Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara

 He is a left-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He educated at Trinity College, Kandy. 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 cricket. As on January 2009, he was ranked 3rd on the Test batting rankings. He peaked at 6th on the ICC all-time Test batting rankings.

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara

 

Sangakkara likes to hit the ball square of the wicket on the off-side and once 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.