Who bats the best with the tail?

Subash Jayaraman, in his blog, compares how various middle-order batsmen have fared when batting with tailenders. VVS Laxman, Jacques Kallis and Mahela Jayawardene feature high on the stats tables.

In the last 7 years (since Hussey's Test debut), Laxman outperforms quite easily other qualifying No. 5 and No.6 batsmen with an average partnership of almost 40 runs with a tail-end batsman. Surprisingly, (for Australia) it isn't Hussey that has performed well with the tail, but his Skipper Clarke. Chanderpaul though involved in most number of lower order partnerships also averages a lowly 18 runs in them, indicating quite fragile West Indian batting line up in the last few years. Another interesting take away from this table is that Yuvraj Singh and Sourav Ganguly who occupied the No. 6 slot at various times come up poorly with average tail-end partnership of 13.45 and 17.84 runs, respectively. This might indicate that Laxman had figured out ways to establishing lower order partnerships and coax runs out of the tailenders.