Who is Kumar Sangakkara

Kumara Chokshanada Sangakkara (Sinhala: කුමාර චොක්ශන්ද සංගක්කාර; born 27 October 1977) is a cricket commentator, cricketer and former player and captain of the Sri Lankan national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.^[1][2][3][4] Sangakkara scored 28,016 runs in international cricket across all formats in a career that spanned 15 years.^[5] At retirement, he was the second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket and sixth-highest run scorer in Test cricket.^[6][7]

Sangakkara is a left-handed top-order batsman and was wicket-keeper for many years in his career. Sangakkara holds many test records, having been the fastest to various run milestones in test cricket.^[8] Sangakkara's partnership with Mahela Jayawardene holds the current batting partnership record in Test cricket.^{[1][9][10][11][12][13]} and the most wicket keeping dismissals in ODI cricket^[14]

Sangakkara won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012^[15] and featured in many awards and Word Test & ODI XIs during his career. He was selected as Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2012 and 2015 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,^[16][17] becoming the second player to have won this award twice.^[18] Sangakkara was rated as the Greatest ODI player of all time in a public poll conducted by Cricket Australia in 2016. Sangakkara won the Man of the Match in the finals of 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.

In 2019, he was appointed to the role of President of the MCC, the first non-British person to the position since the club was founded in 1787.^[19][20] 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.^[21][22]

   

Personal information
Full name	Kumara Chokshanada Sangakkara
Born	27 October 1977 (age 42) 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	Sri Lanka (2000–2015)
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
T20I shirt no.	11
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
2013–2017	Jamaica Tallawahs
2014	Durham
2014	Udarata Rulers
2015–2017	Surrey
2015–2017	Dhaka Dynamites
2016	Quetta Gladiators
2017	Karachi Kings
2018	Multan Sultans
2020	MCC
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 134 404 56 260 Runs scored 12,400 14,234 1,382 20,911 Batting average 57.40 41.98 31.40 52.40 100s/50s 38/52 25/93 0/8 64/86 Top score 319 169 78 319 Balls bowled 84 – – 246 Wickets 0 – – 1 Bowling average – – – 150.00 5 wickets in innings – – – 0 10 wickets in match – – – 0 Best bowling – – – 1/13 Catches/stumpings 182/20 402/99 25/20 371/33
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 28 September 2017