Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara has decided to resign from the Captiancy of One Day and 20-20 Mini Overs Game Teams with immediate effect his manager has announced today.Sangakkra who lead the Sri Lankan Team during the recently concluded ICC World Cup Cricket Championships held in the sub continent handed over his resignation letter to the Sri Lankan Interim Cricket Board according to his Manager Charlie Austin.
Although he has resigned from One Day Captiancy he will resigned the Captiancy of the Sri Lankan Test Cricket Team after the forthcoming test series with England and Australia sangakkar’s manager has confirmed.
Meanwhile In an official release issued by Sangakkara this evening he stressed that the decision of resigning from captiancy was taken even before the World Cup begins and he thinks that it will help to groom a new captian for the Sri Lankan Cricket Team for the next Cricket World Cup sheduled in 2015.
However he stressed that he will be available for Captianing the National Cricket Team for the forthcoming England and Australian Tours if the Sri Lankan Cricket not selected a player yet to lead the test series against those teams.Referring on retiring from Cricket Sangakkara who is popularly known as "Sanga" stressed that he will like to play cricket for another two or three years before retiring from the game.