Haha, so much this. People are so much more obsessed with an ability to play on fast, seaming tracks than slow turning ones. You'd think Australia and England had never produced a flat wicket in their history the way people seem to discount Sanga's runs at home.
Now these were the tracks that were supposed to be tailor made for Muralitharan, and spin paradises.
You are seriously comparing an average player based on his recent abiltiy (tendulkar) with someone who has been more or less in his peak? Come on. Obviously Sanga is more likely to do well against quality attacks than the recent Tendulkar who's 40+
Missing the point-
with like a 90 avg and 9 100s in dozen or so games. (reminds me of Sehwag in this respect)
No, Murali is arguably the best bowler ever based on just stats- well ahead of Warne etc IMO
Going just with memory (cbf looking it up) but I think that Sehwag had pummelled more ordinary attacks compared to Sanga.Missing the point-
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In 29 Tests without gloves against Asians, he avgs 85+ with 15 100s and 13 50s, which is outstanding but it significantly inflates his overall stats, just like how him having played so much at home/in asia has. Maybe if he had never kept, he would've been a true ATG idk. But he did keep wickets from time to time, so thats all we can go by..
Look, if sangakkara had had a couple of truly great series overseas to go with countless great ones at home/in asia, then it would've been a different story- I wouldn't have been dissatisfied with him finishing so high and ahead of so many ATGs.
I just feel you are being quite biased since Sangakkara has thoroughly performed like a god against Pakistan
They are tailor made for Murali, the difference is that except for when Warne came to town they were not any other spinners around to exploit them from opposing teams. The tracks are slow and useless for opposing seamers of which most opposing teams attacks are primarily made up. The wickets in Sri Lanka are roads for pace bolwers and cannon fodder for the likes of Sangakkara and Mahela who have fully exploited them. It also wouldn't be so bad if he didn't play such a disproportionate amout of games at home or played more games againts Bangladesh than Australia and all of this in an era Steyn apart is devoid of great fast bolwers.
Strange because he played no minnows (South Africa, India, New Zealand) before the war and only played againts England and Australia while being part of the weakest batting line up of that and most other eras. You are probably thinking of the other great batsmen of the era.
Think Hutton and Headley will both be higher, Hutton due to the bowling attacks he faced and Headley because of his importance to his team.
So you're saying high scores push a batsman's average up? Cheers for that insight.
I thought it just had the one flat pitch.
Of course - it's the place where all those bookmakers come from isn't it?
Sanga and SRT bothe average very similar against Donald and Pollock. SRT was in his peak, and Sanga was starting his career. So could be argued otherway round as well.
Hi! says Saqlain and Vettori.
Simply opposing seamers did not know how to bowl. Just check what Wasim, Waqar and Asif did on these tracks as well as Vaas. It was inability of the touring seamers rather than pitches.
If SL played Australia more or in Aus more Sanga would have had much better stats! He loves batting in Austraia than in Bangladesh or India.
Excuses, excuses. Have a three test series tomorrow in WI against WI, Sanga is pretty dead set to score more than 300 runs for the series.
Jou just said he has played a lot in SC? Then must have more centuries in SC than in other countries. Can't have the cake and eat it too.
No, he didn't make the cut. Miandad was at 50.
