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Kumar “Sanga" Chokshanada Sangakkara ((シンハラ語:කුමාර සංගක්කාර); born 27 October 1977) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan national team. He is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential cricketers. He 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.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The case for Kumar Sangakkara's all-time greatness - Cricket - ESPN Cricinfo )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=De Villiers v Sangakkara; the two best batsman in the World? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kumar Sangakkara is a modern Test great who never gets his due )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The best batsman since Bradman )〕 He is second to Sachin Tendulkar for most international runs with 28,016. A left-handed top-order batsman, he is also a record-breaking wicket-keeper, although he no longer keeps wickets at Test level. Currently, he is the second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket and the fifth-highest run scorer in Test cricket.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batting records - One-Day Internationals - Cricinfo Statsguru - ESPN Cricinfo )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batting records - Test matches - Cricinfo Statsguru - ESPN Cricinfo )〕 Sangakkara is described as one of the "most polished and prudent of batsmen" in cricket. Along with AB de Villiers, he has dominated the number one spot in the ICC Test batting rankings over the past decade. On 12 August 2015, Sangakkara was placed at number 5 in the ICC Test rankings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mens Test - Player Rankings - Live Cricket Scores & News - International Cricket Council (ICC) )〕 Sangakkara was a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20. He won the Man of the Match award in the final of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, where he helped the team win their first title. He was the youngest person and the first active international player to deliver Crowdrey lecture, which was widely praised by the cricketing community for its outspoken nature.〔〔 In terms of number of innings required, Sangakkara is the fastest batsman to reach 8,000, 9,000, 11,000 and 12,000 runs in Test cricket. He is also joint fastest to 10,000. He won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012, Test Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and ODI Cricketer of the Year multiple times in 2011 and 2013. He has also won the LG People's Choice Award twice, in 2011 and 2012. Sangakkara has regularly featured in the World Test XI and World ODI XI, appearing six times and three times in them, respectively. He was selected as Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2015 edition of Wisden. He was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2011 and 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wisden’s Leading Cricketer of the Year 2015: Kumar Sangakkara )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wisden includes Moeen Ali and Gary Ballance in its cricketers of the year )〕 He is one of two players to have won this award twice, along with Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who won the award in 2008 and 2009. On 29 January 2015, Sangakkara became Sri Lanka's highest ever ODI run scorer, surpassing the previous record of 13430 runs held by Sanath Jayasuriya. In the same match, he also broke the record for ODI wicketkeeping dismissals, breaking the previous record of 472 held by Adam Gilchrist. ==Early life== Sangakkara was born to Kumari Surangana and Swarnakumara Sangakkara, an attorney-at-law at Matale, Sri Lanka in 1977.〔 His parents settled in Kandy, where he grew up in his childhood. Sangakkara received his primary and secondary education at Trinity College, Kandy, an independent elite private boys' school situated in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. He has two sisters: Thushari and Saranga, and an elder brother: Vemindra, all who have made national level achievements during their school-life. Sangakkara too started playing a number of sports: badminton, tennis, swimming, table tennis and cricket at the junior school. He was able to win national colours for badminton and tennis at his younger age. The then principal of the Trinity College, Leonard de Alwis, advised his mother to encourage Sangakkara to concentrate on cricket. His parents hid Tamil families during the Black July riots in 1983. He represented his school's under-13 cricket XI under coach Upananda Jayasundera.〔 Berty Wijesinghe coached Sangakkara for under-15, under-17, under-19 and first XI squads. He was awarded The Trinity Lion, the most prestigious prize awarded to a Trinity sportsman, for his exceptional batting and wicket-keeping skills in the 1996 season, at the age of 19. Sangakkara was selected to represent Sri Lanka A cricket team at a tour to South Africa in 1998–99. His knock of unbeaten 156 against Zimbabwe A team at a one-day match, helped him secure a place at the Sri Lankan national cricket team later that year. ''Sanga'' was the Senior Prefect (Head Boy) of school, he did his Advanced Level examination in the Arts stream in 1996. He was also awarded the highest honour of Trinity College, the Ryde Gold Medal, for the best all-round student in his year. Following his father, who is a lawyer in Kandy, he entered the Law Faculty of the University of Colombo, but was unable to finish his degree due to cricket tours. Sangakkara was a chorister and played the violin during his school-days. He was cited as an inspiration to continue his higher education by Bangladeshi captain Mushfiqur Rahim, upon receiving his master's degree: It is appreciated that someone like Sangakkara's sports personality is shaped by his education. He is obviously an inspiration. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kumar Sangakkara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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