Shehan Jayasuriya

Gampalage Shehan Naveendra De Fonseka Gunawarna Jayasuriya, or commonly Shehan Jayasuriya (Sinhala: ශෙහාන් ජයසූරිය; born 12 September 1991), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who played for Chilaw Marians in Sri Lankan domestic cricket. He is a quick-scoring left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in Colombo, and attended Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa. He announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in Sri Lanka on 8 January 2021 because of him moving to United States to live with his wife and her family.[1]

Shehan Jayasuriya
Personal information
Full name
Gampalage Shehan Naveendra De Fonseka Gunawarna Jayasuriya
Born (1991-09-12) 12 September 1991
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RoleBatting all-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 167)1 November 2015 v West Indies
Last ODI2 October 2019 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.31
T20I debut (cap 57)1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I6 March 2020 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2016/17–2021Chilaw Marians Cricket Club
2013Chittagong Kings
2013Kandurata Maroons
2009–2021Police Sports Club
2017Khulna Titans
2020Galle Gladiators
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 12 18 38 54
Runs scored 195 241 2,475 1,636
Batting average 21.66 15.06 39.91 32.72
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 4/17 3/11
Top score 96 40 195 114
Balls bowled 312 137 3,691 1,890
Wickets 3 3 85 44
Bowling average 92.33 71.00 26.72 31.13
5 wickets in innings 0 0 6 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/15 1/11 6/72 5/52
Catches/stumpings 1/– 4/– 24/– 20/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 January 2021
Medal record
Representing  Sri Lanka
Men's Cricket
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2014 IncheonTeam

Personal life

Sanath Jayasuriya is married to Sri Lankan actress Kaveesha Kavindi where the wedding was celebrated on 23 September 2020 in New York, USA.[2][3] She is the daughter of retired Sri Lankan film actress Dilani Abeywardana.[4]

Jayasuriya announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 8 January 2021 because of him moving to USA to be with his family and spending the rest of his life there.[5] In June 2021, Jayasuriya was selected in the players' draft ahead of the Minor League Cricket tournament.[6]

Domestic career

Jayasuriya made his first-class cricket debut in October 2009 for Police Sports Club against Moratuwa Sports Club. His highest first-class score is 237, which he made off 218 balls for Chilaw Marians in their 378-run victory over Bloomfield in 2016-17.[7] In 2017-18, against Ragama, he opened both batting and bowling and dominated the match, taking 7 for 22 and 3 for 66 and scoring 80 in an innings victory; no other batsman in the match reached 40.[8]

In March 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.[9][10] The following month, he was also named in Colombo's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[11] He was the leading run-scorer for Colombo in the tournament, with 326 runs in seven matches,[12] and was named as the player of the series.[13]

In August 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[14] In February 2019, Sri Lanka Cricket named him as the Player of the Tournament for the 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament.[15] In March 2019, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[16]

In January 2020, in the opening round of matches in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament, he scored a century for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club.[17] He finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer in the competition, with 385 runs in eight matches.[18]

In October 2020, he was drafted by the Galle Gladiators for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League.[19]

International career

As an all rounder, Jayasuriya made his Twenty20 International debut for Sri Lanka against Pakistan on 1 August 2015.[20] He scored 40 runs off 32 balls including 3 fours and 2 sixes on his debut and took his first international wicket by bowling Shahid Afridi out. However, the match ended with a defeat for Sri Lanka. He made his One Day International debut for Sri Lanka against the West Indies on 1 November 2015, he got out for nought in his first innings, bowled by Sunil Narine.[21]

In August 2019, he was named in a twenty-two man squad for Sri Lanka's Test series against New Zealand.[22][23] However, he was not named in the final fifteen-man squad for the first Test.[24] He was included to the T20I series against New Zealand in September 2019. He played in first two T20Is with modest results. In the last over of second T20I, he had a collision with Kusal Mendis at the boundary line. Jayasuriya was running from long on, and Mendis from midwicket, in order to intercept an aerial Mitchell Santner, he tripped up by the onrushing Mendis, and sent crashing into the boundary. Both players picked up knee injuries and rested from the third T20I.[25] In September 2019, he successfully got the spot in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the series against Pakistan.

During the second ODI against Pakistan on 30 September 2019, Jayasuriya scored his maiden ODI fifty. He got out for 96 runs in the match. However, along with Dasun Shanaka, they put up a record sixth-wicket stand of 177. This is the highest partnership against Pakistan in ODIs. However, Sri Lanka lost the match by 67 runs.[26]

Post-Sri Lanka career

On 8 January 2021, Jayasuriya announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in Sri Lanka.[27] In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the Minor League Cricket tournament in the United States following the players' draft.[28][29]

Note

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