Current Top Five Batsmen of Cricket

Best 5 batsmen present currently

Cricket is a game played by two teams and each team can either bowl or bat a time. Bowling team delivers the balls at the playing batsman and batsman hits the balls to score the runs. In today’s time, the game has become more oriented towards the batting side and there have been many legends who have shown their batting capabilities.

Sachin Tendulkar of India is without doubt a number one batsman in the current world of cricket. He has scored over 30,000 runs in both the forms of cricket (Test and ODI) with 90 centuries and is the best batsman ever.

At the second place comes the current skipper of Sri Lanka, Kumara Sangakkara, who has scored much number of runs with playing the role of wicket-keeper at the fielding time.

Third one is Mohammad Yusuf of Pakistan who has the record of scoring five consecutive centuries and has contributed a lot with to Pakistan Cricket team.

Fourth batsman to be amongst current top five batsmen is Australian Skipper Ricky Ponting who has scored more than eleven thousand runs with 39 centuries in his test career and has always performed as a batsman with his duty of captain.

The last and fifth batsman of the list is Jacques Kallis from South Africa who has scored more than ten-thousand runs in test cricket and has always been a back-bone for South African cricket team.

Teams with Best Test Cricket Records

Which teams have the best test records?

A cricket is a team game played with bat and ball and it is necessary to either learn bowling or batting in order to become a part of a cricket team. A cricket match is played between two teams where one team does the bowling and other team does the batting. The international cricket is played in three formats Test matches, One-Day Internationals, and Twenty-20. The toughest format of all is Test Cricket where cricket is played for five continuous days.

The best team in the test arena is Australia who has won three-hundred and thirty-seven (337) test matches out of seven-hundred and sixteen (716) played by them with the winning percentage of 46.87%, which is the highest winning percentage by any team till now. South African team is at the second number with the winning percentage of 34.77%. Then comes the English Cricket team that has won 34.74% of matches and the number of winning matches is three-hundred and eleven (311) out of eight-hundred and ninety-five (895) tests played. Next is the West Indian cricket team that has winning percentage of 32.90% with winning one-hundred and fifty-two (152) matches. The fifth in this list is Sri Lanka that has winning percentage of 31.25% with winning sixty (60) test matches out of one-hundred and ninety-two (192) test matches played by them.

Top Five Captains of World Cricket

Best captains of world cricket

Cricket is a game played with teams. At a time, one team can bowl & field whereas another team can bat. Bowling team delivers the ball to the batsman and batsman hits the ball. But, in order to win the game there should be a good captain that can lead the team from front. Let us look at some of the best captains who are present in world cricket.

1. MS Dhoni: Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the team India captain who leads his team to new heights. He has an unbelievable record of being undefeated test captain in his career.
2. Ricky Ponting: A punter from Australia who not only leads his team but always take his team out of trouble when the team needs him most with his batting as well as fielding abilities.
3. Daniel Vettori: A current New Zealand captain and one of the best all-rounders who leads his team with scoring runs, taking wickets and providing crucial strategies to win the game.
4. Graeme Smith: The youngest ever captain of South Africa who is the only captain to win the test series in Australia under his leadership.
5. Kumara Sangakkara: A potential captain who is playing three important roles of captain, batsman, and wicket-keeper. He has taken his team into newer heights.

How to score in Cricket?

Ways of scoring in cricket

Cricket is a team game to be played with bat and ball. There are two main aspects of cricket- batting and bowling. At a time, a team can either do bowling or batting. A team that bats, scores the runs and team that bowls bowled out the balls (or called as deliveries). The score is an important factor of the game as like other games. Today, let us see the granularity of the cricket score, or how cricket score is displayed or what is the scoring method in cricket.

The cricket score is written in the format of run/wicket or wicket/run, example- 245/8 or 8/245. In this score, single digit (8) indicates the number of fallen wickets for the batting team and figure 245 shows the number of runs scored by a batting team. The total number of wickets dedicated to a team is only ten, due to that reason, wicket digit can only go up to ten (10) whereas, number of runs scored depends on the format of the game. In a test cricket, number of runs scored can be anything. In an ODI cricket, there is a limit of fifty overs, so it can be limited and can be scored within fifty overs.

Scorers and Umpires in Cricket

What does umpires do?

Cricket is a sport played between two teams with number of runs scored by batting team and number bowls bowled by bowling team. If batsman is batting and bowler is bowling, there is an official present who can count the number of balls bowled by bowler and numbers of runs scored by batsman. Such an official is known to as a scorer. Scorer is given a score book where he can write score of runs as well as score of balls and all other details like number of wide balls bowled or number of boundaries scored by a batsman, and many such details. Whenever an umpire gives a decision, scorer acknowledges him and adds the details into his score book.

Now, think about a case where batsman edges the ball through to keeper who is officially out but who will decide that yes, this is out. Umpire is such official who stands on the field to make such decisions while cricket is played and gives the decision. On the boundary scored by a batsman, he indicates a boundary. In case of appeal by bowler and fielding team for the wicket of a batsman, umpire makes a decision whether batsman is out or not. In short, umpire is an official who presides over the match and maintains proper functioning of the match.

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