These days, Team India is playing an ODI series with Afghanistan in India, but the helmet of the Indian team has become a topic of discussion in England. Now it is being discussed a lot on social media also. In fact, Sri Lankan veteran cricketer Kumar Sangakkara wore Team India’s helmet while playing in England, which also had the official logo of BCCI on it.
Now his picture during the match has become a topic of discussion among the fans on social media, that which Indian player’s helmet was it and how did it reach Sangakkara? Let us tell you the complete story of this helmet, who gave this Indian helmet to Kumar Sangakkara?
According to media reports, Kumar Sangakkara had come to play the match in England wearing the helmet of Team India’s opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal. Actually, Jaiswal had gifted this helmet to Sangakkara during the IPL. Sangakkara is the head coach of Rajasthan Royals in IPL and Jaiswal also plays for Rajasthan. In such a situation, the bond between both is very good.
Actually, Kumar Sangakkara wore this helmet gifted by Jaiswal in a match of a local village cricket tournament in England. The helmet has the Indian tricolor and BCCI logo. Sangakkara also displayed amazing batting in the match. He batted brilliantly and played an unbeaten inning of 168 runs. During this period, 16 fours and 11 sixes were hit from his bat.
Kumar Sangakkara’s cricket career has been very brilliant. He is also included in the list of selected batsmen who have scored more than 26 thousand international runs. He played 134 Tests, 404 ODIs and 56 T20 matches for Sri Lanka. He scored 12400 runs in Test cricket, 14234 and 1382 runs in ODI. Sangakkara had scored 38 centuries in Tests and 25 centuries in ODIs. Apart from this, he scored 8 half-centuries in T20. He also played 71 IPL matches, in which he has 1687 runs in his name with 10 half-centuries.
