'Sanga' as he is known to his team-mates, is one of cricket's most endearing personalities both on and off the field and Sri Lankan Cricket would be pleased to have nurtured him into one of the best cricketers of the nation. Sanga has amazing levels of concentration and is known to score big once he reaches a hundred. Most runs in Year 2014 – 1256 runs in 28 matches with 4 hundreds and 8 fifties with the average 46.51. In 2010 Sangakkara was contracted to represent Lancashire in the 2010 County Championship,[113] but never represented the club because of international commitments. The committee was tasked to select the Sri Lankan squad for 2016 ICC World Twenty20 tournament, as Sri Lanka suffered heavy defeats in recent times with the previous squad. While the cut and the pull are natural strokes for him, he tends to play off the front foot. He is ninth in the list. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. [66], Sri Lanka's first fixture after the World Cup was a Sri Lanka tour of England in 2011 beginning in May. In the Sri Lanka Premier League which officially started in 2012, Sangakkara was named the captain and icon player of the Kandurata Warriors franchise. After the match, he said that he is willing to see the comeback of English batsman Kevin Pietersen to the international cricket.[122][123]. [125] becoming only the eighth player to achieve this feat. Then in December 2014, he announced that he would also retire from ODI cricket after the 2015 Cricket World Cup, again with Mahela. [20] Kumar Sangakkara has now become the first non-British President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), with effect from 1 October 2019 for a period of one year. On the Sri Lankan tour of Bangladesh in 2014, Sangakkara hit his highest test score to date with 319 in the first innings of the second test.

He was the captain of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team. He made 516 runs in the 3 match series which was won by Pakistan 1–0. In the three T20 matches, he scored 153 runs, more than any other cricketer in the series, and included one fifty. Holder scored 192 runs at a strike rate of 140.14, and also picked up ten wickets at an economy rate of 6.63.

On 3 March 2009, a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team convoy in Pakistan injured 6 Sri Lankan players including Sangakkara. [5] At retirement, he was the second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket and sixth-highest run scorer in Test cricket. In Bravo’s absence, Englishman Sam Curran has been performing the overseas allrounder's job well, for the moment. On the other hand, Kumar Sangakkara, the former Sri Lankan cricketer, and the captain has made everyone amazed with his astonishing batting skills. West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo is expected to make his debut for Indian Premier League (IPL) team Chennai Super Kings by its fourth match, despite being declared fit enough to play.