Sanath Jayasuriya

Cricket Player

Sanath Jayasuriya was born in Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka on June 30th, 1969 and is the Cricket Player. At the age of 54, Sanath Jayasuriya biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 30, 1969
Nationality
Sri Lanka
Place of Birth
Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Age
54 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Cricketer, Politician
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Sanath Jayasuriya Career

Early life and career

Sanath Jayasuriya was born in Matara, Sri Lanka's southern Sri Lankan city, to the Dunstan and Breeda Jayasuriya families. Chandana Jayasuriya, the elder brother of Chandana Jayasuriya, is a little girl. He was educated at St. Servatius' College, Matara, where his cricketing abilities were nurtured by his school principal, G.L. Lionel Wagasinghe, the Galappathy and cricket coach, is a member of the United Kingdom Cricket Association. While at St. Servatius College, Matara, he excelled in cricket and captained the college cricket team at the annual St. Thomas's Tournament. Servatius Cricket Encounter in 1988. In 1988, Jayasuriya was selected as the "Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year" in the Outstation Segment. At the Observer School Cricket Awards ceremony in the same year, he received the same accolades for both the 'Best Batsman' and 'Best All-rounder' in the Outstation Segment. In 1988, Jayasuriya represented Sri Lanka in the inaugural ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, which was held in Australia and was later selected for a tour in Pakistan, where he made two unbeaten double centuries. He was drafted into the national side of the tour to Australia in 1989-90, just short of that. On Boxing Day 1989, he made his One Day International debut against Australia at Melbourne, as well as his Test debut against New Zealand at Hamilton in February 1991.

Style and international career

Jayasuriya and his opening partner Romesh Kaluwitharana revolutionized One Day International Cricket during the 1996 Cricket World Cup, a move that they first attempted on the preceding tour of Australia. Rather than the usual tactic of building up momentum gradually, the tactic was to smash the opening bowlers to all parts of the cricket ground by smashing the opening bowlers to all parts of the cricket ground. This was a novel but potentially match-winning tactic at the time, and Sri Lanka, who had never made it out of the preliminary rounds, went on to win the World Cup without a single loss. Their latest game plan is now the go-to-basics cricket in limited-overs cricket for the modern era. In his XI of the best batsmen, Glenn McGrath cited Jayasuriya, saying, "it is always a huge compliment to someone to say they changed the game, and his blistering innings in the 1996 World Cup changed everyone's thinking about how to begin cricket."

Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls with his signature shot, which is a step above point. He was one of Sri Lanka's key players in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where he was named Man of the Tournament in honor of his all-around contributions. His batting philosophy is summarized by an all-aggression approach, and he has dominated virtually every one-day bowling combination he has encountered at one time or another. He has achieved his best-ever scores (4 scores) jointly with Chris Gayle and Hashim Amla, and has earned the most prestigious scores (4 scores) as a result of his ability to make great match-winning contributions at a rapid pace as he enters. Only Rohit Sharma, David Warner, and Sachin Tendulkar have more scores than him (Rohit Sharma has the most 150+ scores at 7). Sri Lanka has won almost 75% of the matches in limited-overs cricket, thanks to his heroic performances. When asked in an interview who are the most attacking bowlers he had encountered in the game, he said Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose.

Jayasuriya was a left-arm orthodox spin bowler known for raking through his overs. Despite being a spinner, he was used to bowling faster balls and yorkers with quick arm action, which earned him success as a bowler. With six 5 wicket hauls, he took 440 wickets in international cricket. 6 for 29, which he took against England in an ODI in 1993, is his best bowling result in an international cricket bowling session. It was the best bowling performance by a Sri Lankan in ODIs before Muttiah Muralitharan broke the record in 2000. When Jayasuriya took 9 for 74 against Zimbabwe in 2001/2002, he had his best match figures in test cricket.

In the semi-finals of the 1996 Cricket World Cup, one of Jayasuriya's finest bowling performances came in the form of three wickets in seven overs. It was Jayasuriya who took the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar and broke his important relationship with Sanjay Manjrekar, which was taking the game away from Sri Lankans at one point. During the knockout stage of the 1996 cricket World Cup, Jayasuriya was the most reliable bowler for Sri Lanka, where he took 6 wickets in three games. He took 27 wickets in Cricket world cups, including ten wickets in the 2003 edition.

340 against India in 1997, Sanath Jayasuriya set the highest Test score by a Sri Lankan, beating India for the first time. This campaign was part of a second-wicket partnership with Roshan Mahanama that set the all-time record for any Test partnership in Test history, with 576 runs. Both records were surpassed in July 2006 by fellow Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene who scored 374 as part of a 624-run collaboration against South Africa. Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests during the Second Test of the home series against Bangladesh on September 20, 2005, marking the third Test cricketer to reach this milestone.

Following the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in April 2006, Jayasuriya revealed that he intends to retire from Test cricket. He regretted his decision soon after, but he joined the Sri Lankan cricket team in England in May 2006. Jayasuriya returned in the Third Test at Trent Bridge after missing the first two Tests.

He declared himself to retire from Test cricket after scoring 78 runs in day three of the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007. He had six fours in a one-over-James Anderson in the inning.

Jayasuriya set records for the fastest fifty (against Pakistan 17 balls), fastest 100 for Sri Lanka (against Pakistan 48 balls), and fastest 150 (against England in 95 balls) in ODI cricket. His fastest 50 years occurred in 19 years, where his half-century is regarded as the best in the world's toughest ever since he achieved this feat in an age where no fielding limits or power plays are available. With new limitations and other fielding constraints, it took 19 years to reach the fastest 50, with all excepted. However, he did not recover to AB de Villiers in the fastest fifty times. Jayasuriya is the only player of the ODI to have scored two consecutive scores in a row.

Jayasuriya's highest ODI score is 189 runs, scored against India in Sharjah in 2000. It's still the highest ODI score by a Sri Lankan, and it was the third-highestNote 1 in ODI history at the time of the innings. The most recent ODI score is now the 11th highest ODI score of all time, and the highest by a Sri Lankan.

Before losing to Shahid Afridi's 37 ball century, Jayasuriya had been the previous record holder for the fastest century (off 48 runs). In world cricket, this is the first century to have scored in less than 50 balls. Corey Anderson of New Zealand (36 balls), which is now owned by AB de Villiers of South Africa with 31 ball century. He has also set the world record for most ODI sixes (445 ODIs), which was surpassed by Shahid Afridi during the 2010 Asia Cup match against Bangladesh. He was 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 has 28 centuries, the fourth-highest in ODIs. He had the most runs in an ODI over (30 runs; he's done this twice), and he was the first batsman to score over 30 runs in an over. Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa is now owning this record (36 runs in a over).

He scored 152 off 99 balls in the final match during a one-day Natwest series in May 2006 in England, including scoring 152 off 99 balls. He and Upul Tharanga (109) put on 286 runs for the first wicket in the innings, a new record. Sri Lanka whitewashed England for the first time in their home country by winning the series 5–0, with Jayasuriya's batting debut winning the Man of the Series award.

Sri Lankan Sri Lankan officials travelled to the Netherlands for a two-day series following the Natwest Trophy. Jayasuriya scored 157 off 104 balls in Sri Lanka's first game, defeating Australia's 438/9 in March 2006. Sri Lanka won the match by 195 runs. On a personal note, the innings was his fourth straight score over 150 plus, his second in a row, and only one in ODI history to reach this record.

In the 2007 Cricket World Cup, held in the West Indies, he scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries. As he was refused for the ODIs in the West Indies in 2008, his one-day service was all but over. However, a remarkable show in the IPL, with the third highest run-getter with 514 runs, prompted his country's sports minister to intervene in his pick for the Asia Cup. Under pressure, he played a key role in Sri Lanka's championship triumph with a blistering century. After being recalled to the One-day and Twenty-20 squads for Sri Lanka's 2011 tour of England and Scotland, his international career has been revived at the age of 41.

On his 39th birthday, Jayasuriya scored a century against Bangladesh in 2008 Asia Cup. With this century, he became the third cricketer out of four overall to reach an ODI century on a birthday. Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar, two Indians, were among the century's best performers before Jayasuriya's to win the century. Blackcap Ross Taylor, the last one to score a century on his birthday, is the last one to reach a century on his birthday. ESPNCricinfo ranked him as the Best ODI Batting Performance of 2008 by his 125 in the finals.

Jayasuriya managed to break with Kookaburra bats by wielding a branded Reebok sponsored bat during the 2007 International Cricket World Twenty2020. In this tournament, he scored two-centuries in the group stages against New Zealand and Kenya. Having been pounded for 64 runs in a maximum of 4 overs, he also has a questionable history with James Anderson for the most expensive figures in a Twenty20 international. Jayasuriya was involved in Sri Lanka's 3–2 One Day International series loss to England in 2004, despite limited success and then losing by 2–0 in Australia's 2nd Test series. Jayasuriya revealed in December 2007 that he had signed for Warwickshire for the Twenty20 Cup.

He joined the Mumbai Indians in April 2008 to compete in the Indian Premier League T20. Jayasuriya recovered his position in the one-day team after being suspended for the West Indies tour after scoring a spectacular 114 not out of 48 balls for the Mumbai Indians against Chennai. He was selected in the Cricinfo IPL XI for his 2008 debuts. He continued his century by hitting a 17-ball 48 not out over the Kolkata Knight Riders' record of 67 in just the 6th over, resulting in the biggest win in Twenty20 history in terms of balls remaining. Worcestershire has signed them for their Twenty2020 campaign in 2010. Jayasuriya competed for the Ruhuna Rhinos in the qualifying round of the 2011 Champions League at the age of 42. Jayasuriya appeared for the Khulna Royal Bengals in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League in February 2012, and later that year, he played for the Kandurata Warriors in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League.

In 1996, Jayasuriya was selected as the World's Top Cricketer in 1996, and he was named as one of the year's Top Cricketers. He served as the captain of Sri Lanka's cricket team in 38 test matches and 117 one-day internationals from 1999 to 2003. Sri Lanka was led by Jayasuriya to the knockout stage of the 2003 cricket world cup, but the captaincy resigned after losing to Australia in the semi-finals. He was also an excellent all-rounder with a high batting average in both Test cricket and One Day International cricket, as well as a high batting success in One Day Internationals, as well as a high batting success in One Day Internationals.

He had a decent bowling average and an economy rate as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He regularly helped to reduce the workloads of current Sri Lankan strike bowlers Muttiah Murancharan and Chaminda Valianta Vaas. Jayasuriya took more than 400 wickets in international cricket in One Day Internationals at the end of his career. Jayasuriya was also a good infielder, with a report published by Cricinfo in late 2005 that showed that he had the seventh highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket, according to his seventh highest success rate.

Coaching career

Sanath completed his international ban from cricket before taking up his first coaching role with Mulgrave Cricket Club, a third-tier Australian cricket club in Melbourne, Victoria's Eastern Cricket Association. Tillekaratne Dilshan, his former opening partner, had convinced him to join the Mulgrave cricket team when they both competed together for the Sri Lanka Legends team in the second half of the 2020–21 Road Safety World Series.

Records and career achievements

The Bold ones are World Records.

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After a narrow Ashes win over Edgbaston, Bazball should not be concerned

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 24, 2023
BOOTH BOOTH: Surrey's Alistair Brown was selected to open for England in a one-day series against India in 1996. One national newspaper branded him a "clown" after starting with a hit-and-miss 37 off 52 balls at The Oval and called him a "clown." 'Unicycle' and'red nose' were also mentioned. Brown's offence was to shoot a few shots in keeping with the recent World Cup in South Asia, where Sanath Jayasuriya had pinch-hit Sri Lanka all the way to the trophy. Even though Brown made a century against India three days later at Old Trafford, where he was named player of the match, English cricket was not in the mood for such frivolity. It was his last ODI for 18 months. He played a few games after that, but he died a premature death - a singular talent sacrificed on the altar of mistrust.

England are thrashed by Australia as David Warner century helps hosts to a 221-run win

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 22, 2022
When England's unloved one-day series in Australia came to a conclusion today, they lost by 221 runs, the heaviest defeat in their history. The contrast with the T20 World Cup final at the same venue nine days ago may not have been more telling than England's batsmen who fell to 142 for five out of 48 overs in reaction to the Australians' ferocious 355 for five from 48 overs.
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