Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara (Sinhala: කුමාර් සංගක්කාර) (conceived 27 October 1977) is a Sri Lankan worldwide cricketer and a previous commander of the Sri Lankan national group, generally viewed as the best batsman generated by Sri Lanka. A left-gave top-request batsman, for much of his profession he likewise played as a wicket-attendant, despite the fact that he probably won't keeps wicket at Test level. Sangakkara captained the national group from 2009 to 2011, venturing down after the 2011 ICC World Cup last. That year, he was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the ICC honors ceremony.[1] In 2012, he was respected as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.[2]

Sangakkara is depicted as a standout amongst the "most cleaned and judicious of batsmen" in cricket.[3][4] Currently Kumar Sangakkara is put at number 2 in ICC test rankings.[5][6][7] With 9 twofold centuries, he is second in the rundown of Test twofold century-creators, behind just Donald Bradman (12) and equivalent to Brian Lara (9). He is additionally the first cricketer ever to score 150+ scores in four sequential Test matches.[8] As the wicket manager, he has helped the third most astounding number of rejections in Odis—382.[9] It incorporates 81 stumpings, which is the most noteworthy for a wicket attendant in one-day global cricket.[10]

Sangakkara conveyed the 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, which picked up overall attention.[11] He was the most youthful individual and the first present global player to convey that address, which was generally lauded by the cricketing group for its blunt nature.[12][13]

On 26 December 2012 he arrived at 10000 test match runs in 195 innings turning into the joint quickest to get there, the same number it took Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar to achieve the same figure.[14] Previously, he had been the speediest to achieve 8000 and 9000 test match runs, finishing so in 152 and 172 innings individually, a record that holds till date. On fifth February 2014, Sangakkara turned into the speediest batsman to achieve 11000 Test runs in 208 innings, in the wake of scoring his first triple hundred (319), against Bangladesh in Chittagong. He has won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012, Test Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and ODI Cricketer of the Year various times in 2011 and 2013.[15] He has additionally won the LG People's Choice Award twice, in 2011 and 2012. Sangakkara has normally offered in the World Test XI and World ODI XI, seeming 6 times and 3 times in them, individually.

On February 25, 2014 Kumar Sangakkara finished 12000 runs in One-day internationals while playing the Asia Cup match against Pakistan at the Khan Shaheb Os