Sangakkara will overtake tendulkar

[India-KXIP fan]

Younis Khan? 2397 runs @45 in 31 matches outside Asia. Nearly the same as Sanga (he has 2830 in 34 matches @47).

SRT?

[Sachin=GOD]

SRT?

6247 runs @50 in 77 matches. Averages 53 in Aus, 54 in Eng, 49 in NZ, 47 in WI and 46 in SA.

[BlueBee]

He'll soon go through such a bad patch that he won't have another way but to retire.

[KeyboardWarrior]

He has scored 2830 runs outside Asia in his entire career.

Younis Khan? 2397 runs @45 in 31 matches outside Asia. Nearly the same as Sanga (he has 2830 in 34 matches @47).

6247 runs @50 in 77 matches. Averages 53 in Aus' date=' 54 in Eng, 49 in NZ, 47 in WI and 46 in SA.[/quote'] S=G bhai jan ..... :hatsoff:

[Sachin=GOD]

S=G bhai jan ..... :hatsoff:

cricinfo :hatsoff: :--D

[KeyboardWarrior]

cricinfo :hatsoff: :--D

I know .... :winky: But phir bhi .... :hatsoff: to you Bro ....

[thongale]

Yes, he only faced a rampaging Steyn (who was at his best) and Morkel on the Cape Town pitch. Made a paltry 146.

No Philander there. And guess, what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.

[FischerTal]

No Philander there. And guess' date=' what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.[/quote'] In South Africa or Sri Lanka?

[India-KXIP fan]

No Philander there. And guess' date=' what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.[/quote'] Philander started well but as expected isn't anywhere near as good as his current average indicates. Last 5 tests only 9 wickets and average increasing. Will continue to increase. Philtrundler showing true colours. Purple patch over.

[CG]

as said kallis added extra dimension to sa attack.

[Marco Polo]

You are opening too many useless threads Vijay. Just too many..

[CSK Fan]

No Philander there. And guess' date=' what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.[/quote'] This is just clutching at straws now. This was an aging way past SRT, compared to Sanga who was in his prime form. For some reason you are comparing a guy at his prime with a guy who was past it. At his prime sachin used to average 65 in England. You are for some odd reason, looking at the series when he was way past it. That is like assuming Ponting was a 20 averaging batsman and Bradman a 0 averaging player based on their last series and match respectively

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No Philander there. And guess' date=' what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.[/quote'] Philander did not play that test match and over the years,Durban pitch has slowed down..In England,they used 2010 batch of Duke balls against India.

[thongale]

This is just clutching at straws now. This was an aging way past SRT, compared to Sanga who was in his prime form. For some reason you are comparing a guy at his prime with a guy who was past it. At his prime sachin used to average 65 in England. You are for some odd reason, looking at the series when he was way past it. That is like assuming Ponting was a 20 averaging batsman and Bradman a 0 averaging player based on their last series and match respectively

I was looking at the series where both of thes players played the similar attack in similar conditions. Don't forget that against same set of bowlers Dravid averaged 50+ and Samaraweera averaged 50, both were past their primes. Sanaga's best really came after that series too. Can point out to many silimilar series and the average isn't much different.

[thongale]

In South Africa or Sri Lanka?

:--D

[thongale]

Philander did not play that test match and over the years' date='Durban pitch has slowed down..In England,they used 2010 batch of Duke balls against India.[/quote']Somebody said clutching straws. The SL and IND series happened back to back and what ever balls used were from the same batch and bowlers were also similar.

[cricketfan28]

he may overtake him .. but will never be rated as a better batsman

[thongale]

If he fixes his averages to get 40+_ in every country then he'll be better than Tendulkar. If some one says who average 40+ against every condition, average 58+ and has 16k runs is not greater than Tendulkar, it's blind fanboyism. And TBH, ICF is one of the worse places where blind fanboyism exist.

[vamos_rafa]

If he fixes his averages to get 40+_ in every country then he'll be better than Tendulkar. If some one says who average 40+ against every condition' date=' average 58+ and has 16k runs is not greater than Tendulkar, it's blind fanboyism. And TBH, ICF is one of the worse places where blind fanboyism exist.[/quote'] Let him do all of that. You are saying as if he's scored 16k+ runs averaging 58.

[rkt.india]

No Philander there. And guess' date=' what, Sanga faced all three of them and made a century. Addition of Philander takes that attack a level above what SRT played, BTW these two played a series against Anderson, Broad, Tremlett and Finn, and Sanga had bit of difficult condition to bat comparatively. Sanga averaged something like 36 and SRT like 39. Against similar attack, I would pick these two to score even stevens. But SRT has the upper hand against top class spin attacks.[/quote'] Kohli scored 100 against, Steyn, Morkel, Philander. he must be better than Tendu too.