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Kumar Sangakara , who turns 38 in October, will end his 15-year international cricket career after the second Test against India which starts at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Thursday.
The left-hander, who is Test cricket’s leading run-getter among those still playing, said looking at the young teams in Sri Lanka and his English county Surrey made him realise it was time to go.
"The rest are mostly 26, I feel like a dinosaur in their company.It convinced me this was the right time to go,” said Sangakkara.
Sanga scored 12,400 runs in 134 test matches at an average of 57.40 . He's the fifth-higest run scorer in history of Test cricket. He scored 38 hundreds n 52 fifties.
The left-hander, who is Test cricket’s leading run-getter among those still playing, said looking at the young teams in Sri Lanka and his English county Surrey made him realise it was time to go.
"The rest are mostly 26, I feel like a dinosaur in their company.It convinced me this was the right time to go,” said Sangakkara.
Sanga scored 12,400 runs in 134 test matches at an average of 57.40 . He's the fifth-higest run scorer in history of Test cricket. He scored 38 hundreds n 52 fifties.