Batting average player's skill as a batter. Most players have career batting averages in the range of 20 to 40. Among players with a minimum of 20 innings played or completed, the highest Test batting average belongs to Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, with 99.94. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred." In modern times, a season batting average higher than .300 is considered to be excellent, and an
Batting (cricket) team principally because of their batting skill is referred to as a specialist batsman, or simply "batsman", regardless of whether they are currently batting. (A specialist bowler, on the other hand, would be referred to as a "batsman" only while actually engaged in batting.) In women's cricket, the term "bats woman" is sometimes encountered, as is "batter", but 'batsman' is widely used in both men's and women's cricket. The batsman's act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke. Over time a standard batting technique has been developed which is used by most batsmen. Technique refers to the