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• Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential cricketers and one of the greatest batsmen of all-time.

• 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. Sangakkara scored 28,016 runs in international cricket across all formats in a career that spanned 15 years.

• A left-handed top-order batsman, he is also a record-breaking wicket-keeper, although he no longer kept wicket at the end of his Test career. Currently, he is the second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket and the fifth-highest run scorer in Test cricket.

• Sangakkara is described as one of the “most polished and prudent of batsmen” in cricket. He dominated the number one spot in the ICC Test batting rankings between 2005 and 2015.