Meet Kumar Sangakkara, All time favourite cricketer in test cricket

Kumar Sangakkara, former Sri Lanka skipper and wicket-keeper batsman who is known for his cool temperament and ultimate chasing ability is an all-time favourite cricketer in the world. Sangakkara is also known as the best wicket-keeper just after Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He made his ODI debut on 5 July 2000 while he got his first chance in Test on 22 July 2000. Sangakkara is the only batsman to score the fastest 8,000, 9,000 and 11,000 runs in test cricket. Sangakkara maturity was first shown in Colombo in 2006, when he and his close friend Mahela Jayawardene, added 624 against a South African attack boasting Dale Steyn and Makhaya Ntini. Sangakkara contributed 287 and did his reputation no wrong a year later when he went to Hobart and scored a cheezy 192 in a close defeat.

In 2010 Sangakkara becoming the equal fastest man to complete 10,000 Test runs alongside Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, with the biggest Test crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Sri Lanka had ever played for an audience. Sangakkara has a great record against Pakistan, has scored 2,911 runs in 23 test matches, with a batting average of 52, has scored 1352 runs in 17 games. In test cricket, he has scored 38 centuries, 10 out of which were come against Pakistan. Sangakkara has 12,400 runs in Test cricket with a batting average of 57.40.

Sangakkara Batting Record 

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	134	233	17	12400	319	57.40	22882	54.19	38	52	1491	51	182	20
ODIs	404	380	41	14234	169	41.98	18048	78.86	25	93	1385	88	402	99
T20Is	56	53	9	1382	78	31.40	1156	119.55	0	8	139	20	25	20
First-class	260	430	31	20911	319	52.40			64	86			371	33
List A	528	500	54	19453	169	43.61			39	120			518	124
T20s	264	257	23	6850	94	29.27	5417	126.45	0	42	732	136	164	60

Sangakkara Captaincy Record

Sangakkara’s results in international matches
	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	No result
Test	134*	54	42	37	0	–
ODI	404	217	167	–	2	17
T20I	56	34	20	–	1	1

Sangakkara has performed in five seasons of the (IPL) Indian Premier League. He also Won the bids for him in 2008 and 2011 were US$700,000 by Kings XI Punjab and US$300,000 by Deccan Chargers respectively. He was the captain of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team IN 2009 IPL Season. Sangakkara has scored 1567 runs with ten half-centuries in 62 matches in IPL. With these record, we can easily say that he is a tremendous cricketer not only on the ground but also outside the ground he is also a good friend.