Kumar Sangakkara

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Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka (SL)

Batting style	Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm Offbreak (OB)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	64	176
Runs scored	5056	5076
Batting average	48.93	36.00
100s/50s	12/22	5/34
Top score	287	138*
Balls bowled	6	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	142/20	149/46
As of 10 October 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara (born October 27, 1977 at Matale) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left hand batsman, batting in the No. 3 position, who learnt to become a wicket-keeper and has subsequently become a specialist wicketkeeper also.

His wicket keeping has improved to such an extent that he is now considered, by the LG ICC Test ratings, the best current wicket-keeping batsman. He likes to hit the ball square of the wicket on the off-side. His skill is recognised worldwide to the extent that he was selected for the ICC World XI One Day team that competed against Australia in the Johnnie Walker Series in October 2005. Despite the World XI losing all of the one-day games considerably, Sangakkara succeeded in leaving the series some credit, averaging 46.

In July 2006, he scored his highest Test score of 287 against South Africa and shared in a record-breaking partnership of 624 with Mahela Jayawardene. This is a world record in both Test and first class cricket, and was the first case of a partnership of 600 or more in a first-class or Test match innings. The previous Test record was also held by a Sri Lankan pair - Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama, who put on 576 against India at Colombo in August 1997. Sangakkara has hit three other double centuries in Test cricket, and only one of his nine completed centuries has been less than 138, indicating that Sangakkara has good concentration levels even after he reaches a century.

Sangakkara also has five ODI centuries, including one against Australia in Colombo, 2004, in his hundredth match.

Sangakkara is also 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.

Other than cricket, he is studying to become a lawyer. Sangakkara is a product of Trinity College, Kandy, the only secondary school in the world to boast of owning an international Test cricket ground, the Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium. Sangakkara is renowned for his quirky soundbites and propensity to engage in verbal sledging with opponents.

1 Player Statistics
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Player Statistics

[edit] Career performance

Kumar Sangakkara's career performance graph.

[edit] Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Kumar Sangakkara.

In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

[edit] One-day International centuries

Test Centuries of Kumar Sangakkara
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	105*	10	India	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle Stadium	2001
[2]	140	14	West Indies	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle Stadium	2001
[3]	128	17	Zimbabwe	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2002
[4]	230	20	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	2002
[5]	270	38	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club	2004
[6]	232	42	South Africa	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2004
[7]	138	44	Pakistan	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2004
[8]	157	48	West Indies	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2005
[9]	185	56	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2006
[10]	287	61	South Africa	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2006	[11]	100*	63	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand	Jade Stadium	2006
[12]	156	64	New Zealand	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2006

ODI Centuries of Kumar Sangakkara
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	100*	86	Pakistan	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah C.A. Stadium	2003
[2]	103*	87	Kenya	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah C.A. Stadium	2001
[3]	101	100	Australia	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	2004
[4]	138*	141	India	Jaipur, India	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	2005
[5]	109	163	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Chittagong Divisional Stadium	2006

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

	Sri Lanka squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Jayasuriya \| 2 Atapattu \| 3 Jayawardene \| 4 Sangakkara \| 5 De Silva \| 6 Arnold \| 7 Mubarak \| 8 Tillakaratne \| 9 Muralitharan \| 10 Vaas \| 11 Fernando \| 12 Gunaratne \| 13 Gunawardene \| 14 Nissanka \| 15 Buddhika \| Coach: Whatmore