Sangakkara mark in Lankan win
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KUMAR Sangakkara became the first batsman to score four consecutive one-day centuries as Sri Lanka thrashed Scotland by 148 runs at the Cricket World Cup in Hobart, Australia, yesterday.
The left-hander hit 124 off 95 balls and Tillakaratne Dilshan made 104 as the islanders piled up 363 for nine and then bowled Scotland out for 215 in 43.1 overs in the Pool A match.
Skipper Preston Mommsen (60) and Freddie Coleman (70) put on 118 for the fourth wicket but they provided the only Scottish challenge as seamers Nuwan Kulasekara and Dushmantha Chameera grabbed three wickets each.
Sangakkara also took two catches to overtake Adam Gilchrist as the most successful World Cup wicket-keeper with 54 dismissals. The Australian had 52 victims to his name.
Sri Lanka ended the league with four wins from six matches and now awaits an undecided opponent in the first quarterfinal at the Sydney Cricket Ground on March 18.
Scotland’s fifth successive defeat means it will take an early flight home after its final league match against Australia at the same venue on Saturday.
Sangakkara, 37, who will retire from one-day cricket after the ongoing World Cup, had made 105 not out against Bangladesh, an unbeaten 117 against England and 104 against Australia.
He is the leading scorer at the co-hosted tournament with 496 runs from six games, followed in second place by 38-year-old Dilshan with 395 runs.
The pair put on 195 for the second wicket after Lahiru Thirimanne had been snapped up in the slips off Alasdair Evans in the sixth over after Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
It was their 20th century partnership, second best in ODI history.
Sangakkara leapfrogged six players who had scored three ODI tons in a row — Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, the South African trio of Herschelle Gibbs, AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock, and Ross Taylor of New Zealand.
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