Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara partnership stats

Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara are each 36 years old. They are Sri Lanka's two highest ranked batsmen. They could well go on to play for another couple of years.

Might be that they will end up being the pair with the greatest number of runs as a partnership. Currently the top four reads:

Dravid Tendulkar 6920 (mostly third, fourth)
Greenidge,Haynes 6482 (openers)
Hayden Langer 6081 (openers)
Sangakkara Jayawardene 5960 (mostly third, fourth)

There's no currently active pair that have over 4000 runs together other than Mahela and Kumar.

1097 in 31 innings @ 36.56 away from asia
5960 in 110 innings @ 56.22 in asia

as opposed to srt-dravid

2996 in 59 innings @ 52.56 away from asia
3924 in 84 innings @ 49.05 in asia

And they're pretty to watch when they are going, too.

Other active pairs:
Amla/Smith 3652
Cook/Trott (maybe) 2557
De Villiers/Smith 2213
Petersen/Smith 2077

So the only other indisputably active ones above 2000 involve Graeme Smith. There's not many experienced, stable batting line-ups out there now, with so many of the great and good having recently retired or been dropped. A bit like bowling a decade or so ago.

expect ekohli and pujara will get up there in time...maybe williamson and taylor...cannot see any pom or oz partnerships getting within a bull's roar