Sananth Jayasuriya is one of the unique personalties in Inetrnational cricket, who has literally liquidated age constraint. In his ripe age of 39, sanath Jayasuriya is still integral tombs of Srilanka ODI and T 20 line up.He made his ODI debut in year 1989 against Australia and his test debut in year 1991 against New Zealand. He has played 110 test matches and 432 ODI since then, scoring 6973 and 13, 151 runs in test and ODI respectively. He is one of the best all – rounder especially in ODI with impressive 331 wickets tally along with 13, 000 plus runs, which can easily earn him a place in any International cricket team. It’s not surprising he holds the record for highest individual score of 193, which came against India.
He took the world by storm in 1996 world cup, through his fearless and destructive approach at top of order, with his teammate Romesh Kaluwitharana, which was one of the few highlights of world cup. As expected they thumped Aussies in final and he was one of the principal architects, for world cup win.
He commenced to show form in test matches also, after the world cup impetus, where he has scored some 14 centuries in his 110 test matches, with an average of around 40. He has got 28 ODI centuries under his name with strike rate of 91.13. He has a much more impressive strike rate of 150’s in his thirteen T 20 matches, he has played.
He was ascended to captaincy role, after dumping of Arjuna Ranatuga as captain due to world cup debacle. He captained the side till 2003 and resigned after Srilanka lost the cup badly.
He had a golden period in 2004, where he scored a brilliant second innings hundred, against mighty Australians, which nearly levelled series and also his nerve cracking double hundred against Pakistan in Faisalabad and he followed it up with twin centuries in Asia cup.
He announced his retirement in 2006, but soon retrieved it back. He announced his retirement from test matches in his first test against England in Kandy in 2007 – 08 series with a brilliant 78 in his last innings.
Many experts thought, that his career was over, when he was dropped from Srilankan squad to west Indies, but he showcased his class in Indian Premiere league first season, where he collated 514 runs for his Mumbai Indians franchise and ended up the tournament as third highest run getter with highest number of sixes in tournament.
He was selected in squad of Asia cup, where he scored a brilliant century in finals against India, to stage a renowned victory. At age of forty, he is all set to rock the T 20 world cup, which is going to held in England, later this June and also 2nd edition of IPL, which is going to be held in south Africa. Certainly ‘old is gold’.
He was ascended to captaincy role, after dumping of Arjuna Ranatuga as captain due to world cup debacle. He captained the side till 2003 and resigned after Srilanka lost the cup badly.
He had a golden period in 2004, where he scored a brilliant second innings hundred, against mighty Australians, which nearly levelled series and also his nerve cracking double hundred against Pakistan in Faisalabad and he followed it up with twin centuries in Asia cup.
He announced his retirement in 2006, but soon retrieved it back. He announced his retirement from test matches in his first test against England in Kandy in 2007 – 08 series with a brilliant 78 in his last innings.
Many experts thought, that his career was over, when he was dropped from Srilankan squad to west Indies, but he showcased his class in Indian Premiere league first season, where he collated 514 runs for his Mumbai Indians franchise and ended up the tournament as third highest run getter with highest number of sixes in tournament.
He was selected in squad of Asia cup, where he scored a brilliant century in finals against India, to stage a renowned victory. At age of forty, he is all set to rock the T 20 world cup, which is going to held in England, later this June and also 2nd edition of IPL, which is going to be held in south Africa. Certainly ‘old is gold’.
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