- During the World Cup 2015, he became first batsman in World Cup history to score 4 consecutive hundreds.
- He won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012, Test Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and ODI Cricketer of the Year multiple times in 2011 and 2013.
- During the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 championship, Sangakkara announced his retirement from the Twenty20 International. Then in December 2014, he announced that he would also retire from ODI cricket after the 2015 Cricket World Cup. On 27 June 2015, Sangakkara officially announced his retirement from Test cricket as well. He retired from Test cricket after the second Test match against India.
- On 29 January 2015, Sangakkara became Sri Lanka's highest ever ODI run scorer, surpassing the previous record of 13,430 runs held by Sanath Jayasuriya. In the same match, he also broke the record for ODI wicketkeeping dismissals, breaking the previous record of 472 held by Adam Gilchrist.
- In terms of a number of innings required, Sangakkara is the fastest batsman to reach 8,000, 9,000, 11,000 and 12,000 runs in Test cricket. He is also joint fastest to 10,000.
- He has 11 test double centuries, only one short of 12 double centuries by Don Bradman.
- On 14 February 2015, Sangakkara became the second highest run scorer in One-Day International history, by surpassing Australian Ricky Ponting. He achieved this milestone during the first match of 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup against New Zealand, but Sri Lanka lost the match.
- He was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2011 and 2015.
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