Kumar Sangakkara Biography

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Biography

Wicketkeeper has an important role in cricket, although there have been many wicketkeepers in world cricket, but only a few of them are known to us today. Wicketkeeper in record world cricket and batting better than Dhoni Kumar Sangakkara has also been the captain of Sri Lanka for a long time, under his captaincy the Sri Lankan team has won many matches. Used to do wicketkeeper for Sri Lanka as well as he was a right handed batsman

Biography of Kumar Sangakkara

Born	Oct 27, 1977
Birth Place	Matale
Height	5.9
Batting Style	Left Handed Bat
Bowling Style	Right-arm offbreak

Birth & Education of Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara's full name is Kumar Chokshanda Sangakkara. Sangakkara was born on 27 October 1977 in Matale, Sri Lanka).

Kumar Sangakkara used to be very smart in studies as well as cricket, he got his early education from Kandi College, Trinity, he has played cricket for a long time on behalf of his school cricket team.

Kumar Sangakkara used to show a lot of talent in both tennis and cricket during his school days but at the behest of the school principal of his school, Mr. Leonard D. Alvis, he insisted more on playing cricket while his mother also encouraged him towards cricket.

Kumar Sangakkara's family

Kumar Sangakkara's family is an intermediate Tamil family. Apart from his parents, there are four siblings in his family, in which Kumar Sanakara is the youngest, he has a sister playing tennis as well. Talking about Kumar Sangakkara's wife, Kumar Sangakkara's. Wife's name is Yahali, who is a lawyer. Kumar Sangakkara also has two twins, one of which is a girl, he is a boy.

Early Career of Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara started his cricket career at the age of 6, when he was 11 years old, his father joined him in the cricket academy. But once his team saw the lack of wicket-keeper batsman, his coach advised him to do wicket-keeper in that match. Encouraged to do wicketkeeping with him and since then till date he is included in the list of well-known wicketkeeper batsmen of world cricket.

Kumar Sangakkara Domestic Cricket Career

Kumar Sangakkara started his domestic cricket career in 1993. Kumar Sangakkara used to play cricket at that time for Matale of Sri Lanka. He performed brilliantly, due to his brilliant performance, he got a place in the Sri Lankan team.

International cricket career of Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara was very brilliant for international cricket, he was a great player of international cricket, Kumar Singh started his international cricket career in 2000, after his arrival, the role of 1 wicket keeper in the Sri Lankan cricket team had changed.

Kumar Sangakkara has been one of the best wicket-keeper batsman in the new world cricket of the Sri Lankan team.

Kumar Sangakkara debut in ODI cricket

Kumar Sangakkara has made many records in ODI cricket, which are not impossible to break. He has taken many great catches while wicketkeeping, has done many excellent stumpings while he has also made a significant contribution with the bat while he captained in ODI cricket. Kumar Sangakkara has made a great contribution Talk about Kumar Sangakkara started his ODI cricket career against Pakistan on July 5, 2000 169, he scored 25 centuries and 93 half-centuries in his ODI cricket career.

Kumar Sangakkara is one of the players who took his international cricket career for a long time. But he performed brilliantly in his last match, scoring 45 runs in 40 balls.

Kumar Sangakkara's Test Cricket Debut

Kumar Sangakkara also took his Test cricket career for a long time, he started his Test cricket career against South Africa on 20 July 2000 Kumar Sangakkara has scored the highest score in Test cricket, 319, he has scored 38 centuries, 11 double centuries and 52 half-centuries in Test cricket. He had a great career in Test cricket, he retired from Test cricket on 20 August 2015, where he played his last match against India, where Kumar Sangakkara scored 32 runs in the first innings and 18 runs in the second innings.

T20 cricket career of Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara started his T20 cricket career against India on June 15, 2006, Kumar Sangakkara scored 21 runs in the first T20 match, Kumar Sangakkara has played 56 matches in T20 cricket, where he Has scored 1382 runs where his score is 78 runs He has also scored 8 half-centuries in T20 cricket

Kumar Sangakkara played his last T20 match against India on 6 April 2014, where Kumar Sangakkara performed brilliantly in his last match, scoring 52 not out in 35 balls with the help of 6 fours and a six. It was very memorable and he played a key role in helping Sri Lanka win this match due to his brilliant performance.

IPL Career of Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is one of those Sri Lankan players who have also played in IPL Kumar Sangakkara started his IPL cricket career with Kings XI Punjab where he played his first match against Chennai Super Kings on 19 April 2008. In the first match, Kumar Sangakkara scored 54 runs in 33 balls with the help of five fours and two sixes. Kumar Sangakkara has played for the team of Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.

Kumar Shankar played his last match of IPL on 8th May 2013

Kumar Sangakkara's Debut and Retirement in International Cricket

Test debut
vs South Africa at Galle International Stadium, Jul 20, 2000
Last Test
vs India at P Sara Oval, Aug 20, 2015
ODI debut
vs Pakistan at Galle International Stadium, Jul 05, 2000
Last ODI
vs South Africa at Sydney Cricket Ground, Mar 18, 2015
T20 debut
vs England at The Rose Bowl, Jun 15, 2006
Last T20
vs India at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Apr 06, 2014
IPL debut
vs Chennai Super Kings at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Apr 19, 2008
Last IPL
vs Chennai Super Kings at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, May 08, 2013

Kumar Sangakkara cricket record

Batting Career Summary

M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	200	50	4s	6s
Test	134	233	16	12400	319	57.14	22882	54.19	38	11	52	1491	51
ODI	404	380	41	14234	169	41.99	18049	78.86	25	0	93	1385	88
T20I	56	53	9	1382	78	31.41	1156	119.55	0	0	8	139	20
IPL	71	68	3	1687	94	25.95	1392	121.19	0	0	10	195	27

2009 attack on Sri Lanka national cricket team

When the Sri Lankan team had once gone to Pakistan to play a cricket series, they had to face a lot of trouble because at that time the hotel in which the players of the Sri Lankan cricket team was staying was attacked due to which 6 of the Sri Lankan cricket team were attacked. The players were injured, since then they had refused to go there to play any international cricket, but in 2020 this ban was lifted and in a few days, they started going there to play cricket, but not once in Sri Lanka so far. Went there to play cricket.