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Who is the best batsmen in the world?

 
 
Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 09:30 am
Type your best batsmen name
 
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 09:50 am
@healthexperts7,
Christian Bale.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 09:52 am
@eurocelticyankee,
Some might say Adam West or Kevin Conroy from the animated series.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 10:14 am

Bat Masterson has gotta be in the top ten...
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 10:43 am
My dad had a thing about Len Hutton.

http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/153300/153327.jpg

You can tell he's from Yorkshire.
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emmett grogan
 
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Reply Tue 8 Aug, 2017 09:00 pm
Oddly enough me mum had a thing fer him, too.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 01:11 am
@emmett grogan,
By 'eck!
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 02:39 am
@izzythepush,
‘Ey up, Ow do?




izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 03:41 am
@eurocelticyankee,
All my family are from Yorkshire, when we were last there the kid thought I was taking the piss out of their accents, but it wasn't me. They do talk like someone taking the piss out of them, well they do in Goole anyway.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 04:56 am
Babe Ruth did all right.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:27 am
@edgarblythe,
Isn't he called a batter, not a batsman?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:30 am
@izzythepush,
bats·man
ˈbatsmən/Submit
noun
plural noun: batsmen
a player, especially in baseball and cricket, who is batting or whose chief skill is in batting.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:38 am
@edgarblythe,
Sorry, from what little I know of baseball I thought they were referred to as batters, but I'll bow to your superior knowledge.

A baseball player only has to face a maximum of 3 balls per innings, that's half an over. In the watered down 20/20 matches 120 balls are bowled per side, for one day matches it's 80 overs and test matches are something else entirely. You can't really judge a batsman unless he's spent the best part of a day, or even longer, at the crease.
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:39 am
@edgarblythe,

hitters aren't called batsmen, but fielders are called basemen...
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:39 am
@izzythepush,
I'm no expert. But, batter works as well.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:42 am
@edgarblythe,
This guy deserves some recognition.
https://i.imgur.com/1p0zvks.jpg
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:44 am
Here's Merriam Webster

batsman /ˈbætsmən/ noun
plural batsmen
Learner's definition of BATSMAN
[count]
: a player who is batting especially in the game of cricket
a skillful batsman
◊ The player who is batting in baseball is usually called the batter, but a batter who has been hit by a pitch is called a hit batsman.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 9 Aug, 2017 05:44 am
@edgarblythe,
And whatever's left over can be used on a nice bit of cod.
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Ponderer
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2017 06:52 pm
@healthexperts7,
Since this is not limited to American players, I never saw a more dramatic player than Bela Lugosi.
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emmett grogan
 
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Reply Fri 11 Aug, 2017 12:06 pm
@izzythepush,
Quote:
Isn't he called a batter, not a batsman?


I'm sure the late Mr Babe Ruth owned several bats at any one time. That would qualify him as some sort of batsman, wouldn't it?
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