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Former Sri Lankan cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara is playing for England’s cricket club Shillingstone. When he came out to bat in a match, everyone’s attention went to his helmet and it became a topic of discussion on social media. There was a BCCI logo on his helmet, but everyone was left wondering why Sangakkara was playing wearing the helmet of the Indian cricket team and where did he get it from. He himself disclosed this.
Kumar Sangakkara, playing in England, played a brilliant inning of 168 runs for Shillingstone against Broadstone. In this innings, he hit 11 sixes and 16 fours, that is, he scored 130 runs with only sixes and fours. Before playing in England, he was in India, he was the head coach of Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. Under his coaching the team reached the playoffs. Now the fans are also liking to see Sangakkara playing on the cricket field, but meanwhile his helmet started being discussed. It had BCCI logo and tricolor flag on it, it was the helmet of Team India.
Indian cricketer gave a gift
After this, Kumar Sangakkara revealed in an interview that this helmet of Team India was gifted to him by Yashasvi Jaiswal. Yashasvi played for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026, whose coach was Sangakkara. Yashasvi joined the RR team in 2020, there is a good bond between Jaiswal and Sangakkara. While talking about Yashasvi in the last edition of IPL, Sangakkara had praised his art of scoring runs in any situation.
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Talking about Kumar Sangakkara, he joined Rajasthan Royals in 2021, he was appointed as Director of Cricket. After the departure of Rahul Dravid, RR had appointed Sangakkara as the head coach for the last edition.
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Sangakkara’s international career
Kumar Sangakkara played 134 Tests, 404 ODIs and 56 T20 International matches for Sri Lanka, in which he scored 12400, 14234 and 1382 runs respectively. He has 38 centuries to his name in Tests and 25 centuries in ODIs.