Cricket: Wisden honour for Sri Lanka with double large Kumar Sangakkara

Published on Thursday, April 12, 2012 the most

Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara became the first person to be called at the same time as the Wisden cricketer Leadinng in the world and one of the five cricketers of the year,.

The elegant left-handed compiled 2.129 runs in three international formats last year - no other player broke 2,000 - with five and 13 of fifties, with the table and reached four figures in tests and one-day internationals for the third time.

Century probably his final test on English soil in guarantee while he was accepted the cricketers of the year, the award, awarded by the publication editor - a coat of one this year by Lawrence booth-the practice that most influenced the English Cricket summer, and a player can only won once.

"I had always a test with Lord United hundred but, if not to be, then expressions anywhere in England Sangakkara told David Hopps" published today in the almanack. "The Rose Bowl Stadium as it felt to l would be my last chance."

Sangakkara also was praised for its prices of MCC spirit of cricket Cowdrey lecture, partially reprinted in: Wisden in which he cricket faced the level of government interference in his country.

Join the 34-year-old as cricketers of the year are fellow veterans Glen Chapple, Lancashires title-winning captain and talisman and Worcestershire Seamer Alan "," the wicket-taker in Leadinng Division, one of the last season of LV = County was formed with 73.

England pair, the Alastair Cook, 83 in addition to his return to the international a day side as captain and Tim Bresnan, of 21 wickets in 28, the test scored 189 runs at 63 and profit of ten tests - summer with 100 percent had ended, will be concluded at an average 3 v.s.o.p. running test-quintet.

"" Said: "World class cricketer along recognized as such as Alastair Cook, Tim Bresnan, Glen Chapple and Kumar Sangakkara is a real honor."

Used elsewhere in the almanack, as his first comments that a wide range of subjects, which most continued to address in particular the global shift of focus towards Twenty20 cricket and the role of the Board of control for cricket in India in the governance of the World game.

Description T20 as a Pandora s Box "disguised as panacea","outside AD DS booth: England Test match increasingly resembling the quiet zone of the world cricket gravy: respected in theory, in practice ignored."

"The real damage is done by the prevalence of the two-match series." "For each series not with Zimbabwe and Bangladesh must be three tests at least."

About BCCI, makes stand - the youngest Wisden editor in 72 years-writes: "India have ended up with a special gift: the power to make an entire sport." But all too often their game seems driven by the interests of the few. Other countries run that game along the lines to even serve, but no exercise that makes BCCI's-their shares and superlatives. "