Batting All-Rounder

A Batting All-Rounder is a person who can bat and bowl well, but a bit better at batting. The number of Batting All-Rounders are really low. Great players who are Batting All-Rounders are Joe Root, Aiden Markram, Sachin Tendulkar and Gary Sobers.

Position

A Batting All-Rounder usually plays at no.3 to no.7. Players like Sachin Tendulkar usually play at the opening position. When they get the chance to bowl in ODI Cricket, they bowl at the 30th - 50th overs of the game. Sachin Tendulkar, Joe Root, Gary Sobers are the only Batting All-Rounders who have scored centuries and taken 5-wicket hauls in Test Cricket. Gary Sobers is the greatest Batting All-Rounder in the world.

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