板球运动中，击球是指用来避免出局和获取得分而使用球板将球击出的动作或技巧。

每支板球队通常拥有十一名队员，所有队员都有击球的可能性。擅长击球或正在击球的球员通常称为击球手，击球手的主要目标是尽力避免出局并为本队争取得分跑。

在特定时间内，一方球队仅有两名击球手可以击球（另一队的所有队员作为防守队员进行防守）。击球手可在每局击球直至出局。一旦一名击球手出局，他的队友将代替他击球，直到此队十一名队员中的十名出局，则他们的击球局结束。

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke. The term specialist batsman is also used generically to describe players who specialise in batting (as opposed to e.g. bowlers who specialise in bowling), and the term bowler is also used in this context. The latter term can, however, refer to any player during their turn at bat. In women's cricket, the term batswoman is sometimes encountered, as is batter, but the "male" form is widely used in both men's and women's cricket.