DEREK PRINGLE

Some sportsmen are motivated by glory, others by money. But there is a small elite who derive their greatest pleasure from a job well done. Kumar Sangakkara is among those who take an inordinate pride in their performance; cricketers motivated to their last fibre whether playing in the park or the Test arena. Why else would ‘Sanga’ bat and battle his way to five successive hundreds for Surrey in the County Championship?
Cricket fans perhaps take such motivation as a given and, at the start of a player’s career, they would be right to do so.
But Sangakkara ...