I'm going to get a lot of stick for bias here but here goes anyway;

37 test hundreds, only 6 have come outside the subcontinent.

Jayawardene - 34 test hundreds, 5 have come outside the subcontinent.

Compared with Tendulkar, 51 test hundreds, 18 outside subcontinent.

I find both him and Jayawardene to be a bit of FTBs.

Class player and great record scored 6000+ of runs in sri-lanka.. so nearly half his runs away from home.
Sangakara only averages 36 in India. so not all sub continent counries hes does well in.
Yet averages 60 in Australia. 41 average in England is pretty good too.

Let's not forget he played something like 47 tests as a a lower order wicket keeper and since giving up the gloves his batting average is in excess of 70.

Brilliant player and probably the best player ever from Sub Content. He should go down as a great.

Another match saving double ton in NZ

Runs in subcontinent are still runs. It's s place where most overseas batsman struggle big time even though the same people emd up claiming its a flat track.

To me sanga will go down as one of the best batsman to play the game. His record speaks volumes. He is also probably one of the very few left handers to have a good technique. I hv seen so many left handers having lots of weaknesses such as Cook, dhawan, Graeme smith and so on.

A true great, perhaps he doesn't get the plaudits because he's from Sri Lanka, one con only imagine the fuss if he were Indian.

comment by Wetherbyterrier (U2075)
posted 14 hours, 29 minutes ago
A true great, perhaps he doesn't get the plaudits because he's from Sri Lanka, one con only imagine the fuss if he were Indian.
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or he was representing the England team

Vinz,

Sangakkara has averaged 48 outside the subcontinent. If I include UAE also (although geographically not the subcontinent, some might call as part of the subcontinent for cricket as Pakistan plays its home games there), his average is 50.

Either way, he has done well outside the subcontinent.

He has at least 10 centuries outside the subcontinent (not including UAE).

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;host=1;host=2;host=3;host=4;host=5;host=9;orderby=batting_average;qualmin1=20;qualval1=matches;team=25;team=6;team=7;team=8;template=results;type=batting

The above stats are subcontinental cricketers outside the subcontinent.

If we include UAE, stats look like this:
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;host=1;host=2;host=27;host=3;host=4;host=5;host=9;orderby=batting_average;qualmin1=20;qualval1=matches;team=25;team=6;team=7;team=8;template=results;type=batting

The fact is SL is not invited to play much outside the subcontinent. Of the 130 tests Sanga played, only 36 were outside the subcontinent. Between 2004-2014, SL played played only 7 tests in Australia and of these, Sanga played in 5. Even when are invited to Australia, they are sent to play test cricket in places like Cairns, Hobart, and Darwin. Sanga has done quite well outside the subcontinent in the few matches he played. It's not his fault that his team does not get invited often, probably due to financial reasons.

As we have seen in the current Aus V India series and NZ v SL that even down under you tend to see flat tracks. Australia has always been good for batting but in the past they had some great players that dominated visiting sides.

West Indies tracks are flat as Asia.

Only in England and SA are the conditions likely to foreign to Sub Continent batsman.

comment by Lefty (U17934)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
comment by Wetherbyterrier (U2075)
posted 14 hours, 29 minutes ago
A true great, perhaps he doesn't get the plaudits because he's from Sri Lanka, one con only imagine the fuss if he were Indian.
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or he was representing the England team
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For that an Englishman would have to reach 12,000 runs

In all seriousness I'm a big fan of Sanga - his elegance and style of play helps because it looks so good on the eye and 12k runs at the end of the day are still 12k regardless of where they've been scored in my view. Class act.

infact even SA have become pretty flat these days. Since Aus got that 47 thereafter pitches have pretty flat

Among the two most prolific SL batsmen of this era, Mahela J clearly struggled outside the subcontinent. Not the case with Sanga.

I would include Sangakkara in my all-time subcontinent XI and certainly in the current world XI, but not in the all-time world XI where the competition is too high with Bradman, Lara, Tendulkar, Ponting, G Pollock, Kallis, etc.

I would pick Sangakkara for any XI over Chanderpaul, who is about to weasel his way into the 12K club.

Chanderpaul did his usual the other where he played for his test average and made no attempt to win the game for West Indies. He exposed the tail to Styen. Terrible attitude and will never be close to the best.

Chanderpaul is pretty close to being the leading run scorer for the west-indies..Shame really. Like above, he is selfish cricketer. Not scored many runs in recent times either. Should retire. But will continue until he over takes Lara. No matter how long that takes.

When Chanders accumulates another 179 runs, he will overtake Lara as the highest run scorer for WI. He will also be 6th on the list.

He needs only 40 runs to displace Mahela J at #7.

West Indies board need to do the right thing then and stop selecting him. He is not a team player.

Career batting averages:
Lara 52.9
Chanderpaul 52.3

Lara played 30 fewer matches and has more runs. So, why are the batting averages the same?
Key: Lara 6 not outs, Chanders 49 not outs

Yes.... But Sewag has more runs than Viv Richards.... Point being.... Chanderpaul can get 15'000 test runs, he will never be in the same bracket as Lara, Richards as far as the windies are concerned.