a prodigy till he hits the Bully’s first ball out of the ground for six. With Mike it was different. There was no pitying smile on Adair’s face as he started his run preparatory to sending down the first ball. Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots. Cricketer was written all over him—in his walk, in the way he took guard, in his stand at the wickets. Adair started to bowl with the feeling that this was somebody who had more than a little knowledge of how to deal with good bowling and punish bad. Mike started cautiously. He was more than usually anxious to make runs to-day, and he meant to take no risks till he could afford to do so. He had seen Adair bowl at the nets, and he knew that he was good. The first over was a maiden, six dangerous balls beautifully played. The fieldsmen changed over. The general interest had now settled on the match between Outwood’s and Downing’s. The fact in Mike’s case had gone round the field, and, as several of the other games had not yet begun, quite a large crowd had collected near the pavilion to watch. Mike’s masterly treatment of the opening over had impressed the spectators, and there was a popular desire to see how he would deal with Mr. Downing’s slows. It was generally anticipated that he would do something special with them. Off the first ball of the master’s over a leg-bye was run. Mike took guard. Mr. Downing was a bowler with a style of his own. He took two short steps, two long steps, gave a jump, took three more short steps, and ended with a combination of step and jump, during which the ball emerged from behind his back and started on its slow career to the wicket. The whole business had some of the dignity of the old-fashioned minuet, subtly blended with the careless vigour of a cake-walk. The ball, when delivered, was billed to break from leg, but the programme was subject to alterations. If the spectators had expected Mike to begin any firework effects with the first ball, they were disappointed. He played the over through with a grace worthy of his brother Joe. The last ball he turned to leg for a single. His treatment of Adair’s next over was freer. He had got a sight of the ball now. Half-way through the over a beautiful square cut forced a passage through the crowd by the pavilion, and dashed up against the rails. He drove the sixth ball past cover for three. The crowd was now reluctantly dispersing to its own games, but it stopped as Mr. Downing started his minuet-cake-walk, in the hope that it might see something more sensational. This time the hope was fulfilled. The ball was well up, slow, and off the wicket on the on-side. Perhaps if it had been allowed to pitch, it might have broken in and become quite dangerous. Mike went out at it, and hit it a couple of feet from the ground. The ball dropped with a thud and a spurting of dust in the road that ran along one side of the cricket field. It was returned on the instalment system by helpers from other games, and the bowler began his manoeuvres again. A half-volley this time. Mike slammed it back, and mid-on, whose heart was obviously not in the thing, failed to stop it. “Get to them, Jenkins,” said Mr. Downing irritably, as the ball came back from the boundary. “Get to them.” “Sir, please, sir——” “Don’t talk in the field, Jenkins.” Having had a full-pitch hit for six and a half-volley for four, there was a strong probability that Mr. Downing would pitch his next ball short. The expected happened. The third ball was a slow long-hop, and hit the road at about the same spot where the first had landed. A howl of untuneful applause rose from the watchers in the pavilion, and Mike, with the feeling that this sort of bowling was too good to be true, waited in position for number four. There are moments when a sort of panic seizes a bowler. This happened now with Mr. Downing. He suddenly abandoned science and ran amok. His run lost its stateliness and increased its vigour. He charged up to the wicket as a wounded buffalo sometimes charges a gun. His whole idea now was to bowl fast. When a slow bowler starts to bowl fast, it is usually as well to be batting, if you can manage it. By the time the over was finished, Mike’s score had been increased by sixteen, and the total of his side, in addition, by three wides. And a shrill small voice, from the neighbourhood of the pavilion, uttered with painful distinctness the words, “Take him off!” That was how the most sensational day’s cricket began that Sedleigh had known. A description of the details of the morning’s play would be monotonous. It is enough to say that they ran on much the same lines as the third and fourth overs of the match. Mr. Downing bowled one more over, off which Mike helped himself to sixteen runs, and then retired moodily to cover-point, where, in Adair’s fifth over, he missed Barnes—the first occasion since the game began on which that mild batsman had attempted to score more than a single. Scared by this escape, Outwood’s captain shrank back into his shell, sat on the splice like a limpet, and, offering no more chances, was not out at lunch time with a score of eleven. Mike had then made a hundred and three. (Definitions OED) Stories of the “Not Really a Duffer” type: More school story tropes. We’ve all seen this movie. You know you have. Boot-room: “changing-room” in the 1953 text. Probably equivalent to what other sports would call a locker-room. For six: “a hit that reaches the boundary without first striking the ground, scoring six runs.” I think this is cricketese for “home run.” Sending down: “bowl a ball or an over.” Hobnail: “a short heavy-headed nail used to reinforce the soles of boots.” Took guard: “(of a batsman) stand in position ready to receive the ball, especially having asked the umpire to check the position of one’s bat with respect to the stumps.” Maiden: “an over in which no runs are scored.” Fieldsmen: “a player on the fielding team, especially one other than the bowler or pitcher.” Slows: i.e., slow bowls? Leg-bye: “a run scored from a ball that has touched part of the batsman’s body (apart from the hand) without touching the bat, the batsman having made an attempt to hit it.” Run: “a unit of scoring achieved by hitting the ball so that both batsmen are able to run between the wickets, or awarded in some other circumstances.” Single: “a hit for one run.” Square cut: Cut meaning“a stroke made with an abrupt, typically horizontal or downward action,” a square cut is “a cut hit square on the offside.” On-side: “occupy a position where playing the ball […] is allowed; not offside.” Mid-on: “a fielding position on the on-side near the bowler.” Short: “travelling only a small distance before bouncing.” Long-hop: “a short-pitched, easily hit ball.” Wides: “a ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.” Splice: “the wedge-shaped tang of a cricket-bat handle, forming a joint with the blade.” As shown in Diagram A. Limpet: “a marine mollousc which has a shallow conical shell and a broad muscular foot, proverbial for the way it clings tightly to rocks.”

As the anticipation builds for India's World Cup campaign opener against Australia in Chennai, the Indian cricket team engaged in a focused practice session