[1] Often pinch hitters aren't expected to stay for too long and hence, are usually lower order batters or all rounders whom the batting side can afford to lose in the effort to score quick runs.
[1] The term was introduced to cricket during the 1992 World Cup when New Zealand employed the tactic to good effect with Mark Greatbatch and England promoted Ian Botham to a similar role.
[4] Krishnamachari Srikkanth of India is considered one of the pioneers of pinch hitting when he played similar form of cricket more than ten years before Greatbatch when the term was not coined.
[4][5] After the success of Sri Lanka in the 1996 World cup, more players like Shahid Afridi of Pakistan, Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa and Adam Gilchrist of Australia started adapting the same.
[3] Sachin Tendulkar and Mark Waugh adapted a different way of playing the role by scoring rapidly by using classical styles to find the gaps in the field rather than go over the top.