Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya

Source: Cricinfo, March 25 2008

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya (born 30 June, 1969 in Matara) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. The all-rounder has been a member of the Sri Lankan cricket team since 1989. He is the only player in the world to score over 12,000 runs and capture over 300 wickets in ODIs. He is also regarded by many critics and supporters as one of the best ODI players to ever play the game.

Personal life

Hasitha 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.. 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.

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.

Style and International Career

Sanath Jayasuriya revolutionized one day international batting with his aggressive tactics during the 1996 cricket world cup. The tactic used was to take advantage of the early fielding restrictions by smashing the opening bowlers to all parts of the cricket ground. This was a novel but potentially match-winning tactic at that time. Pretty soon this tactic became the standard opening batting strategy in world cricket. Glenn McGrath cited Jayasuriya in his toughest XI 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."

Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls along with his trademark shot, a shot over point. Jayasuriya was promoted to the top of the batting order for ODIs during the 1995-96 tour of Australia, and, with Romesh Kaluwitharana they made use of the early over fielding restrictions to score freely. He was instrumental 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 summarised 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 Gilchrist and Afridi have similar styles but Jayasuriya is universally recongnized as the most dangerous batsmen when on-song. This is because of his incredible record to make huge match-winning contributions once he gets in, he holds the record for the second highest amount of one day centuries and has scored the most 150+ scores. 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 physiological 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.

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.

He also holds the world's second 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.[1]

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. He has hit 241 sixes in one day internationals (ODIs) and currently holds the world record for most ODI sixes. He has become the fourth batsman to score more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. 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. 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).

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. [2] Although his test performances were not notable, he scored two centuries in the one-day Natwest series, 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 one-day international record. 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 the highest team total in limited-overs cricket (443/9), 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. 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.

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.

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. After scoring a half-century on day three of the first Test against England in Kandy, he announced he was to retire from Test cricket at the end of the match, but that he would continue to play in One Day Internationals. He also hit six fours in one over against James Anderson in his last Test innings of 78.

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

Player Statistics

Career Performance

Sanath Jayasuriya's career performance graph.

Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of Test centuries scored by Sanath Jayasuriya

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

Test Centuries of Sanath Jayasuriya
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	112	17	Australia	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	1996
[2]	113	23	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	1997
[3]	340	26	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	1997
[4]	199	27	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	1997
[5]	213	38	England	London, England	Kennington Oval	1998
[6]	188	50	Pakistan	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2000
[7]	148	51	South Africa	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle Stadium	2000
[8]	111	60	India	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle Stadium	2001
[9]	139	68	Zimbabwe	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2002
[10]	145	74	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P.Saravanamuttu Stadium	2002
[11]	131	85	Australia	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2004
[12]	157	87	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2004
[13]	253	93	Pakistan	Faisalabad, Pakistan	Iqbal Stadium	2004
[14]	107	94	Pakistan	Karachi, Pakistan	National Stadium	2004

One Day International Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of ODI centuries scored by Sanath Jayasuriya

• 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 Centuries of Sanath Jayasuriya
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	140	71	New Zealand	Bloemfontein, South Africa	Springbok Park	1994
[2]	134	107	Pakistan	Singapore	The Padang	1996
[3]	120*	111	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	1996
[4]	151*	129	India	Mumbai, India	Wankhede Stadium	1997
[5]	108	136	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	1997
[6]	134*	143	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	1997
[7]	102	150	Zimbabwe	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	1998
[8]	105	200	India	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Bangabandhu Stadium	2000
[9]	189	217	India	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	2000
[10]	103	226	New Zealand	Auckland, New Zealand	Eden Park	2001
[11]	107	232	New Zealand	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	2001
[12]	112	260	England	Leeds, England	Headingley	2002
[13]	102*	271	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium	2002
[14]	122	284	Australia	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	2003
[15]	106	285	England	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	2003
[16]	120	288	New Zealand	Bloemfontein, South Africa	Goodyear Park	2003
[17]	107*	319	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium	2004
[18]	130	320	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium	2004
[19]	114	347	Australia	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	2006
[20]	122	359	England	London, England	The Brit Oval	2006
[21]	152	362	England	Leeds, England	Headingley	2006
[22]	157	363	Netherlands	Amstelveen, Netherlands	VRA Ground	2006
[23]	111	371	New Zealand	Napier, New Zealand	McLean Park	2006
[24]	109	381	Bangladesh	Port of Spain, Trinidad	Queen's Park Oval	2007
[25]	115	384	West Indies	Guyana	Providence Stadium	2007

International Records

• He jointly holds the record for the second highest ODI score, 189 runs, with Viv Richards. (Second only to Saeed Anwar's 194).

• He currently holds the record for fastest fifty in ODIs, scored off just 17 balls.

• Jayasuriya jointly holds 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.

• He is currently the second highest run scorer in ODIs with 12,207 runs. (Sachin Tendulkar is first with Template:Sachin-stats).

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

• 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 second highest centurion in ODIs with 25 under his belt (second only to Tendulkar's Template:Sachin-stats).

• He held the record for the fastest century in ODIs, scored off just 47 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 249 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 (45) in ODI cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (Template:Sachin-stats).

• 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.

Awards

Test Matches

Man of the Series Awards

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	India in Sri Lanka Test Series	1997	571 (2 Matches, 3 Innings); 3-84, 2 catches	Drawn
4	Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series	2004/05	424 (2 Matches, 4 Innings); 2-47	Drawn 1-1

Man of the Match Awards

#	Match	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	1st Test - India in Sri Lanka Test Series	1997	1st Innings - 340(4x36, 6x2); 3 wickets, 1 catch	Drawn
2	1st Test - India in Sri Lanka Test Series	2001	1st Innings - 111(4x16, 6x1); 2 catches 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 catch	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

ODI Matches

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 Catches	Won World Cup by 7 wickets
2	Singer Cup(Ind, Pak, SL) in Singapore	1995/96	221(3 Matches); 3-115, 2 Catches	Won Singer Cup by 43 runs
3	Pepsi Independence Cup(Ind, NZ, Pak, SL) in India	1997	306(5 Matches); 5-200	Won Independence Cup (finals 2-0)
4	India in Sri Lanka	1997	210(3 Matches); 5-184, 1 Catch	Won the series 2-0
5	Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka	1997/98	199(3 Matches); 4-154, 1 Catch	Won the series 3-0
6	Coca-Cola Champions Trophy(Ind, Zim, SL) in UAE	2000/01	413(5 Matches); 1-111, 4 Catches	Won by 245 runs
7	Coca-Cola Cup(Ind, NZ, SL) in Sri Lanka	2001	305(7 Matches); 3-188, 4 Catches	Won by 121 runs
8	LG Abans Triangular Series(SL, WI, Zim) in Sri Lanka	2001/02	194(5 Matches, 5 Innings); 8-167, 1 Catch	Won by 34 runs
9	Asia Cup(BD, HK, Ind, Pak, SL, UAE) in Sri Lanka	2004	293(6 Matches); 4-78, 1 Catch	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(BD, SL) in Sri Lanka	2007	53(3 Matches); 9-68	Won the series 3-0

External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile : Sanath Jayasuriya

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