2014 this day Mahela Jayawardene retired from test cricket. Jayawardene, who made his debut for his country in 1997, has scored 11,814 Test runs, at an average of 49.84 with 34 centuries. His highest score came in Colombo in July 2006, when he made 374 against South Africa, the highest test score by a right-handed batsman, and overall the fourth-best score in the test cricket history. He was also chosen as Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2007. He played his final Test at his favorite ground, The Sinhalese Sports Club, where he scored 54 runs in his last test innings.

Is Mahela, Sangakkara, or for instance Misbah superlative record scalable to SEWAN.

Performance of Asian* batsman across conditions

*Bangladesh and Afghanistan excluded

SEWAN: refers to these five hosts Australia, New Zealand, England, West Indies, and South Africa.

Some other notations which we will use;

Mahela has scored 11814 test runs out of which he scored just 18.30 percent of them in SEWAN country. This is the worst by any batsman who has scored at least 5000 runs. If we fix 25 percent as a cutoff all top-ranking batsmen in reverse order are Sri Lankans. Sangakkara also has a dismal record, as the southpaw only managed 22.29 percent.

This will be too early to draw any conclusion as Lanka plays relatively fewer matches in SEWAN as compared to other Asian countries.

Who are some of the best performing batsman in above list?

Pakistan Zaheer Abbas and Virat Kohli top the list with 45.54% and 45.22%.Below is the table of all players who have at least thirty-five percent of runs in SEWAN.

Lets take percentage of SEWAN inns in to context.

Arvinda De Silva and Saleem Malik are table toppers with ratio 1.05 followed by Gavaskar and Ganguly.

How frequently have they scored century ?

Sanath Jayasuriya needs fourteen and half more inns to score a century in SEWAN as compared to his career frequency.

Some of the best century makers are

This list is somewhat not taking into account those players who score a century at will or say in a lesser number of inns. Now we are considering only those batsmen who scored a century in less than seven inns. Gavaskar has splendid records both in terms of hundreds and runs ratio. Kumar Sangakkara and Younis have inflated numbers placing them in the bottom position.

How average are they ?

• Worst performer

• Top performer

Only four players have Avg_diff positive

Grand list

Criteria

1. Min career avg: 40
2. Max inns to score hundred: 10

Arvinda De Silva hands down turns out to be the best Sri Lankan, batsman. The three Indian batting giants Gavaskar, Dravid, and Tendulkar tops the table.