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Top 10 Sri Lankan Batsmen Vs South Africa In Tests

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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 batsmen from Sri Lanka against South Africa in Test cricket.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2025-02-15

CONTENTS
1. THE CRITERIA
2. QUALIFICATION
3. PROLIFIC
4. CONSISTENT
5. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL
6. ATTACKING
7. TEAM VEN OPP RATING
TVO RATING

This rating considers performances of players from specific teams in particular nations or against particular oppositions.

Team (T) SL
Venue (V) ALL
Oposition (O) SA

THE CRITERIA

The TVO Rating is divided into 4 main sections:-

CRITERIA STAT POINTS
Prolific Runs Scored 300.00
Consistent Average 300.00
Big Innings Potential Top Scores 250.00
Attacking Strike Rate 150.00
The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player who 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 a simple 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.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings 10

PROLIFIC

CRITERIA: Points For Runs Scored

RANK BATSMAN NAT INNS RUNS RAT
TS DPMD Jayawardena SL 32 1782 300.00
1 DPMD Jayawardena SL 32 1782 300.00
2 KC Sangakkara SL 32 1534 258.25
3 ST Jayasuriya SL 27 857 144.28
4 AD Mathews SL 24 779 131.14
5 FDM Karunaratne SL 22 730 122.90
6 A Ranatunga SL 14 583 98.15
7 DM de Silva SL 18 504 84.85
8 PA de Silva SL 13 461 77.61
9 HP Tillakaratne SL 13 431 72.56
10 TT Samaraweera SL 10 413 69.53

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 500

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS 100s AVE R AVE RAT
TS DPMD Jayawardena 32 1 1782 6 57.48 61.12 300.00
1 DPMD Jayawardena 32 1 1782 6 57.48 61.12 300.00
2 TT Samaraweera 10 2 413 2 51.63 56.88 279.20
3 KC Sangakkara 32 0 1534 3 47.94 50.97 250.18
4 A Ranatunga 14 1 583 1 44.85 48.36 237.39
5 HP Tillakaratne 13 2 431 1 39.18 43.23 212.17
6 FDM Karunaratne 22 1 730 2 34.76 40.10 196.84
7 AD Mathews 24 2 779 0 35.41 39.37 193.24
8 PA de Silva 13 0 461 0 35.46 38.45 188.72
9 DM de Silva 18 1 504 0 29.65 33.85 166.14
10 ST Jayasuriya 27 0 857 1 31.74 33.68 165.29

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

Ave HS

In this criteria, the top 5 scores of the batsman have been taken. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 5 innings divided by 5.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 5 Inns

RANK BATSMAN 1 2 3 4 5 AVE HS RAT
TS DPMD Jayawardena 374 237 167 165 123 213.20 250.00
1 DPMD Jayawardena 374 237 167 165 123 213.20 250.00
2 KC Sangakkara 287 232 108 98 89 162.80 190.90
3 FDM Karunaratne 158* 103 85 60 53 91.80 107.65
4 ST Jayasuriya 148 85 74 73 65 89.00 104.36
5 A Ranatunga 131 88 73 54 50 79.20 92.87
6 AD Mathews 89 71 63* 63 63 69.80 81.85
7 TT Samaraweera 115* 102 43 36 32 65.60 76.92
8 HP Tillakaratne 104* 92 55 37 33* 64.20 75.28
9 PA de Silva 82 77 68 41 41 61.80 72.47
10 DM de Silva 79* 60 59 50 48 59.20 69.42

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 500
Min Average 25
RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS ST Jayasuriya 857 1269 67.53 68.05 150.00
1 ST Jayasuriya 857 1269 67.53 68.05 150.00
2 A Ranatunga 583 965 60.41 63.69 140.40
3 DM de Silva 504 831 60.65 58.23 128.36
4 KC Sangakkara 1534 2714 56.52 55.21 121.70
5 FDM Karunaratne 730 1288 56.68 54.07 119.18
6 DPMD Jayawardena 1782 3377 52.77 51.54 113.62
7 PA de Silva 461 953 48.37 50.85 112.10
8 AD Mathews 779 1552 50.19 48.31 106.50
9 TT Samaraweera 413 931 44.36 43.47 95.82
10 HP Tillakaratne 431 1178 36.59 38.31 84.44

TEAM VEN OPP RATING

The TEAM VEN OPP (TVO) Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000.

RANK BATSMAN PRO CON BIP ATT TVO RAT
1 DPMD Jayawardena 300.00 300.00 250.00 113.62 963.62
2 KC Sangakkara 258.25 250.18 190.90 121.70 821.03
3 A Ranatunga 98.15 237.39 92.87 140.40 568.80
4 ST Jayasuriya 144.28 165.29 104.36 150.00 563.93
5 FDM Karunaratne 122.90 196.84 107.65 119.18 546.56
6 TT Samaraweera 69.53 279.20 76.92 95.82 521.47
7 AD Mathews 131.14 193.24 81.85 106.50 512.74
8 PA de Silva 77.61 188.72 72.47 112.10 450.89
9 DM de Silva 84.85 166.14 69.42 128.36 448.76
10 HP Tillakaratne 72.56 212.17 75.28 84.44 444.45

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