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Sri Lanka Great Kumar Sangakkara Scores Career’s 100th Century

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Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara scored the 100th century of his illustrious career while playing for English county Surrey in a one-day match on Tuesday.

Sangakkara hit a run-a-ball 121 against Yorkshire in the One-Day Cup at Headingley.

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Earlier this English summer, Sangakkara scored five straight centuries for Surrey in the county championship.

The 39-year-old left-handed batsman now has 39 centuries in one-day cricket to go with his 61 centuries in first-class cricket, 38 of which have come in test matches.

Sangakkara has said he will retire from first-class cricket in September at the end of the current county season.

The Surrey batsman, who quit test cricket in 2015 with 12,400 runs, is fifth on the all-time list of test run scorers, averaging 57.40 in 134 tests.

"You try to fight the inevitable but you need to get out while you're ahead," the 39-year-old told the BBC.

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