Sanath Jayasuriya

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Sanath Jayasuriya
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Player information
Surname Sanath Teran Jayasuriya
Born June 30, 1969 (age 51)
Matara , Ceylon
Nickname Master Blaster, Matara Mauler
height 1.70 m
Batting style left handed
Bowling style Slow left arm orthodox
Player role All-rounder , captain of Sri Lanka
International games
National team Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 49) February 22, 1991 v  New ZealandNew Zealand
Last test 1st December 2007 v  EnglandEngland
ODI debut (cap 58) December 26, 1989 v  AustraliaAustralia
Last ODI June 28, 2011 v  EnglandEngland
ODI shirt no. 07
T20I debut (cap 4) June 15, 2006 v  EnglandEngland
Last T20I June 25, 2011 v  EnglandEngland
T20I shirt no. 07
National teams
Years team
1992 - 2010/11 Bloomfield C&AC
2005 Somerset
2007 Marylebone Cricket Club
2007 Lancashire
2008 Warwickshire
2008-2010 Mumbai Indians
2010 Worcestershire
2011 Ruhuna Rhinos
2012 Khulna Royal Bengals
Career statistics
Game form test ODI T20I FC
Games 110 445 31 265
Runs (total) 6,973 13,430 629 14,819
Batting average 40.07 32.36 23.29 38.39
100s / 50s 14/31 28/68 0/4 29/70
Highscore 340 189 88 340
Balls 8,188 14,874 371 15,275
Wickets 98 323 19th 205
Bowling Average 34.34 36.75 24.00 33.20
5 wickets in innings 2 4th 0 2
10 wickets in play 0 0 0 0
Best bowling performance 5/34 6/29 3/21 5/34
Catches / stumpings 78/0 123/0 4/0 162/0
Source: Cricinfo , August 1, 2012

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya (born June 30, 1969 in Matara , Ceylon ) is a retired cricketer and politician from Sri Lanka. In 1997 he was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year .

Career

At the beginning of his career, Sanath Jayasuriya was considered a bowler with passable skills as a batsman. In the course of his career he increasingly turned into an all-rounder , who impressed above all with his qualities as a batsman. He played a total of 110 tests for Sri Lanka , in which he scored 6973 runs (40.07 runs per wicket) and 98 wickets . Sanath Jayasuriya made his test debut in February 1991 against New Zealand . Jayasuriya ended his testing career after testing against England in December 2007 . He also played a total of 445 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for Sri Lanka between December 1989 and June 2011 . Especially at ODIs he was able to convince with his skills as an all-rounder. In total, he achieved 323 wickets and 13,430 runs at ODIs during his career, with his ten thousandth run at an ODI in 2005. So far only Sachin Tendulkar has scored more runs at ODIs.

Sanath Jayasuriya took part in a total of five cricket world championships ( 1992 , 1996 , 1999 , 2003 and 2007 ) for the team from Sri Lanka . At the 1996 Cricket World Cup, which he won with his team, Jayasuriya was voted the best player of the tournament. He has scored a total of 1165 runs in his 38 matches at the World Cricket Championships.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Shamil Amit: Officials in comedy of errors at sporting spectacle (en) . In: Sunday Times , December 13, 2002. Retrieved August 1, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Roshan Abeysinghe: 'Matara Mauler' enters Parliament (en) . In: Sunday Times , April 25, 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2011. 
  3. ↑ a b c Sri Lanka / Players / Sanath Jayasuriya ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  4. ^ A glimpse of the past World Cups ( English ) Web India. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Records / World Cup / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jayasuriya, Sanath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jayasuriya, Sanath Teran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Matara (Sri Lanka)