{"id":425,"date":"2008-03-30T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:50:51","slug":"kumar-sangakkara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/players\/sri-lanka\/kumar-sangakkara.html","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Sangakkara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth:<\/strong> October 27, 1977<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place of Birth:<\/strong> Kandy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batting Style<\/strong>: Left Handed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bowling Style:<\/strong> Right Arm Off Break<\/p>\n<p><strong>ODI Debut: J<\/strong>uly 5, 2000 v Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Debut:<\/strong> July 20, 2000 v South Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>T20 Debut:<\/strong> June 15, 2006 v England<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TESTs<\/li>\n<li>ODIs<\/li>\n<li>T20s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kumar Sangakkara is the most influential and talented cricketer in Sri Lankan cricket. Within few months of his international debut, the southpaw was the most talked about player in the cricket arena. He is a gifted strokemaker with plenty of class and caliber in him.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the stumps, he is a slick wicket-keeper and a sharp-tongued sledger. A charismatic personality and a smart thinker, Sangakkara is billed as the next skipper of Sri Lanka. In 2007, he became the first batsman ever to make single innings scores of a 150 plus in four consecutive test matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TESTs BATTING vs ALL TEAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"bluetable\" border=\"0\" width=\"566\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>M<\/th>\n<th>Inn<\/th>\n<th>No<\/th>\n<th>Runs<\/th>\n<th>HS<\/th>\n<th>100s<\/th>\n<th>50s<\/th>\n<th>Avg<\/th>\n<th>SR<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cb\">72<\/td>\n<td>118<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>6103<\/td>\n<td>287<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>55.99<\/td>\n<td>55.99<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>TESTs BOWLING vs ALL TEAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"bluetable\" border=\"0\" width=\"567\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>M<\/th>\n<th>Overs<\/th>\n<th>Runs<\/th>\n<th>Mdns<\/th>\n<th>Wkts<\/th>\n<th>Avg<\/th>\n<th>Best<\/th>\n<th>Econ<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cb\">72<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>0\/4<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara Country: Sri Lanka Date of Birth: October 27, 1977 Place of Birth: Kandy Batting Style: Left Handed Bowling Style:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cricketnirvana","author_link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/author\/cricketnirvana\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":10,"name":"Players","slug":"players","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":10,"category_count":87,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Players","category_nicename":"players","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":10,"label":"Players"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}