Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and a captain.
74 Facts About Sanath Jayasuriya
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Sanath Jayasuriya is credited for having revolutionized one-day international cricket with his explosive batting with Romesh Kaluwitharana in the mid-1990s, which initiated the hard-hitting modern-day batting strategy of all nations.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was an all-rounder, who had an international cricket career that spread over two decades.
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Sanath Jayasuriya is the only player to score over 10,000 runs and capture more than 300 wickets in One Day International cricket and is regarded as one of the best all-rounders in the history of limited-overs cricket.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was named the Most Valuable Player of 1996 Cricket World Cup and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack broke an age-old tradition by naming him one of Five Cricketers' of the Year 1997 despite not playing the previous season in England.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1999 to 2003.
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Sanath Jayasuriya is affectionately known as the Master Blaster.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was a key member of the team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup and was part of the team that made the finals of 2007 Cricket World Cup and 2009 ICC World Twenty20.
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Sanath Jayasuriya retired from Test cricket in December 2007 and from limited-overs cricket in June 2011.
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Sanath Jayasuriya ran for public office at the 2010 Sri Lankan general elections and was elected to the parliament from his native Matara District.
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Sanath Jayasuriya topped the UPFA parliamentary election list for Matara district by obtaining 74,352 preferential votes.
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Sanath Jayasuriya did not contest for the 2015 Sri Lankan general election, though he won most votes from Matara district under UPFA in the 2010 Sri Lankan general election.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was born in the Southern Sri Lankan city of Matara, to the family of Dunstan and Breeda Jayasuriya.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was picked as the 'Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year' in the Outstation Segment in 1988.
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Sanath Jayasuriya received the awards for the 'Best Batsman' and 'Best All-rounder' in the Outstation Segment at the Observer School Cricket Awards ceremony in the same year.
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Sanath Jayasuriya represented Sri Lanka in the inaugural ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup which was held in Australia in 1988 and was selected for a tour in Pakistan a few months later with the Sri Lanka 'B' team, where he made two unbeaten double centuries.
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Sanath Jayasuriya made his One Day International debut against Australia at Melbourne on Boxing Day of 1989 and his Test debut against New Zealand at Hamilton in February 1991.
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Sanath Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls along with his trademark shot, a lofted cut over point.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was one of the key players in Sri Lanka's victory in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where he was adjudged Man of the Tournament in recognition of his all-around contributions.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was a left-arm orthodox spin bowler known for quickly getting through his overs.
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Sanath Jayasuriya took 440 wickets altogether in international cricket with six 5 wicket hauls.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was the most successful bowler for Sri Lanka during the knockout stage of 1996 cricket World Cup where he took 6 wickets in three games.
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Sanath Jayasuriya held the record for the highest Test score made by a Sri Lankan, 340 against India in 1997.
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On 20 September 2005, during the Second Test of the home series against Bangladesh, Sanath Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests, and the 33rd Test cricketer to achieve this feat.
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Sanath Jayasuriya announced his intention to retire from Test cricket following the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in April 2006.
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Sanath Jayasuriya reversed his decision soon after joining the Sri Lankan cricket team in England in May 2006.
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Missing the first two Tests, Sanath Jayasuriya returned in the Third Test at Trent Bridge.
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Sanath Jayasuriya held the records for the fastest fifty, fastest 100 for Sri Lanka and fastest 150 in ODI cricket.
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Sanath Jayasuriya is the only player of the ODI history to have scored two consecutive 150+ scores.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was the previous record-holder for the fastest century, before losing that to Shahid Afridi's 37 ball century.
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Sanath Jayasuriya has held the world record for most ODI sixes, which was surpassed by Shahid Afridi during the 2010 Asia Cup match against Bangladesh.
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Sanath Jayasuriya became 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.
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Sanath Jayasuriya held the record of scoring most runs in an ODI over, and the first batsman to score over 30 in an over.
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Sanath Jayasuriya scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies.
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Sanath Jayasuriya ultimately shaped Sri Lanka's title victory with a blistering hundred under pressure.
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Sanath Jayasuriya's knock of 125 in the finals was voted as the Best ODI Batting Performance of 2008 by ESPNCricinfo.
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Sanath Jayasuriya achieved two half-centuries in the group stages against New Zealand and Kenya in this tournament.
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In December 2007, Sanath Jayasuriya confirmed that he has signed for Warwickshire for the Twenty20 Cup.
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Sanath Jayasuriya 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.
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At the age of 42, Sanath Jayasuriya played for the Ruhuna Rhinos in the qualifying round of the 2011 Champions League.
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In February 2012 Sanath Jayasuriya played for the Khulna Royal Bengals in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League, later that year he played for Kandurata Warriors in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was chosen as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1996 and was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997.
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Sanath Jayasuriya served as the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team in 38 test matches and 117 one day internationals from 1999 to 2003.
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Sanath Jayasuriya led Sri Lanka to the knock-out stage of the 2003 cricket world cup but stepped down from the captaincy after the loss to Australia in the semi-final.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was a very useful all-rounder with a good batting average in both Test cricket and One Day Internationals, and had an excellent batting strike rate in One Day Internationals.
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Sanath Jayasuriya regularly helped to decrease the workloads of contemporary Sri Lankan strike bowlers Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was 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.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was appointed as the chairman of selectors of national cricket team on 28 January 2013 by sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage.
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Sanath Jayasuriya's tenure was ended in 2015, after many failures apart from those wins, such as whitewash against India and 2015 World Cup failure.
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On 11 April 2016, Sanath Jayasuriya was appointed back again to the post of chairman of selectors.
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In June 2014, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party accused Sanath Jayasuriya of sending a mob which assaulted the students of University of Ruhuna whereas the students were staging protests against holding of development exhibitions within the varsity premises.
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In October 2018, Sanath Jayasuriya was charged by the International Cricket Council with two counts of breaching its anti-corruption code.
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In February 2019, Sanath Jayasuriya was banned for two years in taking part in any cricket-related activity by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, after he failed to co-operate in a corruption investigation.
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In May 2019, fake reports circulated in social media that Sanath Jayasuriya had died due to a car accident in Canada and the reports shocked Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin.
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However, Sanath Jayasuriya himself denied such reports and insisted that he is fine and has not visited Canada in recent times.
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Sanath Jayasuriya entered politics in February 2010 as a candidate for Matara District.
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Sanath Jayasuriya's party is the United People's Freedom Alliance of the president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sanath Jayasuriya continued to play cricket after he has secured the most preferential votes from the Matara District by obtaining 74,352 votes.
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Sanath Jayasuriya resigned from Chief Selector post with his members on 3 April 2015.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was appointed as Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was in office until the Parliament dissolved on 26 June 2015.
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Sanath Jayasuriya was later appointed the chairman of selectors of Sri Lanka cricket.
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In January 2018, reports confirmed that Sanath Jayasuriya was known to suffer with a serious knee injury.
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Sanath Jayasuriya flew to Melbourne for the surgery and remained under observation for about a month.
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Sanath Jayasuriya has scored two double centuries; 213 against England and 253 against Pakistan.
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Sanath Jayasuriya, having scored centuries against every Test playing nation except New Zealand and West Indies, retired from Test cricket in 2007 with 14 to his name.
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Sanath Jayasuriya made his ODI debut in 1989 and started playing as an opening batsman in 1993.
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Sanath Jayasuriya went on to score his first century in 1994 against New Zealand.
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Sanath Jayasuriya currently holds the fourth place for most centuries in a career, behind Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ricky Ponting and Rohit Sharma.
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Sanath Jayasuriya holds the record of fourth fastest 150 in one day internationals.
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Sanath Jayasuriya has won many international awards in his 20-year cricketing career.
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Sanath Jayasuriya is second only to Sachin Tendulkar by the number of Man of the match awards for ODIs, where Tendulkar has 62 Man of the Match awards and Jayasuriya has 47 of them.
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Sanath Jayasuriya has 11 ODI Man of the Series awards.
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Sanath Jayasuriya has 5 T20I Man of the Match awards as well.