Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will be Lancashire’s overseas player next season, the English county announced Monday. The 32-year-old Sangakkara, one of the world’s leading batsmen, will arrive at Old Trafford once he has completed his international commitments at the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean and at the proposed Asia Cup. Sangakkara has been a [...]
Virender Sehwag, who oversaw India’s last two one-day international wins, believed his team was handed an advantage when Kumar Sangakkara opted to bat. The pitch in Kolkata was expected to play slow and low but the dew was expected to counter that advantage for the team batting first. In the end, Sehwag’s hunch proved right [...]
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara is looking to capitalise on the absence of opposite number Mahendra Singh Dhoni from India’s side ahead of the third one-dayer in Cuttack on Monday. Dhoni misses the next two games of the five-match series after being hit with a ban from the International Cricket Council for maintaining a slow [...]
Kumar Sangakkara starred with his highest Twenty20 score, a serenely-destructive 37-ball 78, as Sri Lanka thumped India by 29 runs in Nagpur. Chamara Kapugedera pitched in with a cameo to charge Sri Lanka to 215, a total that proved too much for India, who fell away after a promising start provided by Gautam Gambhir. Gambhir [...]
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara was gracious in defeat after his side was heavily beaten in the three Test series against India when he admitted India completely outplayed his team, but criticized the International Cricket Council’s inability to implement the Umpire Referral System after the Indian board rejected the move. “I feel 2-0 is a [...]
Sri Lanka are the world’s second-best Test side yet their fast-bowling line-up is unlikely to send shivers down a batsman’s spine. Their five-member pace contingent for the India tour, comprising Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Dammika Prasad, Angelo Mathews and Chanaka Welegedara, have played 27 Tests among them, sharing 68 wickets with only one five-for (Thushara). [...]
Sri Lanka are hungry and prepared for a win in India. Kumar Sangakkara looks ahead to what his side will need to do Steve Waugh’s Australians of 2000-01 deemed winning a Test series in India as the “final frontier” because it had been three decades since they had last won in that country. For the [...]
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara is looking forward to an improved performance from his team in a crucial Champions Trophy match against New Zealand here on Sunday. Sri Lanka’s batting display against England on a lively track here on Friday left a lot to be desired as they could make just 212 before losing by [...]
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara commended the noble sportsmanship exhibited by England captain Andrew Strauss in recalling Angelo Mathews after the Sri Lankan all rounder was run out under somewhat controversial circumstances in the Champions Trophy game at Wanderers on Friday. “I thought this was an excellent gesture of sportsmanship and was in the spirit [...]
Kumar Sangakkara doesn’t strike you as the kind of man who leaves much to chance. In most things he does, there is method. Even his batting, pretty as some of it is, is thoughtfully constructed, bit by bit, run by run. He is neither flashy nor a grinder, but instead an accumulator, working on solid [...]
Some of the world’s best-known cricketers will appear in the latest ICC’s THINK WISE public service announcements, which have been released today ahead of the start of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 in South Africa. The campaign features messages and information to raise awareness about HIV which the organisers hope will make a positive impact [...]
Rare is the occasion that an assistant coach accompanies a captain to a post-match press conference, but the occasion called for it. Paul Farbrace, who worked with Sri Lanka for two years, had just completed his last assignment. At the presentation ceremony, Farbrace had been given a parting gift and a special mention. He received [...]
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka’s captain, is not out for revenge against India after the recent history the two teams have shared. Sri Lanka surrendered their last two home series to India but scored an emphatic victory on Saturday, one that left Sangakkara pleased at the way the team had shaped up. “I think you learn [...]
Sri Lanka — New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori is confident his team has the talent to compete with the likes of Sri Lanka and India in its upcoming test and limited overs series, saying the only thing his squad lacks is experience. ‘We have not played a lot of test cricket so our performances [...]
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