5 knocks by Kumar Sangakkara the undisputed Talisman of Sri Lankan cricket

4. 192 v Australia, Hobart, 2007:

As often the case away from home, Sangakkara entered at the loss of an early wicket but switched on to recovery mode well, adding 143 with Atapattu. But a double-strike on 158, with Brett Lee dismissing skipper Jayawardene for a golden duck, set back Sri Lanka. Eight wickets down, Sri Lanka were staring at a crushing defeat, but Sanga kept the visitors in the game with a masterful innings that ended 8 short of another Test double and at one stage threatened to complete a remarkable chase of 507. Sangakkara though, was given out caught by Ricky Ponting at second slip off Stuart Clark when going for a pull shot and the umpire failed to spot the ball going off his shoulder. Nevertheless it was a tremendous innings scored in 431 minutes from 282 balls with 27 fours and 1 six.