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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inshaffadhil" data-source="post: 10145426" data-attributes="member: 203096"><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/129500/129559.2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">Sangakkara is considered one of the game's most eloquent current players.Kumar Sangakkara will deliver the eleventh MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's on July 4 2011.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">He will become the first Sri Lankan and the first current international cricketer to be invited to speak at the annual event which comes a day after Sri Lanka meet England at Lord's for the third ODI of the series.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">Sangakkara will also take over from 2009 speaker, Adam Gilchrist, as the youngest man to deliver the lecture, which has been given by people such as Geoffrey Boycott, Desmond Tutu and, most recently, Imran Khan.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">The lecture was inaugurated in 2001 in memory of the late Colin Cowdrey, a past president of MCC, who - together with another former club president, Ted Dexter - was instrumental in the Spirit of Cricket being included as the Preamble to the 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the BBC commentator and current MCC President, said: "Sri Lanka have been so consistently successful in world cricket that it is very appropriate that a distinguished cricketer from this beautiful country should be giving the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey lecture.</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><span style="color: Red"><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">"Kumar Sangakkara is widely respected in cricket not only as a brilliant player but as a highly intelligent one. His views on topical matters will be truly illuminating and many people will be looking forward to hearing what he has to say."</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>

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