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Kumar Sangakkara has joined Brendon McCullum in representing MCC to play against Afghanistan on Tuesday 11 July in a historic match at the Home of Cricket.

The former Sri Lanka batsman will feature in the 50-over fixture which will be the first ever game for Afghanistan at Lords.

Tickets are now on sale online for the match, with prices set at 20 for Adults, 10 for Over-65s and 5 for Under 16s.

Sangakkara, who retires from first-class cricket at the end of this season, has been in superb form this season for Surrey, averaging 109.50 in the Specsavers County Championship after scoring five consecutive centuries - one short of a world record.

His historic run, which equalled the County Championship record, included a pair of 100s at Lord's against Middlesex, where he had the privilege of walking past his own newly unveiled portrait on his way to the middle.

Sangakkara also made 321 runs in the Royal London One-Day Cup at an average of 80.25 as Surrey qualified for the quarter-finals.

During his international career, the wicketkeeper scored 12,400 runs at an average of 57.40 in Test match cricket with a further 1,4234 runs in One-Day Internationals.

Sangakkara said: I am very excited to be playing against Afghanistan at Lords this summer.

I have a great respect and admiration for the Afghan cricketers as individuals and as a team.

They have stood tall against adversity and come out as a potent cricketing force capable of upsetting the best of sides in the shorter versions of the game.

I do hope that they will very soon attain Test status and contribute to improve and become a lasting fixture on the elite world cricketing stage.

Afghanistans progress as a one-day side was witnessed last year after the nation reached the Super 10 of the World Twenty20 finals in India, beating West Indies by six runs in Nagpur.

More recently, spinner Rashid Khan and all-rounder Mohammad Nabi have featured for Sunrisers Hyderabad in this years IPL campaign.

A similar fixture last year saw MCC beaten by Nepal in front of a crowd of nearly 6,000 at Lord's.

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