Sanga’s world batting record

S. M. Jiffrey Abdeen
Kandy sports corr.

Another world record was eclipsed at the Asgiriya stadium in Kandy on Tuesday when Sri Lanka’s star batsman Kumar Sangakkara became the first cricketer in the history of Test cricket to score four scores of over 150 in four consecutive test matches when he achieved this feat on the fourth day of the first cricket Test against England.

Sangakkara scored two double centuries against Bangladesh a couple of months ago and then last month after missing the first Test, scored 192 against Australia at Hobart.

He scored 157 in the second innings of the current Test match. Thus scoring four scores of over 150 runs in four successive Test matches.

The earlier record of scoring scores of over 150 runs in three successive tests was jointly held by the legendary Australian Sir Donald Bradman, Englishman Walter Hammond and Pakistani Mudassar Nazar.

But Kumar Sangakkara did one better by scoring scores over 150 in four successive innings.

Two of them being double centuries and would have scored another if not for the unfortunate way he was ruled out when he was on 192.

This Test match was a great one for Kandy’s two cricketers Muttiah Muralitharan an old boy of St. Anthony’s College and Kumar Sangakkara a product of Trinity College.

Both set up new world records in their own way. Both cricketers at one time or other were coached by Sunil Fernando.