- Born
- Birth nameSanath Teran Jayasuriya
- Nicknames
- The Matara Mauler
- Master Blaster
- Little Dynamite
- Height5′ 7¾″ (1.72 m)
- Sanath Jayasuriya was born on June 30, 1969 in Matara, Ceylon.
- Lofted drives over the covers while executing pull shots.
- Represented Sri Lanka in more than 350 ODIs, scoring over 10000 runs and more taking 300 wickets. Also played 110 tests, scoring 6973 runs at an average of just over 40.
- Captained Sri Lanka in 39 tests, winning 18 of them. However, he resigned from captaincy altogether after Sri Lanka experienced overseas series losses in England and South Africa and were eliminated in the semifinals of the 2003 World Cup.
- A key contributor in Sri Lanka's triumph in the 1996 World Cup with both bat and ball, he was declared Man-of-the-Tournament was for his 221 runs and 7 wickets.
- First Sri Lankan and at that point only the second Asian batsman(after Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad) to score a triple century when he registered 340 against India at Colombo in 1997.
- Wisden broke it's century old tradition by naming him one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year 1997 despite not having played any season of English County Cricket prior. Thereafter, Jayasuriya was selected to represent Somerset in the County.
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