Sangakkara Wisden Cricketer of the year
Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has been named the cricketer of the
year in the 2015 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
Sangakkara joined India’s Virender Sehwag as the only two players to
be named as Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for a second
occasion.
The 37-year-old left-hand batsman and wicketkeeper won the award
after a stellar 2014 that saw him score an all-time record 2,868
international runs in the calendar year, including a triple century.
His feats, which added to an already brilliant career, included a
man-of-the-match performance in Sri Lanka’s World Twenty20 final win
over India last year. Sangakkara also scored his first Test hundred at
Lord’s last season, a century that came during Sri Lanka’s Test series
win over England. He later confirmed Wisden’s judgment by scoring a
record four successive hundreds at the recent World Cup in Australia and
New Zealand.
Wisden’s awarding of five cricketers of the year dates back to 1889
and is generally based on a player’s performances in the preceding
English season.
By tradition, it can only be won once in a career and the 2015 list
included Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, England rising stars Moeen
Ali and Gary Ballance and two notable county players in Adam Lyth and
Jeetan Patel.
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