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*Official* Afghanistan in Bangladesh 2019

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Bangladesh just missed a trick but not preparing green tracks. Their batsmen can handle movement much better than Afghans. Wait for the SL vs AFG tests, and you will see a green seaming track in PSS and a hard, bouncy pitch with tinge of green in Pallekele being prepared.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
Bangladesh just missed a trick but not preparing green tracks. Their batsmen can handle movement much better than Afghans. Wait for the SL vs AFG tests, and you will see a green seaming track in PSS and a hard, bouncy pitch with tinge of green in Pallekele being prepared.
Probably. I laugh at that coming from you of all people considering the pitches Sri Lanka used to prepare for Murali.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
And suddenely they become featherbeds when we are discussing Sangakkara. O ye, I see.
Sangakkara is one of the best batsman ever. I'm not biased about anything here. Probably the most underrated batsman in the history of test cricket along with Kallis.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
How do you feel Sangakkara would have played against Murali in a test match in Sri Lanka? Part of me is thinking that Sangakkara would have dominated him with the bat regardless of Murali dominating touring sides with the ball. And that's even with Sangakkara being a left handed player. What do you think?
 

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
How do you feel Sangakkara would have played against Murali in a test match in Sri Lanka? Part of me is thinking that Sangakkara would have dominated him with the bat regardless of Murali dominating touring sides with the ball. And that's even with Sangakkara being a left handed player. What do you think?
Sangakkara struggled against off spinners not named Ajmal.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
Sangakkara struggled against off spinners not named Ajmal.
Are you sure? I say that as despite the stats vs Ajmal being very dominant Sangakkara still averaged 66.59 against spin overall (since jan 2002 most of career) and "only" 55.77 against pace. And that's overall, outside the subcontinent he "only" averaged 53.1 vs spin and 44.4 vs pace. He was a monster vs spin, even more so in the sub continent. These are since jan 2002 I couldn't find since the very start of career.

This is as a specialist batsman on the ladder

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...0;qualval1=runs;template=results;type=batting
 
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Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
Are you sure? I say that as despite the stats vs Ajmal being very dominant Sangakkara still averaged 66.59 against spin overall (since jan 2002 most of career) and "only" 55.77 against pace. And that's overall, outside the subcontinent he "only" averaged 53.1 vs spin and 44.4 vs pace. He was a monster vs spin, even more so in the sub continent. These are since jan 2002 I couldn't find since the very start of career.

This is as a specialist batsman on the ladder

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
Sangakkara did not face many quality off spinners. Only Ajmal, Swann and Ashwin were of class. He struggled against Swann and Ashwin. He was a monster against wrist spin and left arm spin.

EDIT: If you want to add Harbhajan as a top quality off spinner, Sangakkara had a mixed bag against him.
 
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Jack1

International Debutant
Still, I guess he made mincemeat of the average spinner, hard to argue with the overall numbers at least. I noticed the discrepancy against Ashwin, I was slightly surprised by that.
 

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Ashwin caught him in his retirement series. Comprehensively dominated Ajmal before that.
 

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