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As a player, Sangakkara was a left-handed top-order batsman and was also a wicket-keeper for a large proportion of his career. Sangakkara holds many Test records, having been the fastest, or joint-fastest to various run milestones in Test cricket.Sangakkara's partnership with Mahela Jayawardene was the second most prolific in the history of Test cricket.Additionally, he holds the record for the most wicket keeping dismissals in ODI cricket.
Sangakkara won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012 and won many other awards for both Test and ODI cricket. He was selected as Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2012 and 2015 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, becoming the second player to have won this award twice. Sangakkara was rated as the Greatest ODI player of all time in a public poll conducted by Cricket Australia in 2016. He won the Man of the Match in the finals of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 tournament and was part of the team that made the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20. He won the Man of the Match award in the final of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, where he helped Sri Lanka win their first title.
In 2019, he was appointed President of the MCC, the first non-British person to be appointed to the position since the club was founded in 1787.He was the youngest person and the first active international player to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, which was widely praised by the cricketing community for its outspoken nature.In June 2021, he was inducted to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame and became the second Sri Lankan to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame after Muttiah Muralitharan.
Sangakkara was born in Matale, Central Province near the city of Kandy in 1977.He grew up in Kandy with three siblings and his parents.
Sangakkara received his education at Trinity College, Kandy. During his school days, he was a chorister and played the violin.
Sanga was the Senior Prefect of school and entered the Law Faculty of the University of Colombo,
Sangakkara is married to his longtime partner, Yehali with whom he has twin children.Daughter Swyree and son Kavith.This is just a bit of his life.I like him because he's so talented. he's always been my favorite player.
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