"Kumar Sangakkara" the Sri Lankan captain is well known name for every cricket lover and mostly Sri Lankan fans both young and elder persons."Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara" is his Full name and He is known as "Sanga" by his cricket lovers. He was born in Matale located in central part of Sri Lanka.
Sangakkara entered to Trinity college in Kandy, Sri Lanka for his studies and from there he began his cricket career. He also was a good cricket player.in his school age as he played for the both school cricket team and the Tennis team . MR.Leonard De Alwis who was the principal of his college advised his mother to pursue Sangakkara towards cricket as he has plenty of talent in Cricket as compared to Tennis.
Sangakkara has three siblings one Brother and two sisters .One of his sister is a Sportswomen and renowned as a keen Tennis player.
In the early days he began his career as a batsman ,subsequently he became a wicket- keeper and recently he is doing wicket-keeping as well as batting for national Sri Lankan Team. He is very talented in both sides. He was in the top list in the "LG ICC test batting rankings". His contribution to the Sri Lankan team in One Day International and Twenty20 Cricket is remarkable . As a result of his unique Batting he was ranked as the top batsman in the Test bating rankings.and he remained above the 6th rank on ICC all-time Batting rankings.
His batting style is "Left-Handed" and his bowling style is "Right arm off break". He made his Test debut against South Africa in 2000 July 20 and scored 84 runs and 2000 July 5 he entered the ground to play his first ODI -One Day International debut against Pakistan and got success by scoring 93 runs. In ODI career his T-Shirt number is 11 and he plays for Nondescripts ,Warwickshire domestically but has also played for IPL-Indian Premium League as a member of Kings XI Punjab team in his career till now.
Sanga got married to a leading female lawyer in Kandy named as "Yehali". She is a law undergraduate. Sanga and Yehali have two children as twins. They got this good news on 30th June 2009 , one of them is a girl and the other is boy.
Unfortunately Sangakkara and his team met with a terrorist attack in Pakistan on 3rd March 2009 but fortunately he and his team were saved due to the brave Pakistani soldiers and Police who scarified their lives to save the Sri Lankan team. Sanga and some of other fellows got minor injuries but recovered soon.
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