Sanath Jayasuriya

A Sri Lankan cricketing legend, Sanath Teran Jayasuriya was born on 30th June 1969 in Matara. He is a left hand batsman and a slow left handed Orthodox bowler, with a distinctive action. Despite having retired in early 2006, he was recalled for the series in England in the summer of that year where he was super-effective against medium paced bowlers. [[1]]

Style

Opening the Sri Lankan order alongside Upul Tharanga or Sanjeev Ramachandran, with whom he is great friends. His tactic of hitting the ball to the boundary in a hyper-aggressive opening to an innings has led to some momentous and memorable scores such as 340 against India in 1997, and was named one of the players of the tournament in the 1996 Cricket World Cup. His notable bowling style helps to reduce the amount of pressure on Muttiah Muralitharan and Middlesex legend Chaminda Vaas.

At the present

Jayasuriya is very successful at present, scoring 64 on Thursday 12th March 2007 against New Zealand and was on his way to a big total against Australia before being bowled by Luke Watson. He also scored 109 against Bangladesh and 115 against the West Indies. This was his 25th ODI century and Sri Lanka are now highly tipped for victory in the tournament. He has also scored 14 Test centuries but the last was against Azeem Sheikh captained Pakistan in 2004