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My Childhood Hero Was Sir Vivian Richards, No Doubt About That. My Favourite Cricketer, However Is Brian Charles Lara. I Have Al Friday 16th September, 2011 15 BY REX CLEMENTINE team to win the Asian Test No regrets there. But it would have been it’s an amazing place and a beautiful Mohammad Sami, Waqar Younis and Championship. nice to go out and play another county ground and it’s the place where we have Abdul Razzaq. It was a quite nice green Not very many would have noticed season. It’s good even for young players. tasted some of our best victories. track at Lahore and starting to flatten n years to come, cricket historians that since his debut 11 years ago, The more we can expose younger players Question: You have converted seven out. Walking in, I had never faced Shoaib will note that Aravinda de Silva and Sangakkara has missed just one Test at 19, 20 or 21 to county cricket and those of your hundreds into double hun- in a Test Match before, which was proba- Itelevision completed the popularisa- conditions, playing with that much on bly good. I was nervous, but not intimi- Match that Sri Lanka have played, due to dreds. What has helped you to have tion of the sport in Sri Lanka which injury, and here he explains why prepara- your shoulders, players tend to mature such a good conversion rate? dated. It was nice to see Sanath on the Duleep Mendis and radio had begun. very fast. other side hitting Shoaib ball after ball to tion is important for success at the high- Sangakkara: The first hundred is However, for many middle aged Sri the boundary. It took a bit of pressure off est level. Question: How much of regret always the toughest. After the hundred, I Lankans, the great West Indian stars are me. I think I flicked one to get to my dou- Here are the excerpts. would it be if Kumar Sangakkara don’t even look at the scoreboard. I just their idols and Kumar Sangakkara is no ble hundred and I remember telling were to end his career without a Test bat. The only time I look at the score- exception. The 33-year-old who will Question: The purple patch you Mahela, ‘I think I have got a double hun- win against Australia? board is when I am close to 150. If I am become the 51st cricketer to play 100 Test enjoyed in Test cricket for two years, dred.’ Mahela was laughing. It was a kind Sangakkara: That will be one of my beyond 150, I try and get to that 200 by Matches and the fifth Sri Lankan to do so where you scored eight hundreds of one of those moments where every- biggest regrets. Everyone regards that being as attacking as I can. So those are tells ‘The Island’ here that his childhood including three double hundreds and thing went right. hero was a West Indian while his four scores of over 150 came soon the Australian team as the benchmark in the things I have always worked on. Get Question: It came in a winning favourite cricketer is also from the after your stint with Warwickshire. Test cricket. England have now started to the first hundred and just keep batting cause as well. Caribbean. What did that stint with the English doing well, but to beat Australia, forget and if you bat another session and a half, about beating them here —it’s great to or two sessions, you probably get to Sangakkara: It came in a winning Looking back at a career that began in county do to you? beat them here no doubt— but if you can touching distance to a double hundred. cause which was important. We were 2000, Sangakkara admits that it was a Sangakkara: When you are playing as go to Australia and beat them in a Test going through a patch where, I think our season of county cricket a few years ago an overseas professional, the responsibil- Question: In your entire career you Match, there’s nothing more satisfying. average first innings total for about 12 that made him the complete batsman he ity always is on you to score runs. They have missed just one Test Match. How Those are the challenges and dreams peo- Test Matches was 550. We need to find is and why he had to turn down an offer don’t look at anyone else. I was fortunate much of an importance do you give to ple must be chasing. Set those challenges, those big building blocks again where we from Lancashire two years ago. to score a hundred on debut for preparation? work towards them, get the players ready bring those first innings averages as Warwickshire. They don’t accord you Sangakkara: It’s the most important Of the current Sri Lankan Test squad, and get the right players in that combina- higher as we can because that’s what immediate respect just because you are thing really. Fitness, mental preparation, only Mahela Jayawardene has tasted a tion to try and do those things. Those are helps us to win Test Matches. an international player. They only confidence at training and testing your- Test win against Australia and here, going to be the challenges in the near respect you if you go out there and fit self at practices. I think our practice Question: The ECB has announced Sangakkara says that if he is unable to future. We have to be ready from now on. into the team environment really well methods have changed to the better for a the itinerary for their winter tours. beat the Australians in a Test Match, that While we keep an eye on this Test Match and if you are a contributing member to while now. We get the fast bowlers to be Are you surprised England will play would remain his biggest regret in crick- (starting on Friday, Sep. 16), we need to that team culture, and if you perform. I as attacking as they can be at the nets. only two Tests against Sri Lanka, but et. Some Trinitians - during the next Big plan ahead and plan for challenges was very fortunate to get my county cap Bounce you, try and hit you and try and three against Pakistan? Match - could call him a traitor as he says against South Africa and against for Warwickshire. That responsibility, get you out. So the batsmen are always Sangakkara: We don’t play enough that the old school ground at Asgiriya is England when they come here next year. that experience of playing on those wick- preparing themselves in a tough environ- Test Matches. We should play a minimum not his favourite. He also speaks on what Then India, they are our neighbours and ets was important for me. It’s unfortunate ment. The bowlers do the same. Apart of three Test Matches against each coun- has enabled him to convert hundreds into we have a good rivalry with them. They I couldn’t go to Lancashire two years from physical fitness, having casual chats try without a doubt. No use of playing double hundreds [only Sir Don Bradman have beaten us here and we should go and later. with players about the match and how two Test Matches. If the series is dead- (12) and Brian Lara (09) have scored more beat them there. double hundreds than Sangakkara (7)]. Question: What prevented you from you are doing to prepare; those things locked at one-all, there’s no chance of Question: Is your old school ground really help you. It also gets players con- winning the series. I don’t think you Of his seven double hundreds, the first going to Lancashire? your favourite cricket ground? tributing with a lot of new ideas as to should call two Test Matches even a one in 2002 in Lahore was special as he Sangakkara: Well, I asked the selec- Sangakkara: Asgiriya is sentimental- how they do things, especially when new series. A series should be three Test kept wickets and came out to face the sec- tors to bring in a rule to say that until the ly a great ground to play on because I players come in. It’s important that you Matches. ICC should probably take a look ond ball of the Sri Lankan innings after World Cup was over, no player was going grew up playing there. But the Galle not only contribute but you also listen and insist, whatever television networks Marvan Atapattu was dismissed for a to play abroad. That was to safeguard Cricket Ground is my favourite in the and learn from those players. They bring say, that every series has to be a three- first ball duck. Sangakkara calls that players from injury which meant that I entire world. I made my debut there and fresh ideas. Sometimes with experience, match series. knock a special one as it enabled the had to give up my Lancashire contract. your vision narrows and sometimes you Question: A few days ago you won get tunnel visions and you need to be on the Peoples’ Player of the Year award. the watch out for that and watch out for Tell us about your favourite crick- those comfort zones where you don’t eter? accept everything as they are and you Sangakkara: My childhood hero was always push yourself to become better. Sir Vivian Richards, no doubt about that. Question: Talk us through the My favourite cricketer, however is Brian Lahore double hundreds. It was your Charles Lara. I have also great admira- first double hundred and Pakistan tion for Aravinda de Silva and Mahela had a solid fast bowling unit.
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