I feel honoured to have surpassed Sir Don Bradman’s record, feels http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 – Cricket News Update
Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan batsman, is ecstatic to have surpassed Sir Donald Bradman’s record of 29 Test hundreds, but admitted that he can never match the class of the great Australian cricketer.
At stumps on the fourth day of the second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, at Colombo, the former Islanders’ captain was unbeaten on 144 runs and looked set for much more on the last day of the match.
This is Sangakkara’s 30th hundred in Test cricket, to go with his 13 One Day International centuries. With more than 20 thousand runs at the highest stage of the sport, the former Lankan captain is considered to be one
of the modern greats.
However, Bradman is unquestionably the greatest batsman to have ever played the game as no one else comes even close to the former Australian skipper's stats. The right-hander scored almost seven thousand runs in the 52 Tests he played
for the Kangaroos, with an astonishing average of 99.94 runs per innings.
Sangakkara thinks that Bradman would have piled up a lot more hundreds if he had played more matches, but unfortunately, as much cricket was not played those days.
The top-order batsman was extremely satisfied after scoring 30 Test centuries, as only ten batsman in the history of the game have 30 or more hundreds in the five-day format.
"I have played a lot more Test matches than he has [110 Tests to 52]. If he had played the amount that I have, there would have been no chance of catching him. But it's a great honour to get to 30 hundreds. It is something that I
had always set myself when I started playing cricket and when I started getting hundreds. Thirty is a solid mark for a batsman," he expressed.
While talking about the on-going Colombo Test, the great batsman is hopeful about avoiding defeat and making sure that his team maintains a lead in the series.
Sangakkara said, "Tomorrow, if we bat a session that's going to be a solid effort from us. We need to get another 74 runs to avoid the follow-on."
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