Who was Sri Lanka's greatest ever batsman?
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2018
- Sri Lanka's oldest living cricketer Chandra Schaffter expresses his view of who Sri Lanka's greatest batsman is and his thoughts may surprise you!
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He has luxury of having watched all three legends. So he can compare n comment. We watched arvinda n sangakara 1985-2015. For us these two are best. Respect from India.
I never seen Sathasiwam, But seen Aravinda de Silva, Sangakkara & Jayasuriya.
My favourite Cricketer is Sanath Jayasuriya.
But The greatest Batsman Sri Lanka ever produced was Aravinda de Silva. There is no doubt about it. Sangakkara was a class batsman too but the abilities that Aravinda had with his batting skills, such a gifted Batsman.
But other side if you talking about greatest Cricketer Sri Lanka ever produced, then you need to consider all round not only Batting.
I dont really think no one can ever come even Close to Sanath Jayasuriya with over 20k international runs, over 500 wickets and over 200 catches
Woow what a amazing childhood we had Great cricketers like Sanath, Aravinda, Arjuna, Vaas, Murali, Gurusinghe
Thank you 🙏
'Aravinda අපි හින්දා දුක්වින්දා'
එහෙම තමා ඒ දවස්වල කට්ටිය කිව්වෙ. හැමදාම ඕන වෙලාවෙදි කා එක්ක උනත් 100 හරි 50 හරි ගහල රට දිනවපු අග්රගණ්ය පන්දු පිතිකරු, පන්දු කරු, ඕල්වුන්ඩර් කෙනෙක් තමා Ara .... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Aravinda is the greatest batsman in the Srilankan cricket history.
As an Indian I rate Aravinda very highly..above Jayasurya and Sanga.
Arguably, Aravinda de silva is the best out of the bunch Srilanka have ever produced...Those fluent hooks and pulls of Aravinda is always a treat to watch..lot of modern day cricketers fail to play those shots successfully...Aravinda is definitely a goat
I've never seen Mahadevan Sathasivam in action, but have heard of him and read of him too quite a lot, surely he must have had been a great batsman who could have succeeded in any era under any condition/s. In addition to his heroics in the middle, he's pretty famous and at times infamous too for his deeds well off the field too .... I think he had died relatively young, in his 60s or so, in 1970s before I was even born ....
Sathasivam may stand out as the best batsman produced by Sri Lanka before they got their test status (in '81/82) by some distance, F.C. De Seram may come as the second / runner-up, who happens to be another quite interesting character pretty infamous for his contribution as a high-ranking police officer too over his involvement in the attempt to topple the subsequent government of Sri Lanka run by Sirimavo Bandaranaike ....
Out of the ones to follow them after Sri Lanka got their test status, Aravinda De Silva at his peak may standout as the most complete all-round batsman, who would have had an even more remarkable career had he fully understood his own abilities and worked on mastering them from his early 20s .... In terms of the sheer natural talent, none would challenge Sanath Jayasuriya though (With all due respect to him, I'm only interested in his abilities as a player in the middle, just leave aside some of his quite infamous exploits off the field !.... Still with all that, there's no denying that he used to be one of the greatest players of all-time.). The influence/impact these two had on the outcomes of the games they played in; both tests and ODIs, had been quite significant and they could win the games quite single-handedly on their own too when in full flow .... Coming to Kumar Sangakkara, he'll mostly go down in the history as a batsman who made the most of the comparatively limited abilities he had got. He's no match to De Silva, let alone to Jayasuriya, in terms of pure natural talent, he made the most of it by playing within his limitations waiting for more glamorous game-changing contributions to come from the other end, at times sacrificing the outcomes of the games he played in too a bit selfishly in favour of his personal statistics ....
Well thought out response. Sanga, himself, has admitted he was not talented as the rest, incl his mate Mahela. He is a testament to hard work. Conversely, Aravinda with all the talent in the world, could have reached even higher heights had he worked harder. Perhaps, a fusion of Ara and Sanga would be perfect. Sorry, I had never seen Sathasivam bat. Wish there were some old clips of him.
I'm a Pakistani. I'm not qualified to answer this question. My favorite Sri Lankan batsmen are Roy Dias and and Arvinda De Silva. I have seen them at their best.
I also like Sanath Jayasuryria a lot.
A.D,Silva.
I have seen him played vs S,Akhtar @ asian test championship final. No one able to played even normal shot vs S,Akhtar, but A,D,Silva? He just pull, hooked akhtar,like street bowler...
As a Sri Lankan Tamil I rate Aravinda at the best. He was my hero. But I never saw Sathisevam and he may well of been the goat.
Was Aravinda De Silva too a Tamil?
@@AsadAli-jc5tg no he was Sinhalese
@@sugs1191 Oohh No! And Kuldeep Mendis?
@@AsadAli-jc5tg Sinhalese too
Roy Diaz and Duleep Mendis. Exemplary beauty. Oohzing 🎉
Aravinda was the greatest batsman in the Sri Lankan cricket history...
Aravinda Silva The Legend
Aravinda Silva.Greatest .
If this conversation is more lengthy, this could be more interesting
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All i can say from the batsmen who i have seen Aravinda is in a different level! Cant comment on Sathasiwam as i never seen him bat..!
KS❤️
Arvind Desilva n then Sangakara
I never seen Sathasivam...But why would all those great players like Sobers and Frank Warrell were so astounded? I mean there is some talent...Unfortunately no video of him also. I remember one time on TV even Stanley Jayasinghe said Sathasivam was the greatest. its a mystery why he was talked so highly. But dont forget Anura Tennakoon. I remember he was the only batsman who was scoring one time
Anura Tennakoon and Roy Dias may have been pretty much in the same league as technically sound top-order batsmen with flair. Yes, the two had been among the best batsmen we had during their respective eras (Tennakoon had been a few years senior to Dias, and quite unfortunately missed out on playing tests for Sri Lanka as he retired only a couple of years or so before Sri Lanka got their Test status.). Still, in terms of overall batsmanship, I don't think that they can be compared with someone like Sathasivam who had definitely been a much more capable all-round batsman as per the records/testimonies by many ....
Of course Arvinda best batsman of the world
Aravinda De Silva
D'silva No-one ❤️
For me it certainly Desilva
De silva alltime best
Aravinda is the classiest and best batsman we cant get a better batsman like aravinda love from india
Arvinda de silva is the greatest batsman of sri Lanka among the others
Aravinda Desilva. No doubt at all
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Aravinda de Silva
The greatest Sri Lankan batsman was Roy Diaz. Those who followed Sri Lankan cricket when they gained entrance into Test cricket would know.
Desilva- no doubt...💯✌
Sad Roy Diaz didn’t play county. Barry Richards got to play there for posterity.
Sanga!❤
Arvinda infused the fighting spirit in Sri Lankan batsmen...just like Arjuna made Sri Lankan team a Unit.
Arvinda sir number ❤️❤️❤️❤️ one batsman ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
According to the history sathasiwam is the greatest batsman in sri lanka.I have never seen his batting skills.But according to many of the strongest batsmen in the world at that time, Sathasivam is the greatest batsman born on this earth. Even Garfield Sobers said that when Donald Bradman was playing.

සුදු පාටින් නැතිව කලු පාටින් දැම්මනම් පැහැදිලිව පේනවා 🙏❤️
Tamil player ❤ but our srilanka❤
What about Anura Ranasinha
No doubt.. ARAVINDA DE SILVA
Roy Dias
I consider Roy dias is the best player sri Lanka ever produced also Aravind de silva
Arjuna Ranatunga
Danna ekkenek kiyanna sri lanka team eke openin gahapu sahodarayo 2 kauda kiyala..
Sidath wettamuny, sunil wettamuny.
Aravinda de Silva and duminda de siva
taniya lee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@kal869 Sunil Wettimuny th gehewwa thamai test status lebenna kalin ODIs wala hema, eth ekata gehewwe Sidath Wettimuny saha Mithra Wettimuny (in a test against New Zealand in '83).
Ara n sana
Its Araaa no sana
Aravinda
Sanath Jayasuriya no doubt
Sanga
Arvinda disilva no.1 batsmen in the world cricket
my arse
Sangakara
Sangkarra
Sanga
Sanga
Aravinda.no1.batsman