Sangakkara: Now THIS is form

[Mr. Wicket]

"Since surrendering the gloves last summer, Sangakkara has racked up 1529 runs in 14 innings, at the staggering average of 152.90. He's made seven centuries in that time, including a career-best 287, and of those times he's reached three figures, he hasn't been dismissed for less than 152." - Andrew Miller on CI ball by ball. The scary part. In his last 6 games (including this one), he's made scores of 156*, 8, 6, 200*, 222*, 57, 192, 92 and 152. Four scores of 150+ in four consecutive tests, or five in six tests. And this is spanning grounds from New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka. His test average right now stands at exactly 57. And while this states the obvious, he'd walk into just about any XI in the world right now.

[sm332]

best test batsman w/o a doubt ... carrying that lineup on his back

[Tapioca]

156*, 8, 6, 200*, 222*, 57, 192, 92 and 152.

Extend it by one more innings, Salil. He scored 4 & 100* in the previous Test.

[Mr. Wicket]

Cheers. I only looked up the last 5 matches option on StatsGuru (and added in his latest scores), cause I'm lazy :D

[The Outsider]

His overall career average when not keeping wickets is close to 100 IIRC.

[Dravid]

those double 100s were against bangla.. :P but still awesome form he is in..

[sm332]

those double 100s were against bangla.. :P but still awesome form he is in..

yeah but the other umpteen big scores came against all and sundry

[Bumper]

Great batsman for all conditions!

[beetle]

He is my most fav non Indian player.....

[Gambit]

The second SL batsman in their history to be seriously counted amongst the top 3 test batsmen in the world with the first one being Mad Max.

[guju24]

i think he is the best left hand batsman after lara in recent years....youngsters should really watch him and see how plays his shots....i love to watch him bat...saw his recent 192 against aus was just amezing to watch...great great player...

[jacky007]

hez got all kinda shots in his book so he is surely an amazing player, n carring on the same form i m sure hez very near to leave gr8 SL batsmans such as tunga, de-silva, surya etc. behind n being SL's best batsman in the history.

[DesiChap]

He is the best batsman in the world in test cricket at present

[fineleg]

In 2005-2006 when SL toured India, we beat them 6-1 in ODIs and we beat them 1-0 or 2-0 in Tests. KS was out of form then, thats the reason. If KS was in form, that would have been a closer series. AWESOME AWESOME player KS.

[Ram]

Just off the top of my head, post 2000 seems to be the best era for batsman since a long time. I cant remember when was the last time so many contemporary batsman are averaging close to 55 in test cricket all at the same time, A few in the list = Ponting, Sachin,Dravid, Sangakkara, Kallis, Hussey, Yousuf, Hayden ( almost),

[Chaos]

Just off the top of my head, post 2000 seems to be the best era for batsman since a long time. I cant remember when was the last time so many contemporary batsman are averaging close to 55 in test cricket all at the same time, A few in the list = Ponting, Sachin,Dravid, Sangakkara, Kallis, Hussey, Yousuf, Hayden ( almost),

please dont compare all those idiots to sachin please, he has been averaging 55+ from 1997 i think. Thats CONSISTENCY. all these moron's are making it up for the lack of GOOD bowlers.

[Holysmoke]

In 2005-2006 when SL toured India, we beat them 6-1 in ODIs and we beat them 1-0 or 2-0 in Tests. KS was out of form then, thats the reason. If KS was in form, that would have been a closer series. AWESOME AWESOME player KS.

what? no.. iirc he had a huge hundred in the same game dhobi made that 183*

[fineleg]

holy, thanks. i forgot. but i think he was bit off color that series, right?

[Chaos]

holy' date=' thanks. i forgot. but i think he was bit off color that series, right?[/quote'] but our bowling was very good that series.