CWC 2019: 5 players who will be missed in this edition of the cup

#3 Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

The smiling face of Kumar Sangakkara after the 2011 World Cup final defeat to India is still fresh in the minds of all cricket fans. The former Sri Lankan captain bid farewell to cricket fields in August 2015. A few months before that, he had retired from ODI cricket after his team's quarter-final exit in the 2015 World Cup.

Kumar Sangakkara featured in 404 ODIs and scored 14,234 runs in a career that spanned for 15 years. He was Sri Lankan cricket's backbone for all these years and was an absolute gem behind the stumps. The left-handed batsman made a total of 501 ODI dismissals. Sangakkara was a constant in all of Sri Lanka's World Cup campaigns between 2003 and 2015. He played 37 WC matches and scored 1532 runs becoming the third highest World Cup run scorer of all time.

One of Sangakkara's biggest career moments was the 2015 World Cup in which he scored four consecutive centuries which still stands as an unbeaten World Cup record.

Even without getting a chance to grab the cup, Kumar Sangakkara was an absolute legend. He absence will be a noteworthy one in this World Cup.