Sangakkara voted best player of the week

Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has been voted Player of the Week by BBC readers.

Sangakkara secured 45 percent of the votes ahead of Marcus Trescothick (20 percent), Jamie Porter (19 percent) and Moeen Ali (16 percent). BBC invited readers to vote who they thought was the best player in the third round of the County championship and they voted for Sangakkara who scored 242 runs (171 and 71) in Surrey’s county match against Somerset.