Yehali sangakkara biography of michael

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While autobiographies go on to become best-sellers, it's the first-hand account from someone close that paints the best picture about the person behind a celebrity.

Galle: Often it’s intriguing to know the person behind the personality the world admires.

In case of sportspersons, it’s their life beyond the field that generates as much interest as it does on it, especially when they are on the brink of bidding their careers a good bye – just like Kumar Sangakkara will in Colombo in a few days’ time.

While autobiographies of such personalities go on to become best-sellers, it’s the first-hand account from someone close, someone from the family, who has been and lived with the person, that paints the best picture.

In Sangakkara’s case, it can’t be anyone apart from his wife Yehali, who has been through the highs and lows of Kumar’s career, seen him celebrating his hundreds and taking failures on th