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On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.
I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there's exactly the place I want to be.
An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.
After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.
You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.
If any IPL team wants me to be a mentor or a batting consultant, I would love to do that. I can share my knowledge with the youngsters.
I was someone who used to bat up the order. Due to different reasons, I started batting at No. 7, and that became a permanent slot for me.
I just want to enjoy the game and work on all aspects - batting, bowling, and fielding. The more I enjoy my game, the better I can perform.
What I intend to do is to launch a batting academy. I have been a batsman throughout my life, and I can't open a bowling academy after all!
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.
I never thought I'd rather watch England's cricketers batting for a draw than their footballers in the World Cup but it was a lot more exciting.
Playing at different positions is a challenge, and I've always believed that I can play in any situation and at any number in the batting order.
Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.
Some of the apps I use are Google Maps, Amazon, Zomato and Facetime. I also use media player so that I can watch my batting videos and some movies.
From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
I love to score runs rather than defending or leaving the ball. That is an important aspect of my batting: I don't want to waste balls in any form of the game.
The loss in the final of the 2017 World Cup really inspired me to do a lot better. I worked a lot on my batting as I didn't want to go back to that phase again.
In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.
The batting coach does his job. He tells them the basic faults and helps them improve their technique. But if the batsman is in form then he has to carry that form.
Someone enjoys your batting, and someone, your humour. Since I'm not batting any longer, I can at least say some words, so people enjoy and give me compliments, too.
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.
I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
Michael Atherton's powers of concentration never cease to amaze me. When you need reminding what Test-match batting is all about, who else would you have at the other end?
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Kohli is a huge addition to the side not just because of his batting but with his attitude as well. He lifts everyone on the field. There is so much passion in his cricket.
You've just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You've got to go out there and just keep playing.
The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.
I was a pitcher, played third base, shortstop. I was good at all the positions and great at none. All it takes is a .111 lifetime batting average to make you go into acting.