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Full name Sanath Teran Jayasuriya
Born June 30, 1969, Matara
Current age 38 years 323 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Asia XI,Asia XI,Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club,Colombo Cricket Club,Marylebone Cricket Club,Mumbai Indians,Ruhuna,Somerset
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
110
188
14
6973
340
40.07
14
31
910
59
78
0
ODIs
411
399
18
12310
189
32.30
13618
90.39
25
64
249
116
0
T20Is
7
7
1
246
88
41.00
149
165.10
0
3
31
10
0
0
First-class
261
415
33
14742
340
38.59
29
70
162
0
List A
489
474
25
14200
189
31.62
28
72
138
0
Twenty20
23
23
4
643
114*
33.84
381
168.76
1
3
79
32
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
110
140
8188
3366
98
5/34
9/74
34.34
2.46
83.5
6
2
0
ODIs
411
346
14124
11210
308
6/29
6/29
36.39
4.76
45.8
8
4
0
T20Is
7
6
125
155
9
3/21
3/21
17.22
7.44
13.8
0
0
0
First-class
261
15113
6719
205
5/34
32.77
2.66
73.7
2
0
List A
489
16230+
12905
367
6/29
6/29
35.16
4.74*
44.9*
11
5
0
Twenty20
23
17
340
422
27
4/24
4/24
15.62
7.44
12.5
1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Hamilton, Feb 22-26, 1991 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v England at Kandy, Dec 1-5, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Dec 26, 1989 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Feb 29, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
England v Sri Lanka at Southampton, Jun 15, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
Australia v Sri Lanka at Cape Town, Sep 20, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1988/89
Last First-class
Ragama Cricket Club v Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club at Colombo (Bloomfield), Mar 27-30, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1989/90
Last List A
Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Feb 29, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club at Colombo (RPS), Sep 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders at Mumbai, May 16, 2008 scorecard
Profile
One of the world's most uncompromising strikers of the ball, Jayasuriya
found belated fame as a pinch-hitter at the 1996 World Cup, and then demonstrated that he was also capable of massive scoring in Tests, eventually becoming Sri Lanka's highest Test run-scorer. He remains dizzily dangerous, especially on the subcontinent's slower, less bouncy surfaces. Short in stature and powerfully built, he cuts and pulls with awesome power, and his brutal bat-wielding is at odds with his shy, gentle nature. Wised-up opponents have learned to set traps in the gully and at third man to stem the flow of runs, but on song he can be virtually unstoppable, capable of scoring freely on both sides of the wicket.
Jayasuriya is also an extremely effective and canny left-arm spinner, especially in one-day internationals where his stock leg-stump darts are mixed up with clever variations in pace. Jayasuriya served commendably as Sri Lanka's captain for a successful tenure after the sacking of Arjuna Ranatunga in 1999. His leadership style was consensual in comparison to the Napoleon approach adopted by Ranatunga, and he soon built a happy and unified team. The huge responsibility of leading the team, though, started to show and by the 2003 World Cup, after a myriad of off-field controversies, it was clear that he had become a reluctant captain. He eventually resigned in April 2003.
Having stepped down, his position in the side was more vigorously debated and a one-day slump prompted several pundits to call time on his career. But Jayasuriya was far from finished, and he bounced back in 2004 with his most prolific year in Test cricket since 1997. The year included a blazing second-innings century against Australia at Kandy that nearly levelled the series and a marathon double-hundred against Pakistan at Faisalabad. Twin centuries followed during the Asia Cup 2004 and his form was impressive enough for Somerset to sign him up for a season of County Cricket in 2005. And in the Indian Oil Cup in 2005, Jayasuriya became only the fourth batsman to get to 10,000 runs in one-day cricket.
He retired in 2006, only to almost immediately retract his decision. After behind-the-scenes machinations which hinted at internal power struggles between board and coach, he was shoehorned into the squad for the Test series in England but did not play. He bounced back in typical form, however, in the one-day series that followed, showing he has a few more miles left on the clock.
At the age of 38, Jayasuriya scored 467 runs during the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies and was the oldest player in the World Twenty20 that followed in South Africa. He called time on his Test career during the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007-08, and bowed out with a cracking 78 in his final innings.
Charlie Austin December 2007
