Kumar Sangakkara is one of the greatest cricketers to have graced this game. He is undoubtedly the greatest Sri Lankan batter. The stats speak for themselves. Sangakkara has an exceptional career in both formats, Test and ODIs. In ODI cricket he has 14234 runs to his name in 404 matches at an average of 41.98. In the whites, he represented Sri Lanka in 134 matches, scoring 12400 runs at an astonishing average of 57.40.
3 best batting figures of Kumar Sangakkara in Test Cricket:
319 vs Bangladesh, 2014
Kumar Sangakkara’s career-best performance came against Bangladesh at Chittagong. He scored his only triple-century in 2014. The Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat first. On a placid wicket and against a fragile bowling attack, Sangakkara completely outclassed the Bangladesh bowling lineup to score his first triple ton. Eventually, the match ended in a draw but will be remembered for Sangakkara’s heroics.
287 vs South Africa, 2006
This momentous knock from Sangakkara came in a historic partnership with his favourite teammate Mahela Jayawardene.
In the first innings, Sri Lanka restricted South Africa to 169 runs. Sri Lanka, in reply, dominated the South African bowlers and this domination was the result of a batting masterclass from Kumar Sangakkara and Jayawardene. Sri Lanka scored 756/5 in the first innings and ultimately won the match by an innings and 153 runs.
270 vs Zimbabwe, 2004
Another classy double century for Sangakkara came on African soil against Zimbabwe. He scored 270 runs in the 2nd test match of that series which was completely controlled by Sri Lanka right from the word go.
Zimbabwe batted first and put 228 runs on the board but that proved to be a dwarf sum in front of the Sri Lankan batting lineup. Sri Lanka scored 713/3 in the first innings which consisted of three centuries from Marvan Atapattu (249), Kumar Sangakkara (270), and Mahela Jayawardene (100*).
In the end, Sri Lanka won the match comfortably by an innings and 254 runs.
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