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Why Sangakkara is the best cricketer from the Asian subcontinent the game has ever seen

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Tendulkar' date=' Dravid, Gavaskar, Sehwag - these four are distinctly ahead of Sanga as batsmen.[/quote'] No way on Sehwag. No way and I personally as much as I love Dravid, I think Kumar is a tad better but that's my opinion. Obviously Tendulkar is better and I have a lot of respect for Gavaskar. Sangakkara with an average of 56 has to be good and ODI average of 40 helps. A keeper that manages to keep an average above 50 throughout his keeping days is incredible and just a great batsman to watch. Sure he has scored a lot of tons at home but which batsman hasn't? There is a reason why playing at home is such an advantage. The best knock I've seen him play and a lot of Australians will agree that Kumar is a class act is the 192 in Hobart where chasing 507 on a Hobart deck he got 192 and Sri Lanka just lost by 96 runs. He has an average 60.33 in Australia and not many players have that. He scored a ton in South Africa's last loss at home with 108 against Steyn, Morkal and de Lange. He scored a ton in England to save Sri Lanka against Prime England with Anderson, Broad, Swann and decent Tremlett just the season after England crushed Australia in Australia. The guy is bloody underrated and doesn't get the respect he deserves. Watch his 192 in Hobart, it is one of the best innings I've seen by an subcontinent player in Australia (Laxman in 99/00, Tendulkar in 03/04 are the better ones)
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No way on Sehwag. No way and I personally as much as I love Dravid, I think Kumar is a tad better but that's my opinion. Obviously Tendulkar is better and I have a lot of respect for Gavaskar. Sangakkara with an average of 56 has to be good and ODI average of 40 helps. A keeper that manages to keep an average above 50 throughout his keeping days is incredible and just a great batsman to watch. Sure he has scored a lot of tons at home but which batsman hasn't? There is a reason why playing at home is such an advantage. The best knock I've seen him play and a lot of Australians will agree that Kumar is a class act is the 192 in Hobart where chasing 507 on a Hobart deck he got 192 and Sri Lanka just lost by 96 runs. He has an average 60.33 in Australia and not many players have that. He scored a ton in South Africa's last loss at home with 108 against Steyn, Morkal and de Lange. He scored a ton in England to save Sri Lanka against Prime England with Anderson, Broad, Swann and decent Tremlett just the season after England crushed Australia in Australia. The guy is bloody underrated and doesn't get the respect he deserves. Watch his 192 in Hobart, it is one of the best innings I've seen by an subcontinent player in Australia (Laxman in 99/00, Tendulkar in 03/04 are the better ones)
That too, he was wrongly given out.
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CSK Fan Newbie

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​​ Sanga's record as a specialist batsman against top teams only (excluding Zim and Bangla) http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;keeper=0;opposition=1;opposition=140;opposition=2;opposition=3;opposition=4;opposition=5;opposition=6;opposition=7;opposition=8;orderby=batting_average;qualmin1=2000;qualval1=runs;template=results;type=batting No modern batsman even close to him in terms of the batting average. For the people who moan about smaller sample size, Sanga has a bigger sample size than the past greats surrounded him in that list. .
The only problem with this is that you are taking the average of a player still on top with ones who went through a decline and retired. At his peak Ponting averaged over 60 and the same argument was used vis a vis him and Sachin. In the end he retired with an average lesser than Sachin. Sachin averaged 59 at his peak. Dravid averaged around 58 at his peak. All of them retired with much lesser average. So the comparison is not fair
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randomGuy Mentor

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Sangu played in an era where averaging 50 is not that big a deal. Neverthless he is a batsman with very few weaknesses. Proficient against both spin and pace.
right. He made debut 13.5 yrs back and has 24k+ runs. Can he break sachins record of total runs, test cricket runs etc?
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Marut Newbie

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No way on Sehwag. No way and I personally as much as I love Dravid, I think Kumar is a tad better but that's my opinion. Obviously Tendulkar is better and I have a lot of respect for Gavaskar. Sangakkara with an average of 56 has to be good and ODI average of 40 helps. A keeper that manages to keep an average above 50 throughout his keeping days is incredible and just a great batsman to watch. Sure he has scored a lot of tons at home but which batsman hasn't? There is a reason why playing at home is such an advantage. The best knock I've seen him play and a lot of Australians will agree that Kumar is a class act is the 192 in Hobart where chasing 507 on a Hobart deck he got 192 and Sri Lanka just lost by 96 runs. He has an average 60.33 in Australia and not many players have that. He scored a ton in South Africa's last loss at home with 108 against Steyn, Morkal and de Lange. He scored a ton in England to save Sri Lanka against Prime England with Anderson, Broad, Swann and decent Tremlett just the season after England crushed Australia in Australia. The guy is bloody underrated and doesn't get the respect he deserves. Watch his 192 in Hobart, it is one of the best innings I've seen by an subcontinent player in Australia (Laxman in 99/00, Tendulkar in 03/04 are the better ones)
Sehwag takes it because he is a born match winner, Sanga averages a bit more and Sehwag scores runs about 60% faster, both of them not so good outside the SC - so it is Sehwag. Dravid is one of the few cricketers who average more away than at home, and Sanga, inspite of playing mostly in an era without very formidable bowlers, and mostly at home and against weaker teams, definitely ranks below Dravid. Sanga also averages in the low 30s or mid 30s in four major nations, that is a distinct weakness.
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maniac Grand Master

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Personally I would watch an innings of FTB Lady Jaya over SangaKara but will not take away credit where due...Cashing in against Weaker teams is an art in itself. Sangakkara may not be what the OP describes or even top 5 SC player of all time but he has earned the respect to be called a ATG no denying that.

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jalebi_bhai Rising Star

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Sangakkara will always be the nearly man of Sri Lankan cricket.........great player.........but hardly someone to look upto.......one of my Sri Lankan friends in Dubai once got the opportunity to bowl at Sangakkara and Mahela in the nets........Nanga was very rude and arrogant to all the net bowlers.......Mahela was quite the opposite........

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randomGuy Mentor

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Sangakkara will always be the nearly man of Sri Lankan cricket.........great player.........but hardly someone to look upto.......one of my Sri Lankan friends in Dubai once got the opportunity to bowl at Sangakkara and Mahela in the nets........Nanga was very rude and arrogant to all the net bowlers.......Mahela was quite the opposite........
may be your friend n others were just rubbish bowlers n sanga thought his practice time was getting wasted?:p
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