Kumar Sangakkara Stats: Highest average at home, fifth overall

# Kumar Sangakkara has managed 12,400 runs (ave.57.40) in his glittering Test career of 134 Tests, including 38 centuries and 52 fifties.

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# Sangakkara has finished his Test career with fifth highest aggregate in Test annals. Only four batsmen have managed more runs than him — Sachin Tendulkar (15921), Ricky Ponting (13378), Jacques Kallis (13289) and Rahul Dravid (13288).

# Among the batsmen with 6,000 runs or more in Tests, his average is the fifth highest — the top four being Australia’s Don Bradman (99.94), England’s Ken Barrington (58.67) and Wally Hammiond (58.45) and Gary Sobers (57.78).

# His tally of 6830 (ave.60.44) in 75 Tests is the second highest by any batsman in Sri Lanka. Mahela Jayawardene had managed 7167 (ave.59.72) in 81 Tests.

# Among the seven batsmen with 6,000 runs or more at home, Sangakkara is the only one to have maintained an average of 60-plus.

# Kumar Sangakkara has faced Ravichandran Ashwin in just four innings in the present Test series, getting out to him in all four innings.