Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper.

Sangakkara started his career as a batmsan but subsequently became a wicket-keeper also. His keeping has developed to such an extent that he was once considered the best wicket-keeping batsman in the world.

In 2006 however he gave wicket-keeping to Prasanna Jayawardene in Tests and has since played as a specialist batsman. He remains Sri Lanka’s wicket-keeper in One-Day International cricket.

In December 2007 Kumar Sangakkara was named as the new Number 1 batsman in the ICC Test player rankings with a rating of 938, the highest rating ever achieved by a Sri Lankan player, and became the first batsman ever to score in excess of 150 in four consecutive tests.