Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara made 18 in his final international innings before retirement.
The 37-year-old, the fifth highest Test run-scorer in history, was given a guard of honour by India's fielders in the second Test in Colombo.
He hit three fours before edging Ravichandran Ashwin to gully, leaving Sri Lanka 33-2 in pursuit of 413.
Sangakkara ends his 134-Test career with 12,400 runs at an average of 57.40, with 38 centuries.
The left-hander also played 404 one-day internationals and 56 Twenty20 internationals and also appeared in English county cricket for Warwickshire, Durham and Surrey, who he joined on a two-year contract in January.
After breaking into the Sri Lanka side in 2000 as a wicketkeeper-batsman, he eventually relinquished the wicketkeeping gloves in Test cricket in 2008. He gave the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's in 2011.
Sangakkara in numbers
Kumar Sangakkara's international career | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s/50s | Ct/st | |
Tests
|
134
|
12,400
|
319
|
57.40
|
38/52
|
182/20
|
ODIs
|
404
|
14,234
|
169
|
41.98
|
25/93
|
402/99
|
T20Is
|
56
|
1,382
|
78
|
31.40
|
0/8
|
25/20
|
- He retires as Sri Lanka's leading run-scorer in Tests and ODIs.
- Sangakkara's Test average (57.40) is the highest of the top 26 Test run-scorers.
- Of those with 7,000 or more Test runs, only Sir Donald Bradman (99.94), Ken Barrington (58.67), Wally Hammond (58.45) and Sir Garfield Sobers (57.78) average higher.
- Sangakkara averaged 66.78 as a pure batsman in Tests, as compared to 40.48 as a wicketkeeper, with 22 of his 38 Test centuries coming after he gave up the gloves.
- He scored four successive centuries at the 2015 World Cup, having captained Sri Lanka to the 2011 final.
Source: BBC / ESPNcricinfo
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