Gyaan Raja
Rajesh Nimbunkar
<h1>Sangakkara Scores 4th Successive Century - Cricket World Cup</h1>
Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara turned into the first player to score four progressive one-day international hundreds of years as his side beat Scotland at the World Cup.
The 37-year-old hit 124 in a sum of 363-9 in Hobart, to run with his past tons in the competition against Bangladesh, England and Australia.
Sangakkara passed 500 ODI rejections as Scotland were rocked the bowling alley out for 215.
Commander Preston Mommsen and Freddie Coleman scored half hundreds of years however Sri Lanka complete with four wins in Pool A.
They look set to face South Africa in the first of the quarter-finals in Sydney on Wednesday.
Despite the fact that they posted their best ever aggregate batting second against a Test-playing country, a fifth annihilation implies Scotland stay without a win. They will play co-has Australia in their last match on Saturday in Hobart.
On a day of records at Bellerive Oval, left-hander Sangakkara recorded his fifth World Cup century and is presently one behind the record of six held by India's Sachin Tendulkar.
He has now scored 14,189 ODI runs and just Tendulkar (18,426), who resigned in 2013, has more runs for their nation in the 50-over organization.
Sangakkara, who turned into the first ever player to score four centuries at a World Cup, has beforehand proposed he will resign from ODI cricket toward the end of the competition.
The wicketkeeper has appreciated a productive spell in the last 12-year and a half, turning into the speediest player to achieve 12,000 Test runs in January in the same match in which he scored his eleventh twofold century, moving him one behind the record held by Australian extraordinary Don Bradman.
"I've been batting and keeping for quite a while, its getting harder and the joints are squeaking and hurting, however I see myself as fortunate to be a piece of an extraordinary group," he said.
"Regardless of how hard you attempt, its tricky to pinpoint why I'm playing so well.
"Possibly I'm settling on better choices at the wrinkle, I don't have the foggiest idea. Whatever it will be, its working for me right now."