Kumar Sangakkara being carried by team mates at Galle after SL won the Test Match on Aug 15,2015
Kumar Sangakkara bids farewell to international cricket after playing the second of the three Tests against India in Colombo (August 20-24).
Kumar Sangakkara quit ODIs after Sri Lanka lost in the World Cup quarters.
Last year, Kumar Sangakkara called time on his T20 career when Sri Lanka won the World Twenty20 Championship.
Kumar Sangakkara also wanted to quit Tests after the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, but accepted a request from selectors to stay on and agreed to play two Tests each against Pakistan and India.
Statistics may not always tell the whole story, but in Sangakkara's case they illuminate a glorious career marked with a prolific hunger for runs and the ability to dominate rival attacks in all conditions.
Kumar Sangakkara who has scored 12,350 runs from 133 Tests with 38 centuries put him in fifth place in the all-time run-getters' list and head and shoulders above those still playing at the top level.
Kumar Sangakkara, the most successful left-hander ever in terms of runs and centuries, also boasts the highest average of 57.71 among the 10 most prolific Test batsmen of all time
Kumar Sangakkara has compiled 200-plus scores 11 times -- 10 double centuries and one triple hundred -- leaving him just one short of Australian legend Don Bradman's record of 12
Kumar Sangakkara's career best score is 319 Runs Vs Bangladesh in 2014
Kumar Sangakkara needs from his last match at P Sara Oval to become only the third batsman to score 1000-plus Test runs at four venues.
Ricky Ponting (Australia) and Jacques Kallis(SA)are the two batsmen who have already done this.
Kumar Sangakkara is the top runs-scorer at P Sara Oval having made 855 runs at an average of 50.29.
Kumar Sangakkara has at least 1000 Runs at Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo, in Galle and in Kandy.
Kumar Sangakkara scored a ton at P Sara Oval Vs India in 2008 .Since then, in 11 innings here Sangakkara has made 311 runs at an average of 28.72 including two fifties. In his last three Tests at this venue, he has made 71 runs at an average of 11.83, including three of the 11 ducks of his Test career
A recent poll by the Cricinfo website had a staggering 48 percent of respondents vote for Sangakkara as Sri Lanka's greatest cricketer, 15 percent more than all-time wicket-taking record holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who was billed as the obvious choice.
Former team-mate Mahela Jayawardene, with whom Sangakkara shared a world-record partnership of 624 against South Africa in 2006, described his close friend as one of the game's greats.
"In any international sport, there are only a few who attained greatness in every aspect, whether for your performance on the field or your conduct off it. Kumar was one such player," Jayawardene said in a recent interview.
Sri Lankan fans will hope Sangakkara signs off in style, just as he did when he bowed out of Twenty20 internationals last year by smashing an unbeaten 52 to steer Sri Lanka past India in the World Twenty20 final in Dhaka
Whatever happens in his final Test, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara is assured of a place in history as one of the finest batsmen who graced the game
Kumar Sangakkara was given a guard of honour on the first morning of his final Test Match Vs India at P Sara Oval on Thursday Aug 20,2015
Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara stands with his wife Yehali and children during his retirement ceremony after India won their second test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Colombo August 24, 2015
Kumar Sangakkara Career Statistics
India captain Virat Kohli presents his Test jersey to Kumar Sangakkara
In one of the rare sights witnessed on a cricket field, captain
Virat Kohli presented his India Test jersey, signed by all his
team-mates, to the retiring Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara on
Monday Aug 24,2015
On Monday Aug 24,2015, India defeated Sri Lanka by 278 runs on the 5th and final
day of the 2nd Test to level the 3-match series 1-1. After the match, it
was all about Sangakkara, who bid adieu to international cricket.
ODI Debut July 05,2000 Vs Pakistan
Last ODI Vs South Africa on March 18,2015
- ODI's -404
- Runs -14234
- 100's -25
- 50's -93
- Topscore -169
- Average -41.98
- Catches/Stumpings - 402/99
Test Debut July 20,2000 Vs South Africa
Last Tebut Vs India in P Sara Oval Colombo Aug 20-24,2015
Tests -134
Innings 234
Runs 12400
100's - 38
50's - 52
Topscore -319 Vs Bangladesh
Average 57.40
T20 Debut Vs England June 15,2006
Last T20 Vs India April 06,2014
- T20's -56
- Runs -1382
- 100's -Nil
- 50's -8
- Topscore -78
- Average -31.40
- Catches/Stumpings -25/20
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