Kumar Sangakkara - The Sri Lankan Powerhouse: ICC World Cup 2011
Kumar Sangakkara was born on October 27, 1977 at Matale, Sri Lanka. He has been a great ambassador for Sri Lankan cricket since he came into the Sri Lanka’s side at the age of 22. Sangakkara has travelled a long way to the captaincy of Sri Lankan. He had been vice-captain since 2006 and took charge of the team in 2009 from Mahela Jayawarden. Sri Lanka’s captain is fulfilling his responsibility of powerhouse leader in the Sri Lanka’s cricket team. He has always shown the highest leadership ability during his tenure as a capitain.
Sangakkara leads his team from the front. He has sense of maturity and calmness that keeps him at his best and optimistic no matter the situation. Sangakkara brought more energy and discipline in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758’s unit by keeping close contacts with every single member of his side. This great inspirational icon of Sri Lankan cricket possesses phenomenal decision making skills to execute his plans according to situation and requirement of the game.
As a captain, he has done an admirable job. Under his captaincy, Sri Lanka has played 36 one day international matches.
Kumar Sangakkara’s Captaincy stats in ODIs
Matches
Wins
Losses
No Result
Win%
43
26
13
4
60.46 (approximately)
Sri Lanka has won 26 matches out of 43 which Sangakkara captained. In cricket the aspect of luck is acknowledged and accepted by many around the world. Sangakkara is the luckiest in term of winning toss (60.61% approximately) among all the captains who are leading their teams in ICC World Cup 2011.
Sri Lanka won 3 ODI tournaments and lost only one tournament in 2010, under Sangakkara captaincy in 2010. Sangakkara has given great joy to cricketing fans in Sri Lanka, as they celebrated Sri Lanka's wonderful form last year. The lions won every series played under him in 2010, excluding Asia Cup, where they dominated during group matches before reaching in the final. Sangakkara also had the credit of winning first ever series against Aussies for Sri Lanka. The way this talented team performed against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 was truly tremendous. This wining ratio showed the standard and quality of his leadership.
Apart from captaincy Sangakkara merges the role of granite middle order batsmen and dependable wicketkeeper in Sri Lanka’s team. He is elegant in his own way, as he controls his inning according to the situation. This high quality player has played 289 ODI’s and has made 9062 runs with the average of 37.91.
Sri Lanka’s leader is one of the biggest match winners in the Sri Lanka’s team. He is an absolutely classic batsman with an immense zeal for scoring runs. This magnificent batsman is capable of playing strokes all around the ground. He can shatter any bowling attack on given day. Sangakkara is an experienced ODI player which makes him Sri Lanka’s real strength.
Before the start of the ICC World Cup 2011, during the photo-shoot and press conference of all 14 captains in Dhaka, Sri Lanka's captain said; "One has to do better than all teams to win the tournament.” He also added; "The format is such that if you make the quarter-finals, you need to play great in two matches to reach a World Cup final."
Sangakkara’s statement has proven the positivity of his calculative approach, as Sri Lanka has performed marvelously and reached in the semi final of the World Cup. The captain of the Sri Lankan side has contributed immensely in team’s triumph, as he has made 363 runs in 7 matches. He has scored 1 century and 2 fifties.
He is leading the team productively in the mega event. Sri Lankan team is going to play the semi final against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820.
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