Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara will play his 100th test in Colombo from Friday and Sangakkara is hoping celebrate his 100th Test with a series-levelling victory over Australia in the final test match against Australia. Sri Lanka is 1 – 0 down to Australia in 3 match test series.
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The left handed batsmen said that it is a great honour to have represented for country for a period of time, and also a great honour to play 100 Test matches. He also added that it is not often that a player gets that opportunity and he is very, very proud and also very privileged for the opportunity to represent his country for so long.
Sangakkara, will celebrate his 34th birthday next month, will be the fifth Sri Lankan to play a century of Tests after Muttiah Muralitharan (132), Mahela Jayawardene (121), Chaminda Vaas (111) and Sanath Jayasuriya (110). Sangakkara made his test debut against South Africa in Galle in 2000 and scored 8,572 runs in 99 Tests at an average of 55.66 with 25 – 100’s. He is the second highest run getter for Sri Lanka behind Jayawardene with 9,801 runs from 121 matches.
Sangakkara said that his goal was to compile 10,000 Test runs and score 30 centuries before he gets retired and insisted that retirement is far away from his mind.
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