Lokuge Dinesh Chandimal (born November 18, 1989 in Balapitiya) is a Sri Lankan international cricketer who has played first class cricket for Ruhuna and Nondescripts Cricket Club. A right-hand batsman and wicket-keeper,^[1] he scored 64, four and 109 in his first three innings for the Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI.^[2][3] He is an aggressive batsman and keeper who also scored two centuries for his country's U-19s, which he vice-captained,^[4] and plays for the Sri Lanka Cricket XI and Schools Invitation XI for one day and Twenty20 cricket.^[1]

Dinesh Chandimal started his cricket career as a teenager at Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda. Later he moved to Ananda College, Colombo and captained Ananda College under-17 cricket team and proved his capabilities.

In 2008, he was appointed as 1st XI cricket captain of Ananda College and led his team to 13 outright wins in a season, which rewrote the history of Sri Lankan school cricket. Also he became the first schoolboy cricketer to break the 1,000 run mark with a total of 1,580 runs, which makes him one of the highest run getters in a school cricket season and won Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Award in 2009. Shortly after completing a prolific school season for Ananda he joined NCC cricket club.

He made his international debut during the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies, playing in Sri Lanka's group games against New Zealand and Zimbabwe in the initial group stage and then playing against Australia in the Super Eights.

After also playing against New Zealand in a Twenty20 match in Florida, Chandimal was selected for an ODI tri-series in Zimbabwe, where the two sides also played India. He made his debut against Zimbabwe, scoring an unbeaten 10 as his side cruised to a nine-wicket win and then registered his maiden international century by scoring 111 runs off 118 balls against India, an innings that helped his side both win the match (by six wickets) and knock India out of the tournament. He also became the youngest Sri Lankan to score an ODI century.

Chandimal made his Test debut for Sri Lanka in December 2011, in the second Test of the series against South Africa in Durban. On debut he made half-centuries (58 and 54) in each of Sri Lanka's innings.^[5]

During the 2012 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, he was bought for $50,000 by the Rajasthan Royals.^[6]

International Centuries[link]

ODI centuries[link]

Dinesh Chandimal's One Day International centuries
No	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	111	2	India	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2010
[2]	105*	6	England	London, England	Lord's Cricket Ground	2011

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Dinesh Chandimal from ESPNcricinfo

v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists 1 Sangakkara (c) 2 Chandimal 3 Dilshan 4 Jayasinghe 5 Jayasuriya 6 Jayawardene 7 Kapugedera 8 Kulasekara 9 Malinga 10 Mathews 11 Mendis 12 Muralitharan 13 Perera 14 Randiv 15 Welegedara Coach: Bayliss

Hettige Don Rumesh Lahiru Thirimanne (known as Lahiru Thirimanne) (born 8 August 1989) is a Sri Lankan international cricketer. A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he made his One Day International (ODI) debut in early 2010.^[1] He made his Test debut against England at the Rose Bowl in June 2011,^[2] coming into the side for the injured Tillakaratne Dilshan.^[3] In his first Test innings, he was dismissed for 10 runs caught behind off the bowling of James Anderson.^[4]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Lahiru Thirimanne from CricketArchive
• Player profile: Lahiru Thirimanne from ESPNcricinfo

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Kumar Sangakkara
කුමාර සංගක්කාර

Personal information
Full name	Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara
Born	(1977-10-27) 27 October 1977 (age 34) Matale, Sri Lanka
Nickname	Sanga
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Role	Wicket-keeper, batsman
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 84)	20 July 2000 v South Africa
Last Test	29 March 2012 v England
ODI debut (cap 93)	5 July 2000 v Pakistan
Last ODI	20 March 2012 v Bangladesh
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1997–present	Nondescripts
2008–2010	Kings XI Punjab
2007	Warwickshire
2011–present	Deccan Chargers
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	107	325	195	421
Runs scored	9,361	10,472	13,950	14,233
Batting average	55.39	38.21	47.93	39.98
100s/50s	28/38	13/71	37/62	21/92
Top score	287	138*	287	156*
Balls bowled	78	–	204	–
Wickets	–	–	1	–
Bowling average	–	–	112.00	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–	–
Best bowling	–	–	1/13	–
Catches/stumpings	167/20	315/80	328/33	417/105
Source: Cricinfo, 29 March 2012

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara ^[1] (Sinhala: කුමාර් සංගක්කාර), or Kumar Sangakkara (born 27 October 1977, Matale, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman. He used to play as a wicket-keeper and top-order batsman in all forms of the game, but has stopped keeping wicket in Tests as his batting average is significantly higher in Tests when he plays as a pure batsman.

Sangakkara began his career as a batsman but subsequently became a wicket-keeper. His batting has developed to such an extent that he once topped the LG ICC Test batting rankings. However, in 2006 he handed over wicket-keeping duties to Prasanna Jayawardene in Tests and has since played as a specialist batsman. He remains Sri Lanka's wicket-keeper in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket. He captained the national team from 2009 to 2011, stepping down after the 2011 World Cup.

He has been ranked as the number 1 Test batsman in the world several times during his career.^[2] Sangakkara (8) is third in the list of Test double century-makers, behind Donald Bradman (12) and Brian Lara (9). He scored his eighth double ton in Test cricket on 21 October 2011 against Pakistan.^[3]

Early life[link]

Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara was born to Kumari and Chokshanada Sangakkara at Matale in 1977. Sangakkara received his primary and secondary education at Trinity College, Kandy, a private boys' school. He played both cricket and tennis at school and the school's principal, Leonard de Alwis, advised his mother he should concentrate on cricket.^[4]

International career[link]

Early career[link]

At the age of 22 Sangakkara made his Test debut on 20 July 2000, keeping wicket in the first fixture of a three-match series against South Africa. Sri Lanka won the match and in his side's only innings Sangakarra batted at the fall of the third wicket and scored 23 runs before he was dismissed leg before wicket by spin bowler Nico Boje.^[5] Before reaching his first Test century, he was twice dismissed in the 90s, once against each of South Africa and England. In August 2001, India toured Sri Lanka for three Tests and in the opening match Sangakkara scored his first century.^[6] His innings of 105 not out at number three helped set up a ten-wicket victory for Sri Lanka.^[7] Later that year Sangakkara scored his second Test century, this time in the first of three matches against the touring West Indians.^[8]

Vice-captain[link]

When Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in February 2006 regular captain Marvan Atapattu was injured and Mahela Jayawardene became captain while Sangakarra was made vice-captain.^[9] Pakistan toured Sri Lanka for two Test and three ODIs in March 2006, and with Atapattu still injured Jayawardene and Sangakkara remained captain and vice-captain respectively.^[10] The pair had only expected to hold the positions on an interim basis, but extended into a third series as Atapattu failed to recover in time tour tour England in April and ended up filling the roles full time.^[11]

On 6 December 2007 he was named as the new Number 1 batsman in the LG ICC Test player rankings with a rating of 938, the highest rating ever achieved by a Sri Lankan player, and became the first batsman ever to score in excess of 150 in four consecutive tests.^[12] His skill was recognised worldwide when he earned selection for the ICC World XI One Day International team that competed against Australia in the Johnnie Walker Series in October 2005. Despite the World XI losing all of the one-day games by considerable margins, Sangakkara left the series with some credit, averaging 46.

Sangakkara holds the record for fastest 8,000 runs (152 innings) in Test cricket. He broke the previous record set by Sachin Tendulkar (154 innings) during the third Test against India on 6 August 2010. He also holds the record for fastest 9,000 runs (172 innings) in Test cricket. He broke the previous record set by Rahul Dravid (176 innings) during the second Test against Pakistan on 3 November 2011.^[13]

Sangakkara was billed as a future captain of Sri Lanka.^[14][15] On Sri Lanka's tour to England in May 2006, he was named the vice-captain of the side.

On 3 March 2009, a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team convoy in Pakistan injured several players, including Sangakkara, and also injuring six other people in the convoy. After this incident ICC resolved to never host matches in Pakistan.

Captaincy[link]

At the age of 31 and with the experience of 80 Tests and 246 ODIs, succeeded Jayawardene as Sri Lanka's captain in all formats. His first engagement in the role was the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 hosted by England in June.^[19]

A month in advance of the 2011 World Cup in March, Sangakkara decided that he would resign the captaincy after the tournament.^[20] Sri Lanka reached the final of the tournament.^[21] Throughout the tournament Sangakkara was in prolific form with the bat scoring 465 runs from 9 matches and was the third highest run scorer behind team-mate Tillakaratne Dilshan and India's Sachin Tendulkar. Days after guiding Sri Lanka to the finals of the World Cup, Sangakkara announced to the public he was stepping down as captain of the T20 and ODI teams. He offered to continue as Test captain if deemed necessary for transition to new skipper;^[22] in the event Dilshan was appointed captain across all formats.^[23] Reflecting on the decision afterwards"captaining Sri Lanka is a job that ages you very quickly ... It's rarely a job you will last long in ... I also had a two-year stint, and I enjoyed it at times, certainly on the field where our results showed we were one of the top two sides in the world for one-and-a-half years, especially in the shorter form of the game."^[20]

Post-captaincy[link]

Sangakkara (right) resigned the captaincy after the 2011 World Cup and was succeeded by Tillakaratne Dilshan (left).

Sri Lanka's first fixture after the World Cup was a tour of England beginning in May. During the second match of a three Test series Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sangakkara's successor as captain, suffered a broken thumb. Sangakkara filled-in while Dilshan was off the pitch and formally assumed the captaincy for the final Test.^[24][25] The match ended in a draw and the series ended in a 1–0 victory for England; Sangakarra scored a century in the match, his first against England in nine Tests.^[26]

Kumar Sangakkara delivered the 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lords.^[27] In 2012 he was named one of Wisden's five Cricketer's of the Year.^[28]

Domestic cricket[link]

Sangakkara plays his domestic cricket for Nondescripts in Sri Lanka. Sangakkara has played English county cricket with Warwickshire in the 2007 County Championship. In 2010 Sangakkara was contracted to represent Lancashire in the 2010 County Championship,^[29] but never represented the club because of international commitments.^[30]

Personal life[link]

He is the youngest of four siblings and has a brother and two sisters one of whom is a sportswoman herself – a keen Tennis player. Sangakkara is married to his longtime partner, Yehali [2] and is currently a law undergraduate at the Sri Lanka Law College, following in the footsteps of his father, who is also a leading lawyer in Kandy.

On 30 June 2009 Sangakkara's wife gave birth to twins, a girl and boy.^[31]

Playing style[link]

Sangakkara likes to hit the ball square of the wicket on the off-side and upon making a century consistently continues on past 150. Sangakkara has won a certain degree of admiration for his clever use of sledging and is one of few cricketers who are willing to talk about it openly. In an interview in 2004 he explained his approach to sledging:

The public perception of sledging is to go out there and abuse someone in obscene language, questioning their parentage or sexual preferences. That kind of abuse does not belong on the field of play. Sledging, as coined and pioneered by the Australians, is a measured comment designed to get a reaction out of a player. It could be any reaction: a bit of anger, a show of arrogance, a comment, a shake of the head, or a slump of the shoulders.

—Kumar Sangakarra in 2004^[32]

Player statistics[link]

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Sangakkara's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

Test performance against each opponent[link]

As of 2 April 2012:

Opponent	Matches	Innings	Not out	Runs	High Score	100	50	Average
Australia	9	17	0	726	192	1	5	42.70
Bangladesh	11	14	2	876	222*	2	5	73.00
England	19	34	1	1,205	152	2	6	36.52
India	15	24	2	1,257	219	5	2	57.13
New Zealand	8	14	3	651	156*	3	2	59.18
Pakistan	13	25	2	1,830	230	7	7	79.56
South Africa	15	28	0	1,362	287	3	5	48.46
West Indies	12	19	2	918	157*	3	5	54.00
Zimbabwe	5	6	0	536	270	2	1	89.33
TOTAL	107	181	12	9,361	287	28	38	55.39

Test centuries[link]

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Kumar Sangakkara.

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Kumar Sangakkara's Test centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	105*	10	India	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2001
[2]	140	14	West Indies	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2001
[3]	128	17	Zimbabwe	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2002
[4]	230	20	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	2002
[5]	270	38	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club	2004
[6]	232	42	South Africa	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2004
[7]	138	44	Pakistan	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2004
[8]	157	48	West Indies	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2005
[9]	185	56	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2006
[10]	287	61	South Africa	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2006
[11]	100*	63	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand	Jade Stadium	2006
[12]	156*	64	New Zealand	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2006
[13]	200*	66	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P. Saravanamuttu Stadium	2007
[14]	222*	67	Bangladesh	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2007
[15]	192	68	Australia	Hobart, Australia	Bellerive Oval	2007
[16]	152	69	England	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2007
[17]	144	76	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P. Sarawanamuttu stadium	2008
[18]	104	80	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi stadium	2009
[19]	130*	83	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2009
[20]	109	85	New Zealand	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2009
[21]	137	88	India	Mumbai, India	Brabourne Stadium	2009
[22]	103	89	India	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2010
[23]	219	90	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club	2010
[24]	150	93	West Indies	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	2010
[25]	119	97	England	Southampton, England	Rose Bowl	2011
[26]	211	101	Pakistan	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	Sheikh Zayed Stadium	2011
[27]	144	103	Pakistan	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	2011
[28]	108	105	South Africa	Durban, South Africa	Kingsmead Cricket Ground	2011

One Day International centuries[link]

Kumar Sangakkara's ODI centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	100*	86	Pakistan	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Sharjah Stadium	2003
[2]	103*	87	Kenya	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah C.A. Stadium	2003
[3]	101	100	Australia	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	2004
[4]	138*	141	India	Jaipur, India	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	2005
[6]	110	183	India	Rajkot, India	Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	2007
[7]	128	213	India	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	2008
[8]	101	221	Bangladesh	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	2008
[9]	112	222	Pakistan	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2008
[10]	121	223	Bangladesh	Karachi, Pakistan	National stadium	2008
[11]	111	288	New Zealand	Mumbai, India	Wankhede Stadium	2011
[12]	102	311	South Africa	Johannesburg, South Africa	New Wanderers Stadium	2012
[13]	105	318	India	Hobart, Australia	Bellerive Oval	2012

Product and brand endorsements[link]

• Viva malted milk by GlaxoSmithKline: 2006 – present^[33]
• Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited: 2007–2008^[34]
• Nations Trust Bank: 2008 – present^[35]
• Coca Cola: 2008 – present^[36]
• DIMO: 2008 – present^[37]
• IYOR: 2008^[38]

See also[link]

• 100 Runs Test Cricket Partnerships by Sri Lanka

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Player profile: Kumar Sangakkara from ESPNcricinfo

v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup Semi-Finalists 1 Jayasuriya (c) 2 Atapattu 3 Jayawardene 4 Sangakkara (wk) 5 De Silva 6 Arnold 7 Mubarak 8 Tillakaratne 9 Muralitharan 10 Vaas 11 Fernando 12 Gunaratne 13 Gunawardene 14 Nissanka 15 Buddhika Coach: Whatmore

v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2007 Cricket World Cup Runners-Up 1 Jayawardene (c) 2 Atapattu 3 Jayasuriya 4 Tharanga 5 Sangakkara 6 Dilshan 7 Arnold 8 Silva 9 Maharoof 10 Vaas 11 Fernando 12 Malinga 13 Kulasekara 14 Muralitharan 15 Bandara Coach: Moody

v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2007 ICC World Twenty20 1 Jayawardene (c) 2 Dilshan 3 D Fernando 4 H Fernando 5 Jayasuriya 6 Lokuarachchi 7 Maharoof 8 Malinga 9 Mubarak 10 Perera 11 Sangakkara 12 Silva 13 Tharanga 14 Vaas 15 Wijekoon Muttiah Muralitharan was named in the original squad but injuries led to him being withdrawn. Dilruwan Perera was sent as his replacement.