Not hatred, but for me I have seen Ricky bat and I have seen Sangakkara bat, and Ricky is better. I would go futher to say Ponting is also better than Kallis who is also yet to appear.why so much hatred on sangasI gues you're not from India
And probably better than Lara too
It is not hate, it just feels weird seeing a very good to great batsman being rated above ATGs-why so much hatred on sangas
Quite possibly, at the very least not as far apart as may think.And probably better than Lara too
So agree with this. I have seen a lot of Asian cricketers play over the years and except for SRT, I can't really say for sure if there has been a better test batsman from Asia.
this +1..........plus dont know why sanga is so underrated. agreed murali has been the foremost contributor in Lanka winning Test matches since 2000 (since sanga's debut), but without runs on the board even a great bowler like murali couldn't hv done much, most the time sanga has been the main contributor with the bat.........and in contrary to Punter who has had good to great Batsmen to follow him once he got out , plus had decent opening pairs throughout compared to Lankan's who've been very ordinary especially overseas........and yet people degrade sanga's stats..........
I would be saying exactly that for someone whose stats have been boosted by huge number of home games (/games in Asia)
If he averaged only 30 in England, 35 in South Africa, 34 in West Indies and 36 in India I would definitely question his high ranking - irrespective of where he came from. Since these are his actual numbers I totally disagree with him being ranked above Ponting, Border, Waugh, Chappell and Gavaskar.
If he was from a top four country he'd quite potentially have a less impressive record. In saying that, he has been a monster at home so I'm not surprised that he is well inside the top 20.
If his home country was Australia, would have been averaging five more runs than now. Plays better on wickets with pace than on sub continental tracks.
His poor records in England, West Indies and South Africa show that your assumption is very wrong.
Has not played much in WI so could say nothing about that. And if Australia was home he would play more matches and Aussie turfs as well. Put him on WI tracks, he will pile on runs given the WI attacks. In England he has been poor. (And BTW, he and SRT both averaged same against the current English attack. And we can see how SRt would do against Steyn, Morkel and Philander this time around to get and idea whether Sanga's record against them poor or not.)
