Top 5 best grounds for batting in Test history

Cricket over the years has evolved into a batsman’s game even in Test matches. No longer do we see threatening, intimidating spells very often in the longer formats. While the critics mull over the lack of assistance from the pitches of late, history suggests that there have always been venues that traditionally favored batters. Here is a list of 5 of them: Note 1: The list is generated based on the batting average per dismissal in an innings.Note 2: Only the venues that hosted a minimum of 20 matches are taken into consideration.

#5 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

An average of 35.46 runs per wicket in 38 Test matches. Mahela Jaywardene, with 2921 runs from 42 innings at a remarkable average of 74.89, is the most successful batsman on this deck, while Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 2312 at 74.58 per dismissal comes as the second best. 

Their world record partnership of 624 runs –  for any wicket –  in Tests came at this venue in 2006 against South Africa.