Kumar Sangakkara became the first batsman to score four consecutive centuries in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup Wednesday March 11,2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kumar Sangakkara Creates ODI Record with 4th Successive Ton

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara on Wednesday became the first batsman in the world to score four consecutive centuries in the World Cup 2015

Kumar Sangakkara accomplished this achievement against Scotland on Wednesday March 11,2015 at the Bellerive Oval, Hobart when he scored 124 Runs(95 Balls with 4x13 and 6x4)-25th ODI Ton

Kumar Sangakkara surpassed 6 players who had scored 3 ODI centuries in a row.They were -
Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar of Pakistan
the South African trio of Herschelle Gibbs, AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock, and
Ross Taylor of New Zealand

Kumar Sangakkara also became the first batsman to score four hundreds in a single edition of a World Cup. Previously, Australians Mark Waugh and Matthew Hayden along with India's Sourav Ganguly held the record with three against their name

Kumar Sangakkaras tally of 25 ODI hundreds is exceeded only by three batsmen -- Sachin Tendulkar (49), Ricky Ponting (30) and Sanath Jayasuriya(28)

Kumar Sangakkara Career Record
	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest
Tests	225	12,203	58.66	319
ODIs	379	14,189	41.97	169
T20i	53	1,382	31.40	78

Note

Kumar Sangakkara's previous three tons scored

• 105 not out against Bangladesh on Thursday March 26,2015@ MCG,Australia
• 117 not out against England on Sunday March 01,2015 @Wellington,NZ
• 104 against Australia on Sunday March 08,2015 @ SCG,Australia

Before Kumar Sangakkara, six batsmen had scored three consecutive tons in ODIs: Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan), Saeed Anwar (Pakistan), Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa), AB de Villiers (South Africa), Quinton de Kock (South Africa) and Ross Taylor (New Zealand).