[2] In October 2021, Batty retired from playing cricket and became a member of the coaching team at Surrey.
[4] After eight years at Worcestershire during which he won England recognition, Batty signed a contract to return to Surrey for the 2010 season.
[5] Batty was involved in an unsavoury incident while deputising as captain for Surrey in a Championship match against Somerset at Taunton in 2012.
Batty declined several invitations by the umpires to withdraw the appeal leading to bad feeling between the teams and around the ground.
[6] In August 2013, he was suspended from the T20 finals day after a clash with Somerset batsman Peter Trego.
The ECB banned him for two games after he apparently physically confronted Trego and hurled foul language after dismissing him in a quarter-final match.
An even better year with the ball in Division One in 2016, combined with poor form for Moeen Ali, led to calls for his recall to the England test team after its draw against Pakistan.
Batty was the bowler Brian Lara faced when he scored his world record 400th run in the fourth Test Match in Antigua.
He kept his place for the final match of the series, finishing with figures of 0–22 as England won by five wickets.
He went on to play in the fourth match of the ODI series against Zimbabwe, taking figures of 0–36 as England secured a 74 run victory.
He replaced spinning all-rounder Samit Patel, who dropped out due to fitness concerns, and Swann who returned home after the Test series to undergo an operation on his elbow.