Batting is an art. It carries rich records for those who excel in it.
Cricket is undoubtedly a batsman's game.
On a cricket stage, the batsman is the star actor. In the recently concluded Zimbabwe-Sri Lanka Test match, Marvan Atapattu scored a brilliant unconquered 217 runs and carried the bat throughout the innings, as an opener. No doubt these two feats are great. Through experience, I can say that openers are explorers of cricket. Everytime they go out, they are entering an unknown, unfamiliar territory.