Sangakara quote :
Gavaskar was a fantastic batsman, and I'm very privileged to have had a career where I am able to go past him. Still I am three centuries behind him, but hopefully I can go beyond him on that count too. I'd still like more runs and more wins. I think that's what motivates all the guys who play."
Yes sir, Sunny Gavaskar was a tremendous batsman in all conditions. Against pace, against spin. In home conditions, away conditions. Excelling against the topmost team of his era -- West Indies without a helmet and scoring 13 hundreds against them. No cheap runs, no cheap hundreds. Grinding hundreds, match saving hundreds.
Sangakara, on the other hand has a lot of cheap runs, cheap hundreds against BD, Zimbabwe. When SL dont find a test opposition, they either invite BD to maul or visit poor Zimbabwe, who are happy to host any team for their lack of cricket and opportunities to budding cricketers.
He has set a target of "35 to 40 hundreds" to the younger SL batsmen like Thirimanne, Mathews and Chandimal. Hopefully they are not cheap hundreds, if those guys get there when they finish. Unfortunately the SLC has postponed all home Test series till 2015 in the greed for more money. They do not play more Test cricket after this test series until October and again after that not much tests again (except for a series against Pak).
A lot has been said on this blog about this 2 SL batsmen (him and Mahela) on how they blabber and make cheap runs. Only if this folks could have had an appetite for positive cricket, the SLC would not have been deemed as a Test cricket killer board.
