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  2. Kumar Sangakkara has scored 63 international centuries. Kumar Sangakkara is a retired Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman and plays as the wicket-keeper in One Day International (ODI) format of the game.

    No.
    Score
    Against
    Pos.
    38
    203
    3
    37
    221
    3
    36
    147
    3
    35
    105 †
    3
  3. Sangakkara contributed 287 and did his burgeoning reputation no harm a year later when he went to Hobart and scored a dazzling 192 in a close defeat. By then, he already had a half-century in...

    • Male
    • November 27, 1977
    • Sri Lanka
  4. Top records are a selection of the records (from among those listed under the Test, ODI, T20I and Combined categories) in which the player is in the top ten. If the player has multiple entries in...

    • Most Runs In A Calendar Year. Sangakkara has the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a calendar year; just before his retirement in 2015, he achieved this biggie in the year 2014 by breaking the record of Ricky Ponting and scoring 2868 runs in just 57 innings and by facing 4254 balls with the highest score being 314.
    • Most Boundaries. Scoring boundaries is always considered an outstanding achievement in cricket, and Sanga has the record of having the maximum number of boundaries after the Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
    • Most Hundreds In A Career. The Sri Lankan gem scored 64 centuries in his career, in fourth position in the most centuries list. He scored 25 One Day International (ODI), 38 test centuries, and 0 Twenty20 (T20) centuries.
    • Most Dismissals. Sanga is considered one of the best batters in Sri Lanka, but he was a very underrated bowler and fielder. Through his bowling and fielding for fifteen long years, he dismissed 678 batters through bowling, stumping, and fielding in 499 innings; he is in fourth place in the dismissal rankings.
    • Early Career
    • Vice-Captaincy
    • Captaincy
    • Post-captaincy
    • World Record
    • Final Words

    Kumar Sangakkara was a law student before he entered professional cricket. At the age of 22 years, he played his first test match. He was a replacement for Kaliwuthirana and scored 23 runs in one inning. He scored 35 runs in his first ODI match in 2000. In the 2nd ODI match, he was the man of the match and scored 85 runs against South Africa. In th...

    In 2006, Mahela Jayawardene became the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team, and Sangakkara became the vice-captain. In the same year, Sangakkara scored his second-highest score in test cricket. There was a record-breaking partnership between Sangakkara and Jayawardene. The test match was against South Africa, and the pair captain and vice-captai...

    Finally the time has come when he was named the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. The main reason is that Jayawardene stepped down from captaincy. Sangakkara’s first adventure as a captain was the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. And Sri Lanka was the runners-up in the tournament, losing against Pakistan. He scored 64 runs in the final, but Sri Lanka...

    In 2011-12, Sangakkara was the man of the series against Pakistan. In 2013, he was also the ODI Cricketer of the Year. In the same year, he was appointed to the ICC World XI Test team as the wicket-keeper captain. Sri Lanka won a test series against England, where he scored 192. After the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan, this was the first time ...

    There are a couple of records that are not impossible, but really hard to cross for anyone. 1. Second highest run scorer (ODI) 2. Sixth highest run scorer (Test) 3. Second most double centuries (11) 4. Fourth highest centuries (38) 5. Most Dismissals (383 catches +99 stumps) 6. Four consecutive hundreds

    To talk about Kumar Sangakkara in 10 to 15 minutes is not a work for a human being. The main is full of discipline, he has been a born leader, there was not a single controversy against him, and most importantly, before M.S. Dhoni, this man was famous for his cool mind. Kumar Sangakkara will be remembered as long as there is cricket, batting, and w...

  5. Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara - Test Cricket, statistics, graphs, performance analysis, innings, partnerships, dismissals, catches, runs, wickets, records.

  6. Sangakkara. Sri Lanka. As elegant as they came, Sangakkara climbed from strength to strength across his 15-year international career. A T20 World Cup winner, two-time Cricket World Cup runner-up, and frequently No.1 in the Test batting rankings, Sangakkara thrived in every format.