MasterBlaster24
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
2 ATGs from Asia. Who is the better test batter out of these two?
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Sangakkara vs Gavaskar
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DrWolverine
International Debutant
Sunny
sayon basak
International Captain
Gavaskar.
govinda indian fan
State Vice-Captain
Sunny faced atg bowlers on bowler friendly surfaces as an opener. I while i respect sanga but he played on most batting friendly era and did badly vs McGrath and was average vs styen both of them who are atgs
You got to see avg with some context,
Top 5 tests teams during Sanga's career:
Sanga's Avg against top sides: 45
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Sides outside of Top 5 and minnows during Sanga's career:
Sanga's avg against bottom/minnow sides: 71
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His career avg is high due to 67 tests he played at avg of 71 against bottom/minnow sides.
Narayana
U19 Debutant
What is icc xi?
Narayana
U19 Debutant
Didn't knew this, good one
capt_Luffy
International Coach
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-world-xi-only-test-221840/live-cricket-score
It was an Australia vs RoW XI game
MasterBlaster24
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
During Sanga's career, Pakistan was a formidable team, with exceptional bowlers.
sayon basak
International Captain
Instead of going by W/L ratio, you should go by bowling averages of those teams.
sayon basak
International Captain
Better bowling average than India tho.
Nah, doing well against top teams is not just about bowling. Good teams pile up big scores and put you under pressure. It's easier to face good bowlers if they are playing for relatively poor teams. It's much harder ot face good bowlers when they play for great treams like Aus/WI of previous era.
We can surely look at bowling avg but it's not a substitute of facing and doing well against top teams.
Highlighted bowlers were not exceptional.
Akhtar and Asif were good, but taken together they played only 4 tests against Sanga. Sanga played 19 tests where they were not playing.
Over all yes, but not in Asia where Sanga played those two teams.
40-45% of total runs of Sanga came against BD/Zim/Pak. Nothing wrong in that, but that's why I said career avg needs ot be seen with context. All career runs and career avg are not the same. On top of that, it was the most flat era with 19 batsmen averaging 50 plus duriong his career with more than 3K runs.
Batsmen with Avg of 50 plus during exact period when Sanga's played: 19 batsmen with 50+ avg & 3K runs.
Sanga's career avg his high due to super flat track period and him having 40-45% of his runs against BD/Zim/Pak. Seeing everything gives some context . Otherwise I see many fans going over board in rating Sanga based on his career Avg.
He was a good batsman but not anywhere close to what his career avg may indicate.