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Sanath Jayasuriya

Personal information
Full name	Sanath Teran Jayasuriya
Born	30 June 1969 (1969-06-30) (age 40) Matara, Sri Lanka
Nickname	Master Blaster[1][2]
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Batting style	Left-hand
Bowling style	Slow left arm orthodox
Role	Opening batsman, left arm spinner
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 49)	22 February 1991 v New Zealand
Last Test	1 December 2007 v England
ODI debut (cap 58)	26 December 1989 v Australia
Last ODI	27 December 2009 v India
ODI shirt no.	07
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1994 - present	Delhi
2008-present	Mumbai Indians (IPL)
2005	Somerset
2007	Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	List A
Matches	110	441[3]	263	536
Runs scored	6,973	13,377	14,782	15,481
Batting average	40.07	32.54	38.49	31.21
100s/50s	14/31	28/68	29/70	31/77
Top score	340	189	340	189
Balls bowled	8,188	14,754	15,113	17,406
Wickets	98	322	205	391
Bowling average	34.34	36.35	32.77	35.30
5 wickets in innings	2	4	2	5
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/34	6/29	5/34	6/29
Catches/stumpings	78/–	122/–	162/–	148/–
Source: CricketArchive, 21 November 2009

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya (Sinhala:සනත් ජයසූරිය) (born 30 June 1969 in Matara,Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. An all-rounder, he has been a member of the Sri Lankan cricket team since 1989. He is the only player to score more than 13,000 runs and capture more than 300 wickets in one day internationals. He is also regarded by many critics and supporters as one of the best ODI players.^{[citation needed]}.

Jayasuriya is part of the Mumbai Indians team in the Indian Premier League where he presently opens the batting alongside Sachin Tendulkar.

Personal life

Jayasuriya was born to Dunstan and Breeda Jayasuriya in Matara and had his education at Servatius College, Matara. It was there that his cricketing talents were nourished by the Principal, G.L. Galappathy and coach Lionel Wagasinghe.^[4]. He has an elder brother, Chandana Jayasuriya.

His wife, Sandra, is a former flight attendant for Sri Lankan Airlines. Sanath and Sandra have 3 children. Sandra is his second wife. His first wife, Sumudu Karunanayake also worked with Sri Lankan Airlines.

Sanath Jayasuriya was also one of the judges at the Miss World contest for the year 1996, which took place at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore

Sanath Jayasuriya is the first cricketer to be appointed as a UN Goodwill Ambassador (by UNAIDS, Geneva) for his commitment to prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people in Sri Lanka.

He entered politics in February 2010 as the candidate for Matara District. His party is the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Jayasuriya says that he intends to continue playing cricket if he is elected.

Style and International Career

Batting style

Sanath Jayasuriya used to hold a very unique record almost never to be achieved by a single cricket player. He held the fastest fifty (against Pakistan 17 balls) fastest 100 and fastest 150 (against England in 95 balls) in ODI cricket. Though he lost the fastest 100 to Shahid Afridi, he still holds the other two records. Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar are the only players in history to have 4 ODI scores over 150(Sachin Tendulkar has 5 scores over 150) . Along with partner Romesh Kaluwitharana, Jayasuriya revolutionized one day international batting with his aggressive tactics during the 1996 Cricket World Cup, a strategy they first tried on the preceding tour of Australia. The tactic used was to take advantage of the early fielding restrictions by smashing the opening bowlers to all parts of the cricket ground, particularly by lofting their deliveries over the mandatory infielders, rather than the established tactic of building up momentum gradually. This was a novel but potentially match-winning tactic at that time, and Sri Lanka, who had previously never made it out of the preliminary rounds, went on to win the World Cup without a single defeat. Their new gameplan is now the standard opening batting strategy in limited overs cricket for the modern era. Glenn McGrath cited Jayasuriya in his XI of toughest batsmen, noting "it is always a massive compliment to someone to say they changed the game, and his storming innings in the 1996 World Cup changed everyone's thinking about how to start innings."^[5]

Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls along with his trademark shot, a lofted cut over point.

He was the key player in Sri Lanka's victory in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where he was adjudged Man of the Tournament in recognition of his all-round contributions.

His philosophy towards batting is summarized by an all-aggression approach and over the years he has dominated almost every one day bowling combination that he has faced at one stage or another. Batsmen such as Adam Gilchrist and Virender Sehwag have similar styles. This is because of his ability to make huge match-winning contributions at rapid pace once he gets in, he holds the record for the second highest number of one day centuries and has scored the most 150+ scores along with Sachin Tendulkar. His devastating performances have ensured that Sri Lanka have won almost 80% of the matches that he scores over 50 in. This is due to the rapid rate in which he scores his runs as well as the psychological effect he has on opposition bowling attacks.

He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997 and served as captain of the Sri Lankan team in 38 Test matches from 1999 to 2003. He is a very useful all-rounder with a good batting average in both Test cricket and One Day Internationals, and an excellent batting strike rate in One Day Internationals.

As a left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he has a reasonable bowling average and economy rate. He regularly helps to decrease the workloads of strike bowlers Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas and as of August 2007 has 400 international wickets.

Jayasuriya is a skillful infielder, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the seventh highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the eleventh highest success rate.^[6]

Test career

Jayasuriya held the record for the highest Test score made by a Sri Lankan, 340 against India in 1997. This effort was part of a second-wicket partnership with Roshan Mahanama that set the then all-time record for any partnership in Test history, with 576 runs. Both records were surpassed in July 2006 when fellow Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene scored 374 as part of a 624-run partnership with Kumar Sangakkara against South Africa. On 20 September 2005, during the Second Test of the home series against Bangladesh, Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests, and the 33rd Test cricketer to achieve this feat.

Jayasuriya announced his intention to retire from Test cricket following the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in April 2006. He reversed his decision soon after, however, joining the Sri Lankan cricket team in England in May 2006. Missing the first two Tests, Jayasuriya returned in the Third Test at Trent Bridge.^[7] Although his Test performances were not notable.

After scoring 78 runs on day three of the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007, he announced he was to retire from Test cricket^[8] at the end of the match. In that inning he hit six fours in one over against James Anderson.

One day international career

Jayasuriya holds the world's fourth highest ODI score, jointly with Viv Richards, which is 189 runs against India. As of February 2007 he holds the four highest individual scores by a Sri Lankan, and seven of the top nine.^[9]

He currently holds the record fastest fifty in ODIs, scored off just 17 balls. Jayasuriya was the previous record-holder for the fastest century (off 48 balls), before losing that claim to Shahid Afridi of Pakistan. Currently he has held the world record for most ODI sixes. He has become the fourth batsman to score more than 10,000 runs and the second batsman to score more than 12,000, and 13,000 runs in the history of ODIs. He also is the second highest century getter in ODIs with 28 centuries. He used to hold the record of scoring most runs in an ODI over (30; he has achieved this remarkable feat twice).This record is now with South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs (36 runs in an over).Currently he is also heading the most ODI caps by an international cricketer 444, Sachin Tendulkar (India), 442 is next to him.

During the one-day Natwest series in May 2006 in England, he scored two centuries, including scoring 152 off 99 balls in the final match. In that innings, he and Upul Tharanga (109) put on 286 runs for the first wicket, a new record^[10]. Jayasuriya's batting display earned him the Man of the Series award as Sri Lanka won the series 5-0.

Following the Natwest Trophy, Sri Lanka travelled to Holland for a two-match one-day series. In the first game, Jayasuriya scored 157 off 104 balls as Sri Lanka posted 443/9,^[11] beating the 438/9 South Africa scored against Australia in March 2006. Sri Lanka won the match by 195 runs. On a personal note the innings was his 4th score of over 150 in ODI cricket and he is currently the only player to do so other than Sachin Tendulkar who has achieved it five times. It was also his second successive score of 150 plus, another first in ODI cricket.

He also scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies.

In 2008, his one-day career was all but over when he was omitted for the ODIs in the West Indies . However, a stirring performance in the IPL - finishing the third-highest run-getter with 514 runs - prompted his country's sports minister to intervene in his selection for the Asia Cup. He ultimately shaped Sri Lanka's title victory with a blistering hundred under pressure.^[12]

Twenty 20 career

During the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, Jayasuriya appeared to break his tradition of using Kookaburra bats by wielding a normal Reebok sponsored bat. He achieved two half centuries in the group stages against New Zealand and Kenya in this tournament. He also achieved a dubious record of having the most expensive figures in a Twenty20 international, having been hit for 64 runs in the maximum of 4 overs.^[13]

After the Twenty20 World Cup, Jayasuriya played in Sri Lanka's 3-2 One Day International series defeat against England, achieving limited success and then in the 2-0 Test series defeat in Australia.

In December 2007, Jayasuriya confirmed that he has signed for Warwickshire for the 2008 Twenty20 Cup.^[14] In April 2008, he joined the Mumbai Indians to play in the IPL T20.

After scoring a devastating 114 not out off just 48 balls ^[15] for the Mumbai Indian against Chennai Jayasuriya regained his position in the one day side after he had been dropped for the West Indies tour. He then followed up his century with a 17-ball 48 not out to surpass the Kolkata Knight Riders score of 67 in just the 6th over resulting in the biggest victory in Twenty20 history (in terms of balls remaining.^[16] He currently leads the six-hitting board and is the tournament's 3rd highest run scorer with 514 runs at a strike rate of about 160.

Player Statistics

Career Performance

Sanath Jayasuriya's career performance graph.

Half Centuries

Test Half Centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

One Day International Half Centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

International Records

• He has amassed the fourth highest ODI score, 189 runs, with Viv Richards.
• He currently holds the record for fastest fifty in ODIs, scored off just 17 balls.

• Jayasuriya jointly held the record for most sixes in an ODI innings, 11, with Shahid Afridi. He hit the sixes during an innings of 134 from 65 balls against Pakistan, in Singapore. This record was broken by Xavier Marshall of West Indies when he hit 12 sixes in an innings against Canada on 22 August,2008.

• Jayasuriya holds the record for second highest fours in an ODI innings, 24 fours.

• He is currently the second highest run scorer in ODIs with 13,377 runs. (Sachin Tendulkar is first with 17,598).

• He is the only batsman in history to have two consecutive ODI scores above 150.

• Jayasuriya holds the record for the fastest 150 in an ODI innings, off 95 balls against England in 2006.

• He is currently the third highest centurion in ODIs with 28 under his belt (only Ponting (29) and Tendulkar (45) have more).

• He held the record for the fastest century in ODIs, scored off just 48 balls, before Shahid Afridi scored a century of 37 balls against Sri Lanka.

• He holds the record of most number of 6s in ODIs. He currently has 270 sixes in his career.

• He held the record for scoring the most runs of an ODI over, 30, a feat which he achieved twice, against Pakistan and New Zealand. Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa broke the record by hitting 6 sixes in an over from Daan van Bunge, against the Netherlands.

• Jayasuriya has second most Man of the Match awards (47) in ODI cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (61).

• He was also the first player to play in 400 ODIs matches.

• He is the third batsman in Test cricket to hit 6 fours in one over. He did this against England in his last Test innings.

• He is the oldest player to have scored a ODI century, performing the feat against India at Dumballa, Sri Lanka on 28 January 2009. He was 39 years 212 days, beating Geoffrey Boycott's record of 39 years 51 days.

Awards

Test Cricket - Man of the Series awards

• In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping

#	Series	Season	Series Performance	Result
1	India in Sri Lanka Test Series	2000	571 (2 Matches, 3 Innings); 3-84, 2 Ct.	Drawn
2	Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series	2004/05	424 (2 Matches, 4 Innings); 2-47	Drawn 1-1

Test Cricket - Man of the match awards

• In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	1st Test - India in Sri Lanka Test Series	1997	1st Innings - 340(4x36, 6x2); 3 wickets, 1 Ct.	Drawn
2	1st Test - India in Sri Lanka Test Series	2001	1st Innings - 111(4x16, 6x1); 2 Ct. 2nd Innings - 6* (4X1); 1 wicket	Won by 10 wickets
3	3rd Test - Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka Test Series	2001/02	1st Innings - 28(4x3); 5 wickets 2nd Innings - 36 (4X6); 4 wickets, 1 Ct.	Won by 315 runs
4	1st Test - Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series	2004/05	1st Innings - 38(4x4); 1 wicket, 1 run-out 2nd Innings - 253 (4X33, 6x4)	Won by 201 runs

One-Day International Cricket - Man of the series awards

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	Wills World Cup in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka	1995/96	221(6 Matches); 7-231, 5 Ct.	Won World Cup by 7 wickets
2	Singer Cup in Singapore	1995/96	221(3 Matches); 3-115, 2 Ct.	Won Singer Cup by 43 runs
3	Pepsi Independence Cup in India	1997	306(5 Matches); 5-200	Won Independence Cup
4	India in Sri Lanka	1997	210(3 Matches); 5-184, 1 Ct.)	Won the series 2-0
5	Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka	1997/98	199(3 Matches); 4-154, 1 Ct.	Won the series 3-0
6	Coca-Cola Champions Trophy in UAE	2000/01	413(5 Matches); 1-111, 4 Ct.	Won by 245 runs
7	Coca-Cola Cup in Sri Lanka	2001	305(7 Matches); 3-188, 4 Ct.	Won by 121 runs
8	LG Abans Triangular Series in Sri Lanka	2001/02	194(5 Matches, 5 Innings);8-167,1 Ct.	Won by 34 runs
9	Asia Cup in Sri Lanka	2004	293(6 Matches); 4-78, 1 Ct.	Won the Asia Cup by 25 runs
10	NatWest Series(Eng, SL) in England	2006	322(5 Matches); 5-185	Won the series 5-0
11	Laqshya Series in Sri Lanka	2007	53(3 Matches); 9-68	Won the series 3-0

Product and brand endorsements

Sanath Jayasuriya endorses the following products:

• Cargills Ceylon PLC: 2008–Present^[17]
• CIC Agri Business: 2008–Present^[18]
• Dialog Telekom: 2007–Present^[19]
• SINGER Sri Lanka: 1996-1998
• Reebok brand ambassador

See also

• 100 Runs Test Cricket Partnerships by Sri Lanka

References

External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile : Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya Batsmen with 10,000 or more runs in ODI cricket Sachin Tendulkar • Sanath Jayasuriya • Inzamam-ul-Haq • Sourav Ganguly • Ricky Ponting • Rahul Dravid • Brian Lara • Jacques Kallis Bowlers who have taken 300 One-Day International wickets  Wasim Akram ·  Muttiah Muralitharan ·  Waqar Younis ·  Anil Kumble ·  Shaun Pollock ·  Glenn McGrath ·  Javagal Srinath ·  Chaminda Vaas ·  Sanath Jayasuriya ·  Brett Lee   Sanath Jayasuriya in the Cricket World Cup Sri Lanka squad – 1992 Cricket World Cup 1 De Silva (c) • 2 Anurasiri • 3 Gurusinha • 4 Hathurusingha • 5 Jayasuriya • 6 Kalpage • 7 Mahanama • 8 Ramanayake • 9 Ranatunga • 10 Ratnayake • 11 Samarasekera • 12 Tillakaratne (wk) • 13 Wickramasinghe • 14 Wijegunawardene Sri Lanka squad – 1996 Cricket World Cup (1st Title) 1 Ranatunga (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Chandana • 4 De Silva • 5 Dharmasena • 6 Gurusinha • 7 Kaluwitharana (wk) • 8 Jayasuriya • 9 Mahanama • 10 Muralitharan • 11 Pushpakumara • 12 Tillakaratne • 13 Vaas • 14 Wickramasinghe • Coach: Whatmore Sri Lanka squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Ranatunga (c) • 2 Muralitharan • 3 Atapattu • 4 Jayawardene • 5 Mahanama • 6 Tillakaratne • 7 Kaluwitharana (wk) • 8 Vaas • 9 De Silva • 10 Wickramasinghe • 11 Kalpage • 12 Chandana • 13 Upashantha • 14 Hathurusingha • 15 Jayasuriya • Coach: Dias Sri Lanka squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup 1 Jayasuriya (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Jayawardene • 4 Sangakkara (wk) • 5 De Silva • 6 Arnold • 7 Mubarak • 8 Tillakaratne • 9 Muralitharan • 10 Vaas • 11 Fernando • 12 Gunaratne • 13 Gunawardene • 14 Nissanka • 15 Buddhika • Coach: Whatmore Sri Lanka squad – 2007 Cricket World Cup Runners-Up 1 Jayawardene (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Jayasuriya • 4 Tharanga • 5 Sangakkara • 6 Dilshan • 7 Arnold • 8 Silva • 9 Maharoof • 10 Vaas • 11 Fernando • 12 Malinga • 13 Kulasekara • 14 Muralitharan • 15 Bandara • Coach: Moody Mumbai Indians – current squad 1 Jayasuriya · 10 Tendulkar (c) · 12 Takawale · 15 Tiwary · 16 Shah · 17 Napier · 25 Nayar · 26 Fernando · 27 Rahane · 30 Kulkarni · 34 Ronchi · 47 Bravo · 64 Mills · 77 Khan · 89 Duminy · 99 Malinga ·  Ashraful ·  Bosman ·  Dhawan ·  Harbhajan ·  McLaren ·  Nanda ·  Raje ·  Shaikh · Coach: Robin Singh Dolphins cricket team – current squad 1 H Amla · 3 Louw · 5 Ackerman · 7 Jayasuriya · 11 Khan (c) · 14 Bosman · 18 Barnes · 23 Kent · 24 Abdulla · 28 Smit · 29 Thomas · 60 de Bruyn · 99 A Amla ·  Hall ·  Friend ·  Miller ·  Mlongo ·  Abbott ·  Bekker · Coach: Pybus Ruhuna cricket team – current squad 7 Jayasuriya (c) · 99 Malinga ·  Tharanga ·  Jayantha ·  Lokuhettige ·  Weerakoon ·  de Saram ·  S de Silva ·  G de Silva ·  Priyanjan ·  Sampath ·  Lakshitha ·  Senanayake ·  Kulasekara ·  Rideegammanagedera ·