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Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara is first non-British President of MCC
Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara is first non-British President of MCC: Details, Career, Highlights
Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara (41-year-old) has been named as the first non-British president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Kumar Sangakkara succeeded Anthony Wreford. It was announced at the MCC annual general meeting at Lord’s on 1 May 2019. He will take up his one-year post in October.
Kumar Sangakkara will have responsibilities to launch of The Hundred – the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new 100-ball cricket format and two England test matches against West Indies and Pakistan.
Kumar Sangakkara is a fifth highest run scorer in Test cricket. He scored 12,400 runs scoring 38 centuries and 52 half-centuries in 134 tests, appears twice on the honors boards at Lord’s.
Kumar Sangakkara in January 2015, became Sri Lanka's highest ever ODI run scorer by surpassing the previous record of 13430 runs held by cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya.
Kumar Sangakkara retired from the International Cricket and Test Cricket in 2015.
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Founded: 1787
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club based at the Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London, England.
MCC, owner of Lord’s Ground as well, is the world’s most active cricket club. It acts as the guardian of the laws of the Cricket. It is the copyright holder of the Laws of Cricket.
MCC was the governing body of cricket in Wales, in England, and across the world.
In the year 1993, almost all of its global functions were transferred to the International Cricket Council (ICC). Its English governance was passed to the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB).
