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Is Sangakara the best bat since Bradman?
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SillyCowCorner1
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Need to rephrase the question.
Was Bradman the best batsman prior to Sangakkara?
Was Bradman the best batsman prior to Sangakkara?
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Smith averages more than him despite having a good chunk of his career take place in one of the hardest batting eras ever while sangakarra's entire career took place in the 2000's batting boom. Lara and Tendulkar also had to play a good chunk of there career's in the 90's, which sangha didn't.
I'm sure there's some argument for one of the pre modern era England openers like Hobbs being better aswell, but I don't see how you get him clearly above smith/lara/Tendulkar even before you dig deeper into nation by nation stats and that type of crap.
I'm sure there's some argument for one of the pre modern era England openers like Hobbs being better aswell, but I don't see how you get him clearly above smith/lara/Tendulkar even before you dig deeper into nation by nation stats and that type of crap.
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By orders of magnitude, yes.
Patience and Accuracy+Gut
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Clearly between Smith and Sobers.Sanga is somewhere between 10-15.
TheJediBrah
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There are plenty others better than Sangakkara tbh. Smith, Lara, Sachin are just the obvious ones
trundler
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If we're taking patience, accuracy and guts into account then surely it's Hutton
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This hits the nail on the head. Sri Lanka in the 00s played an absurd amount of Test cricket against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, and in suiting conditions to boot. Sangakkara averaged what he did in the same games that saw Thilan Samaraweera average 50 in Test cricket. All these stats need to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Yeah
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flibbertyjibber
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I'm too young for them and as much as I respect Sanga I'd say Smith, Tendulkar, Lara and Richards were all better.
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There's a lot of fat in his record. Averages 46 overall and 43 overseas in Tests against sides except Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Did have to face the odd good spell from Shoaib, Asif and he was very good against Ajmal but the pitches were often incredibly flat in his Tests against them, decent bit of padding in there.
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Apart from Sobers, Lara, and Pollock (small sample size) which others lefties were better?
Sanga should be ahead of Border, G Smith, Hayden, Flower, Hussey, Gilchrist etc.
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This is hyperbole. If we're not rating Sanga because his record is inflated then G Pollock with his precisely 0 tests against notable pacers can't be ranked ahead either. Or Harvey who never did much of note against a good pace attack. Sobers and Lara were better, of course, but there's really no one else who can possibly be considered better than Sanga.