Kumar “Sanga" Chokshanada Sangakkara born 27 October 1977 is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan national team. Widely regarded as one of the world's most influential cricketers,[1][2] Sangakkara rated as the Greatest ODI batsman of all time in a recent public poll. He is also regarded as one of Sri Lanka's legendary match-winners and one of the best batsmen to ever played the game for Sri Lanka. 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.[1][3][4][5][6][7] He is second to Tendulkar in terms of most international runs with 28,016.
