Kumar Sangakkara: Sri Lanka batsman passes 12,000 Test runs

TD, I suggest you take another look at the man's stats:
stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/...esults;type=allround

HERE IS A TEAM PICKED FROM PLAYERS WHO DEBUTED BETWEEN 1988 to present

1. Smith(SA)---most runs as opener since 1988
2. Hayden(Aus)---2nd most runs by opener since 1988
3. Sangakkara(SL)---most runs at #3---ahead of Ponting and Dravid
4. Tendulkar(Ind)---most runs at #4---ahead of Lara and Kallis
5. Chanderpaul(WI)---most runs at #5
6. Kallis(SA)---he was a specialist #4---but he gets selected as an allrounder an plays at #6
7. Gilchrist(Aus)(wkp)----most runs at #7

BOWLERS:
8. Warne(Aus)
9. McGrath(Aus)
10. Steyn(SA)
11. Ambrose(WI)

good team REV! 

No argument here!

but you know what they say...your best bat should be batting at number 3!!  ;D

He is!

You posted a link to his combined home/away/neutral games. He averages in the 30s in 3 countries, and before his last tour of England, in the 30s there too.

they all batted at different positions!  ::LOL::