Top 10 batsmen with more than 5000 runs scored In Test matches won

Kumar Sangakkara – 5449 runs

Kumar Sangakkara was the one Sri Lanka looked up to

Sangakkara, like Tendulkar, was part of a mediocre side for a long time, which is why the number of runs he scored in winning Tests is fewer than what it could and should have been. The man, who boasts of a Bradmanesque average of 57.4 when taking only contemporary cricket into consideration has scored 5449 of his 12400 runs in victorious Tests.

These runs came in just 84 innings and 54 Tests at a phenomenal average of 71.69. No one with more than 5000 runs in winning Tests has a better average than that of Sangakkara. 19 of Sangakkara’s 38 centuries have come in Test wins. 4020 of those runs have come in the first and second innings of Test matches with 15 centuries.