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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S1E15 - Kumar Sangakkara

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Colin Murray visits the home of one of the world’s greatest cricketers - Kumar Sangakkara - to talk about fatherhood, being shot at, and how he is the un-cool one in his family.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?

0:06.0

What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?

0:10.0

I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti.

0:14.0

I saw a footprint and that really gave me goosebumps.

0:16.0

Or people who knew me.

0:18.0

Emmy, I remember every secret, every lie.

0:21.0

I'm the only one who knows the truth.

0:23.0

Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003.

0:27.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:29.0

Thank you so much for downloading episode 14 of at home with Colin Murray.

0:36.0

If Sri Lankan cricket legend Kumar Sangakara is not unique,

0:40.0

then he's certainly won in a minion.

0:43.0

With the bat he's one of the best of all time.

0:45.6

He dominated the number one spot in the ICC test banning rankings for a decade, twice

0:51.5

wisdom leading cricketer of the year, a one-day international

0:55.0

phenomenon, a record-breaking wicked keeper, and a man who holds more records than

1:00.1

HMV. Away from the crease he survived a terrorist attack in Pakistan on his team bus,

1:06.0

grew up in a war tour in Sri Lanka and had his whole perspective changed by what he saw in the wake of the devastating tsunami.

1:14.0

Kumar is someone very special indeed, and it was an enlightening interview with him a couple of years ago

1:21.0

that actually sparked the idea for this entire at home series in the first

1:24.7

place where this episode goes. I've no idea because Kumar is a firebrand, a bright sparkies,

1:31.8

inspirational company so as I head to his house I'm going to just

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