Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 International career
* 3 Domestic cricket
* 4 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
* 5 Personal life
* 6 Player Statistics
o 6.1 Career performance
+ 6.1.1 Performance against each opponent
o 6.2 Test Centuries
o 6.3 One Day International Centuries
* 7 Half Centuries
o 7.1 Test Half Centuries
* 8 Awards
o 8.1 Test Cricket - Man of the match awards
o 8.2 One-Day International Cricket - Man of the series awards
o 8.3 One-Day International Cricket - Man of the match awards
* 9 Product and brand endorsements
* 10 See also
* 11 References
* 12 External links
Early life
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara was born to Kumari and Chokshanada Sangakkara at Matale in 1977. Sangakkara is a product of the Trinity College, Kandy where he received the coveted Trinity Lion for Cricket and was the Ryde Medalist of his year.He was the Senior Prefect (Head Boy) of Trinity College in 1996. Sangakkara showed talents in both cricket and tennis at school, and it was the school's Principal, Mr. Leonard De Alwis who advised his mother to encourage him to pursue cricket.
International career
Sangakkara began his career as a batsman but subsequently became a wicket-keeper. His batting has developed to such an extent that he once topped the LG ICC Test batting rankings. However, in 2006 he gave the gloves to Prasanna Jayawardene in Tests and has since played as a specialist batsman. He remains Sri Lanka's wicket-keeper in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket. As of September 2009, he was ranked 1st on the Test batting rankings. Sangakkara peaked at 6th on the ICC all-time Test batting rankings.
Sangakkara likes to hit the ball square of the wicket on the off-side and upon making a century, consistently continues on past 150. On the 6 December 2007 he was named as the new Number 1 batsman in the LG ICC Test player rankings with a rating of 938, the highest rating ever achieved by a Sri Lankan player, and became the first batsman ever to score in excess of 150 in four consecutive tests. His skill was recognized worldwide when he earned selection for the ICC World XI One International Day team that competed against Australia in the Johnnie Walker Series in October 2005. He holds the record for fastest 8000 runs (152 innings) in Test cricket. He broke the previous record set by Sachin Tendulkar (154 innings) during the third test against India on 6 August 2010. Despite the World XI losing all of the one-day games by considerable margins, Sangakkara left the series with some credit, averaging 46.
Sangakkara was billed as a future captain of Sri Lanka.On Sri Lanka's tour to England in May 2006, he was named the vice-captain of the side. In March 2009 he was appointed to captain the Sri Lankan team for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Sangakkara has won a certain degree of admiration for his clever use of sledging and is one of few cricketers who are willing to talk about it openly.
Domestic cricket
Sangakkara plays his domestic cricket for Nondescripts in Sri Lanka. Sangakkara has played English county cricket with Warwickshire in the 2007 County Championship. In 2010 Sangakkara was confirmed to represent Lancashire in the 2010 County Championship. Lancashire coach, Peter Moores said "Kumar is hot property at the moment and rightly so. He is arguably the most consistent batsman in international cricket with an outstanding average in all formats, making his signing a real coup for Lancashire. Not only will he bring his qualities as a player to the squad but his experience and knowledge will be invaluable."However, Sangakkara never played for Lancashire as he was unavailable due to international commitments
2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
Main article: 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
On 3 March 2009, a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team convoy injured several players, including Sangakkara, and also injuring six other people in the convoy.
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