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Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara
කුමාර් සංගක්කාර
குமார் சங்கக்கார
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Sangakkara in his final ODI in Sri Lanka
Personal information
Full name Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara
Born (1977-10-27) 27 October 1977 (age 39)
Matale, Sri Lanka
Nickname Sanga
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting Left handed
Bowling Right arm off break
Role Wicket-keeper, Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 84) 20 July 2000 v South Africa
Last Test 20 August 2015 v India
ODI debut (cap 105) 5 July 2000 v Pakistan
Last ODI 18 March 2015 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 11
T20I debut (cap 10) 15 June 2006 v England
Last T20I 6 April 2014 v India
Domestic team information
Years Team
1997–2014 Nondescripts
2007–2014 Kandurata
2007 Warwickshire
2008–2010 Kings XI Punjab
2011–2012 Deccan Chargers
2013 Sunrisers Hyderabad
2013–present Jamaica Tallawahs
2014 Durham
2014 Udarata Rulers
2015–2017 Surrey
2015–present Dhaka Dynamites
2015–present Hobart Hurricanes
2016 Quetta Gladiators
2017 Karachi Kings
2018–present Multan Sultans
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 134 404 260 528
Runs scored 12,400 14,234 20,911 19,453
Batting average 57.40 41.98 52.40 43.61
100s/50s 38/52 25/93 64/86 39/120
Top score 319 169 319 169
Balls bowled 84 246
Wickets 0 1
Bowling average 150.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/13
Catches/stumpings 182/20 402/99 371/33 518/124
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 28 September 2017

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara (Sinhalese: කුමාර සංගක්කාර; born 27 October 1977) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain, and is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential cricketers of all-time. Sangakkara has forged many formidable partnerships with long time team mate and friend, Mahela Jayawardene and holds numerous batting records in the modern era across all formats of the game. Sangakkara scored 28,016 runs in international cricket across all formats in a career that spanned 15 years.

A left-handed top-order batsman, he is also a record-breaking wicket-keeper, although he no longer kept wicket at the end of his Test career. Currently, he is the second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket and the fifth-highest run scorer in Test cricket.

Sangakkara is described as one of the "most polished and prudent of batsmen" in cricket. He has dominated the number one spot in the ICC Test batting rankings between 2005 and 2015. On 12 August 2015, Sangakkara was placed at number 5 in the ICC Test rankings.

Sangakkara was a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20. He won the Man of the Match award in the final of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, where he helped the team win their first title.

He was the youngest person and the first active international player to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, which was widely praised by the cricketing community for its outspoken nature.

In terms of a number of innings required, Sangakkara is the fastest batsman to reach 8,000, 9,000, 11,000 and 12,000 runs in Test cricket. He is also joint fastest to 10,000. He won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012, Test Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and ODI Cricketer of the Year multiple times in 2011 and 2013. He has also won the LG People's Choice Award twice, in 2011 and 2012. Sangakkara has regularly featured in the World Test XI and World ODI XI, appearing six times and three times in them, respectively. He was selected as Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2015 edition of Wisden.


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