The 199 Club of Test Cricket!

#8 Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka

When: Sri Lanka vs Pakistan, 1st Test, Galle 2012

Just like Andy Flower, the former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara too was left stranded on 199. It was the first Test of Pakistan's tour of the island nation in the summer of 2012. The home side while batting first piled on a massive 472 engineered on the tenacity of Dilshan (101) and Sangakkara (199*).

Sangakkara thought he had achieved his ninth double hundred with a six and started celebrating. In a bizarre turn of events that ensued, it came to notice that scoreboard, due to a technical glitch, displayed an extra run which was not to be. His partner Nuwan Pradeep lost his stumps in the next over to Mohammed Hafeez, leaving Sanga a run bereft of his double hundred. It didn't have any bearing on the game though as the hosts knocked Pakistan over for 100 & 300 to gobble the game by 209 runs. Sangakkara eventually finished with eleven double hundreds and the next time he reached 199, he converted it into a triple hundred.