Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sanga Chokshanada Sangakkara is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan national team. Widely regarded as one of the worlds most influential greatest cricketers, Sangakkara is also regarded as Sri Lankas matchwinner and one of the best batsmen to have played for Sri Lanka. Sangakkara has forged many formidable partnerships with long time team mate and friend, Mahela Jayawardene and holds numerous batting records in the modern era across all formats of the game. He is second to Sachin Tendulkar in terms of most international runs with 28,016.

Sangakkara born to Kumari Surangana and Swarnakumara Sangakkara, an attorneyatlaw at Matale, Sri Lanka in 1977. His parents settled in Kandy, where he grew up in his childhood. Sangakkara received his primary and secondary education at Trinity College, Kandy, an independent elite private boys school situated in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. He has two sisters Thushari and Saranga, and an elder brother Vemindra, all who have made national level achievements during their schoollife. Sangakkara too started playing a number of sports badminton, tennis, swimming, table tennis and cricket at the junior school. He was able to win national colours for badminton and tennis at his younger age. The then principal of the Trinity College, Leonard de Alwis, advised his mother to encourage Sangakkara to concentrate on cricket.

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