Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara addresses a media during a Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in December, 2010. Sri Lanka cannot ask for some-more of Sangakkara who performs a three times purpose – in vogue batsman, protected wicket-keeper as great as intelligent captain.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – Sri Lanka cannot ask for some-more of Kumar Sangakkara who performs a three times purpose – in vogue batsman, protected wicket-keeper as great as intelligent captain.
The left-hander additionally knows which he as great as his side will need to be during their most appropriate in all departments in a World Cup if he aims to obey Arjuna Ranatunga or go a single step over his prototype Mahela Jayawardene.
Ranatunga sparked furious celebrations in a nation when he led Sri Lanka to their usually World Cup delight in 1996, opposite Mark Taylor’s Australians during Lahore.
He played a poignant purpose in becoming different a face of Sri Lankan cricket with his bold, as great as infrequently confrontational, leadership.
Jayawardene lifted visions of we do a Ranatunga when he led his side to a last of a 2007 World Cup in a Caribbean, though had to be calm with a runners-up finish opposite Ricky Ponting’s Australians.
He led from a front as he emerged a tournament’s second-highest scorer with 548 runs, together with a consequential century in a semi-final opposite New Zealand in Kingston.
Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara bats in a nets during a precision event in Guyana in May, 2010. Sri Lanka cannot ask for some-more of Sangakkara who performs a three times purpose – in vogue batsman, protected wicket-keeper as great as intelligent captain.
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Like Jayawardene, Sangakkara does not crop up to be as assertive as Ranatunga, though is second to nothing when it comes to celebration of a mass a compare incident as great as exploiting a opposition’s shortcomings.
The success of Australian Adam Gilchrist, India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni as great as New Zealander Brendon McCullum showed which a day of pristine wicket-keepers were over in one-day cricket.
Sangakkara additionally belongs to a ‘wicketkeeper-batsman’ club, giving his side some-more options. He can additionally reason his place in a group quite as a batsman, for he has a technique as great as spirit to fool around a prolonged innings.
Named one-day captain in 2009, Sangakkara showed Sri Lankan cricket was upon right lane when his side kick four-time World Cup winners Australia to bind their lass one-day array Down Under.
“There’s a lot to be taken out of a approach we played these games. We played a approach we believed we could entrance here,” Sangakkara pronounced after his team’s array win.
“This is a theatre we regularly longed for to get to where everybody does what is asked of him as great as we can’t ask any some-more of a players. They have grown in status as great as self-belief.
“Sri Lankan cricket seems to be in unequivocally great hands starting forward.”
The feat came during a right time for Sri Lanka, perplexing to find match-winners in a deficiency of hard-hitting batsman Sanath Jayasuriya as great as quick bowler Chaminda Vaas.
Sri Lanka left a maestro twin out of a 15-man patrol for a World Cup, though demeanour dynamic to set up upon a delight in Australia.
Sangakkara, who has not been gripping wicket of late in Tests, is an tasteful batsman to watch as great as can conform himself to all forms of a game.
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