All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards (Know Why). Most of our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier batsmen may change if current batsmen set new benchmarks. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation). Here are the Top 10 Sri Lankan middle order (3-6) batsmen in Test Cricket since 1950.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2025-09-10

CONTENTS

3. PRIMARY CRITERIA

3.1. PROLIFIC

3.2. CONSISTENT

3.2.1. Against All Teams

3.2.2. Against Top Teams

3.3. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

3.4. ATTACKING

3.5. PRIMARY RATING

4. CONDITIONS CRITERIA

4.1. HOME/AWAY

4.1.1. At Home

4.1.2. Away From Home

4.2. FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

4.2.1. Familiar Conditions Rating

4.2.1.1. Asians In Asia

4.2.2. Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

4.2.2.1. Asians Outside Asia

4.3. CONDITIONS RATING

5. SECONDARY CRITERIA

5.1. TOP FORM AT HOME

5.2. TOP FORM AWAY

5.3. IMPACT INNS

5.4. SECONDARY RATING

6. OVERALL RATING

7. TOP TEAMS

7.1. Top Teams In Asia

7.2. Top Teams Outside Asia

Nations Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to show players only from Sri Lanka.

The Rating of the players from Sri Lanka remains the same as in the original OVERALL Rating.
Thus the Trend Setter can be from any nation and is not necessarily from Sri Lanka.

Position Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to include performances of middle order (3-6) batsmen. Innings played only at the specified position are counted in this rating.

THE CRITERIA

CRITERIA	CONSTITUENTS
Primary	Runs, Average, Top Inns, Strike Rate
Conditions	Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia
Secondary	Top Form (Home & Away), Min Impact Inns

The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player which does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Know All About TS. Here is an example:-

TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
TS Points: 250.00(Max); Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00
Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.

Top Teams (TT)

Some sections consider performances only against the top teams. Here is some information about the Top Teams:-

Win/Loss Ratio is used to determine top teams.
The top teams are calculated by decades.
Further, they are divided into In Asia and Outside Asia.
A batsman's performace is counted in TT if it comes in the specific condition and in the specific decade.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings (TT)	50
Min Career Runs	1000

PRIMARY CRITERIA

The Primary Rating is divided into 4 main sections:-

CRITERIA	STAT	POINTS
Prolific	Runs Scored	200.00
Consistent	Average	500.00
Big Innings Potential	Top Inns (Runs)	150.00
Attacking	Strike Rate	150.00

PROLIFIC

The Eras

The time period from 1950 to present is divided into eras for this section. This is because less cricket was played earlier. To make it fair for earlier players they are compared with players of the same period with a slight reduction in points. Know More About Eras.

Era 1	MP before 1991
Era 2	MP between 1990 And 2016
Era 3	MP greater than 2015

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored

RANK	ERA 1	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	AR Border	AUS	1978	1994	1986	257	10964	170.00

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	SR Tendulkar	IND	1989	2013	2001	324	15789	200.00
1	KC Sangakkara	SL	2000	2015	2007.5	223	12138	153.75
2	DPMD Jayawardena	SL	1997	2014	2005.5	250	11781	149.23
3	PA de Silva	SL	1984	2002	1993	144	6025	76.32
4	TT Samaraweera	SL	2002	2013	2007.5	118	4821	61.07
5	A Ranatunga	SL	1982	2000	1991	141	4774	60.47
6	HP Tillakaratne	SL	1989	2004	1996.5	109	3823	48.43
7	TM Dilshan	SL	1999	2012	2005.5	78	2955	37.43

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	JE Root	ENG	2012	2026	2019	286	13526	190.00
1	AD Mathews	SL	2009	2025	2017	199	7685	107.95
2	LD Chandimal	SL	2012	2025	2018.5	139	5519	77.53
3	DM de Silva	SL	2016	2025	2020.5	94	3325	46.71

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly, it takes into account:-

Strength of Opposition.
Positions at which a batsman has played.
Venues at which he has played.
Time Period in which he has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	2000

Against All Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	GS Sobers	135	16	7048	59.23	61.04	250.00
1	KC Sangakkara	223	15	12138	58.36	55.05	225.47
2	DPMD Jayawardena	250	15	11781	50.13	47.69	195.34
3	PA de Silva	144	10	6025	44.96	45.73	187.30
4	AD Mathews	199	26	7685	44.42	45.33	185.65
5	LD Chandimal	139	13	5519	43.80	44.84	183.67
6	TT Samaraweera	118	15	4821	46.81	44.57	182.57
7	HP Tillakaratne	109	17	3823	41.55	43.27	177.23
8	TM Dilshan	78	8	2955	42.21	41.40	169.57
9	DM de Silva	94	7	3325	38.22	39.76	162.86
10	A Ranatunga	141	9	4774	36.17	38.10	156.06

Against Top Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	GS Sobers	119	14	6492	61.83	64.21	250.00
1	KC Sangakkara	169	11	8567	54.22	53.28	207.47
2	DPMD Jayawardena	190	8	8633	47.43	46.74	181.98
3	PA de Silva	106	7	4395	44.39	46.50	181.07
4	AD Mathews	155	17	5855	42.43	45.08	175.55
5	TT Samaraweera	88	12	3288	43.26	42.86	166.88
6	LD Chandimal	97	4	3664	39.40	42.83	166.78
7	A Ranatunga	103	8	3445	36.26	39.28	152.96
8	HP Tillakaratne	66	7	1961	33.24	36.93	143.79
9	DM de Silva	53	3	1614	32.28	36.14	140.72
10	TM Dilshan	55	5	1743	34.86	35.88	139.72

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

Ave HS

In this criteria, we have taken the top 7 scores of the batsman in the specific condition. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 7 innings divided by 7.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 7 Inns

RANK	BATSMAN	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE HS	RAT
TS	BC Lara	400*	375	277	226	221	216	213	275.43	150.00
1	DPMD Jayawardena	374	275	242	240	237	213*	203*	254.86	138.80
2	KC Sangakkara	319	287	270	232	230	222*	221	254.43	138.56
3	PA de Silva	267	206	168	167	152	148	146	179.14	97.56
4	TT Samaraweera	231	214	159	143	142	138	137*	166.29	90.56
5	AD Mathews	200*	199	160	157*	145*	141	122	160.57	87.45
6	LD Chandimal	206*	164	162*	155*	151	138	132	158.29	86.20
7	TM Dilshan	168	163*	162	145	143	125*	104	144.29	78.58
8	DM de Silva	173	166	155*	127	122	119*	109	138.71	75.54
9	HP Tillakaratne	204*	144	126*	119	116	115	108	133.14	72.51
10	A Ranatunga	135*	131	127	111	90	90	88	110.29	60.06

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR. Batsman who were active in earlier times benefit from this as SR was generally low earlier.

R4BF

Balls played by batsmen for many inns is not available for earlier times. When such is the case, we have used Runs For Balls Faced (R4BF) to determine the Strike Rate. This is the runs scored by the batsman for the available data of balls.

Criteria: Points For R SR

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	2000
Min Average	25

RANK	BATSMAN	R4BF	BF	SR	R SR	RAT
TS	IVA Richards	6609	9580	68.99	75.59	150.00
1	TM Dilshan	2955	4655	63.48	62.26	123.54
2	A Ranatunga	4201	8165	51.45	55.93	110.98
3	PA de Silva	5673	11098	51.12	54.25	107.65
4	DM de Silva	3325	5795	57.38	53.87	106.90
5	KC Sangakkara	12138	22299	54.43	53.18	105.52
6	DPMD Jayawardena	11781	22911	51.42	50.50	100.21
7	LD Chandimal	5519	11153	49.48	46.67	92.60
8	AD Mathews	7685	15922	48.27	46.09	91.45
9	TT Samaraweera	4821	10206	47.24	45.98	91.24
10	HP Tillakaratne	3823	9509	40.20	42.67	84.67

PRIMARY RATING

The total of the above four criteria comes out to be 1,000.00 points. The Primary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 40 percent.

RANK	BATSMAN	PRO	CON	BIP	ATT	RAT	PRI PTS
1	KC Sangakkara	153.75	432.93	138.56	105.52	830.77	332.31
2	DPMD Jayawardena	149.23	377.32	138.80	100.21	765.56	306.23
3	PA de Silva	76.32	368.37	97.56	107.65	649.90	259.96
4	AD Mathews	107.95	361.20	87.45	91.45	648.05	259.22
5	LD Chandimal	77.53	350.46	86.20	92.60	606.79	242.71
6	TT Samaraweera	61.07	349.45	90.56	91.24	592.32	236.93
7	TM Dilshan	37.43	309.29	78.58	123.54	548.84	219.54
8	A Ranatunga	60.47	309.02	60.06	110.98	540.53	216.21
9	DM de Silva	46.71	303.58	75.54	106.90	532.73	213.09
10	HP Tillakaratne	48.43	321.02	72.51	84.67	526.62	210.65

CONDITIONS CRITERIA

The Conditions

The Conditions Ratings are calculated by applying the four criteria of the Primary Rating to diffirent conditions. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The four conditions criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Home	30.00
Away	120.00
Familiar Conditions	30.00
Unfamiliar Conditions	120.00

HOME/AWAY

HM/AW RATING

Points to note:-

U.A.E. is considered as a second Home for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All Home and Away stats of Pakistani and Afghani batsmen are calculated accordingly.

At Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	DPMD Jayawardena	127	7134	60.46	52.39	849.90	25.50
2	KC Sangakkara	118	6714	62.17	55.86	835.55	25.07
3	PA de Silva	67	3197	54.19	53.07	675.89	20.28
4	LD Chandimal	62	2813	52.09	52.43	609.16	18.27
5	AD Mathews	103	3927	45.14	49.07	595.65	17.87
6	TM Dilshan	35	1563	52.10	68.52	595.61	17.87
7	A Ranatunga	69	2648	41.38	57.16	574.10	17.22
8	TT Samaraweera	57	2490	49.80	46.59	564.55	16.94
9	HP Tillakaratne	54	2232	51.91	41.55	538.13	16.14
10	DM de Silva	44	1435	35.88	57.72	456.99	13.71

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	105	5424	54.24	52.76	722.01	86.64
2	AD Mathews	96	3758	43.70	47.46	599.00	71.88
3	DPMD Jayawardena	123	4647	39.72	49.99	574.55	68.95
4	PA de Silva	77	2828	37.71	49.05	533.24	63.99
5	TT Samaraweera	61	2331	43.98	47.95	520.67	62.48
6	DM de Silva	50	1890	40.21	57.12	518.30	62.20
7	LD Chandimal	77	2706	37.58	46.75	511.86	61.42
8	HP Tillakaratne	55	1591	32.47	38.46	431.85	51.82
9	A Ranatunga	72	2126	31.26	45.62	426.68	51.20
10	TM Dilshan	43	1392	34.80	58.64	419.77	50.37

FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

FC/UC RATING

Points to note:-

Unfamiliar Conditions (UC) is Outside Asia for Asians and In Asia for Non Asians.
Familiar Conditions (FC) are the opposite.

Familiar Conditions Rating

Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	158	9209	63.08	55.36	954.99	28.65
2	DPMD Jayawardena	177	9366	56.76	52.52	920.26	27.61
3	AD Mathews	141	5514	45.95	48.39	746.97	22.41
4	LD Chandimal	91	4033	49.79	50.90	734.28	22.03
5	PA de Silva	96	4133	47.51	50.17	716.55	21.50
6	TT Samaraweera	80	3634	51.91	47.96	689.51	20.69
7	TM Dilshan	55	2336	47.67	69.26	651.59	19.55
8	DM de Silva	62	2300	41.07	59.02	607.13	18.21
9	A Ranatunga	105	3454	35.24	54.15	594.77	17.84
10	HP Tillakaratne	70	2689	46.36	41.82	592.64	17.78

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	65	2929	47.24	51.72	764.53	91.74
2	AD Mathews	58	2171	40.96	47.95	669.06	80.29
3	PA de Silva	48	1892	40.26	53.13	654.70	78.56
4	DPMD Jayawardena	73	2415	34.50	47.56	570.45	68.45
5	A Ranatunga	36	1320	38.82	46.40	533.09	63.97
6	LD Chandimal	48	1486	33.02	46.01	530.06	63.61
7	DM de Silva	32	1025	33.06	54.00	512.27	61.47
8	TT Samaraweera	38	1187	35.97	45.15	508.61	61.03
9	HP Tillakaratne	39	1134	33.35	36.83	489.97	58.80
10	TM Dilshan	23	619	29.48	48.28	417.42	50.09

CONDITIONS RATING

The Conditions Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BATSMAN	AWAY	HOME	UC	FC	CON PTS
1	KC Sangakkara	86.64	25.07	91.74	28.65	232.10
2	AD Mathews	71.88	17.87	80.29	22.41	192.45
3	DPMD Jayawardena	68.95	25.50	68.45	27.61	190.51
4	PA de Silva	63.99	20.28	78.56	21.50	184.33
5	LD Chandimal	61.42	18.27	63.61	22.03	165.33
6	TT Samaraweera	62.48	16.94	61.03	20.69	161.14
7	DM de Silva	62.20	13.71	61.47	18.21	155.59
8	A Ranatunga	51.20	17.22	63.97	17.84	150.24
9	HP Tillakaratne	51.82	16.14	58.80	17.78	144.54
10	TM Dilshan	50.37	17.87	50.09	19.55	137.88

SECONDARY CRITERIA

The Secondary Rating consists of three parts. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The three secondary criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Top Form Home	30.00
Top Form Away	120.00
Impact Innings	150.00

TF RATING

Points to note about Top Form Rating:-

Top Form (TF) is calculated by taking the best 30 consecutive innings of a batsman.
There are two TF Ratings used in our OVERALL Rating: Home and Away.

TOP FORM AT HOME

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	30	2460	94.62	59.84	924.38	27.73
2	DPMD Jayawardena	30	2423	89.74	56.45	899.58	26.99
3	PA de Silva	30	1944	77.76	53.35	756.83	22.70
4	TT Samaraweera	30	1608	67.00	51.87	648.60	19.46
5	HP Tillakaratne	30	1378	59.91	44.39	597.41	17.92
6	LD Chandimal	30	1463	58.52	54.55	593.48	17.80
7	AD Mathews	30	1343	67.15	48.59	589.71	17.69
8	TM Dilshan	30	1359	54.36	69.34	589.26	17.68
9	A Ranatunga	30	1395	49.82	60.27	581.66	17.45
10	DM de Silva	30	1201	44.48	59.66	521.70	15.65

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	30	1974	70.50	50.65	805.87	96.70
2	TT Samaraweera	30	1662	69.25	54.10	740.41	88.85
3	AD Mathews	30	1514	60.56	43.93	696.93	83.63
4	DPMD Jayawardena	30	1571	54.17	53.65	695.67	83.48
5	PA de Silva	30	1242	41.40	54.50	592.18	71.06
6	LD Chandimal	30	1306	46.64	47.32	580.38	69.65
7	DM de Silva	30	1219	43.54	57.26	548.37	65.80
8	HP Tillakaratne	30	1142	42.30	40.95	525.82	63.10
9	TM Dilshan	30	1078	37.17	68.06	524.95	62.99
10	A Ranatunga	30	988	35.29	49.42	461.02	55.32

IMPACT INNS

II Rating

Impact Innings (II) are those innings which have a minimum impact in terms of runs or Strike Rate. Know All About II. Points to note about II:-

1st & 2nd and 3rd & 4th innings are clubbed together.
A Batsman should score at least 30 runs to qualify.
An Inn is included in II if it is 16.67% of the total runs of the higher total or
The runs are more than 10.00% of the total runs and
The SR is high or in a successful chase while being Not Out.

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 50

RANK	BATSMAN	DIS	II	II/Dis%	RAT	WTG
1	KC Sangakkara	208	73	35.10	680.41	102.06
2	PA de Silva	134	46	34.33	632.32	94.85
3	DPMD Jayawardena	235	73	31.06	603.91	90.59
4	AD Mathews	173	51	29.48	578.68	86.80
5	TT Samaraweera	103	33	32.04	545.24	81.79
6	A Ranatunga	132	38	28.79	521.07	78.16
7	TM Dilshan	70	22	31.43	503.75	75.56
8	HP Tillakaratne	92	27	29.35	488.05	73.21
9	LD Chandimal	126	33	26.19	475.91	71.39
10	DM de Silva	87	23	26.44	469.78	70.47

SECONDARY RATING

Secondary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the three criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BATSMAN	TF HM	TF AW	II	SEC RAT
1	KC Sangakkara	27.73	96.70	102.06	226.50
2	DPMD Jayawardena	26.99	83.48	90.59	201.05
3	TT Samaraweera	19.46	88.85	81.79	190.09
4	PA de Silva	22.70	71.06	94.85	188.61
5	AD Mathews	17.69	83.63	86.80	188.12
6	LD Chandimal	17.80	69.65	71.39	158.84
7	TM Dilshan	17.68	62.99	75.56	156.23
8	HP Tillakaratne	17.92	63.10	73.21	154.23
9	DM de Silva	15.65	65.80	70.47	151.92
10	A Ranatunga	17.45	55.32	78.16	150.93

OVERALL RATING

The OVERALL Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000 Pts.

RANK	OV RANK	BATSMAN	NAT	PRI RAT	CON RAT	SEC RAT	FIN RAT
1	6	KC Sangakkara	SL	332.31	232.10	226.50	790.91
2	22	DPMD Jayawardena	SL	306.23	190.51	201.05	697.78
3	34	AD Mathews	SL	259.22	192.45	188.12	639.79
4	36	PA de Silva	SL	259.96	184.33	188.61	632.90
5	58	TT Samaraweera	SL	236.93	161.14	190.09	588.16
6	63	LD Chandimal	SL	242.71	165.33	158.84	566.88
7	85	DM de Silva	SL	213.09	155.59	151.92	520.60
8	88	A Ranatunga	SL	216.21	150.24	150.93	517.38
9	92	TM Dilshan	SL	219.54	137.88	156.23	513.65
10	96	HP Tillakaratne	SL	210.65	144.54	154.23	509.42

TOP TEAMS

Top Teams In Asia

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5	6
1950s	AUS	WI	PAK	IND	ENG
1960s	WI	AUS	PAK	IND	ENG	SA
1970s	PAK	ENG	IND	WI	SA	AUS
1980s	PAK	WI	ENG	NZ	AUS
1990s	IND	PAK	SA	AUS	WI
2000s	AUS	IND	SL	PAK	SA	ENG
2010s	IND	PAK	SL	ENG	SA	AUS
2020s	IND	AUS	PAK	NZ	SA	ENG