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Information About Sanath Jayasuriya in 2016
Sanath Jayasuriya is a household name in Sri Lanka; he is
what Usain Bolt is to athletics, or what Lionel Messi is to football. At a time
when Cricket was viewed as the game for powerhouses like Australia, England, South
Africa, etc, he helped catapult Sri Lanka to the international stage. He was as
tactful as he was aggressive, skillful as he was brutal. He was every bowler’s
nightmare. In the 1996 cricket world cup, Sanath left an indelible mark in the
way one day international tests are done. Between 1999 and 2003, he was the
captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team, a time that the country was able to
showcase its immense talent and skills in the sport.
Sanath Jayasuriya has been described as the greatest cricketer
that Sri Lanka has ever produced; others have gone as far as to term him as the
cricketer of the century, and such colorful names. These may seem like
exaggerated monikers to anyone who hasn’t acquainted themselves sufficiently
with the achievements of this legend. In one particular instance, during a one
day international, Sanath was able to score over 12,000 runs, then proceed to
capture over 300 wickets! No other cricketer has achieved this in the history
of the sport.
Sanath was to retire from active cricket in 2011, and was
selected as the chairman of the selection committee of cricket in 2013, in Sri
Lanka. During his tenure as the head of the selection committee, the country
was to win the ICC World Twenty20 in 2014, something the country had never
achieved before.
Life
after Cricket;
After retiring from active cricket, Sanath rode on his
popularity to contest for public office. In the 2010 general elections of Sri
Lanka, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Matara district, which is his
native district. He won by a huge margin, and would get nominated to serve as
the deputy minister for local government under the government of the then
powerful president Mahinda Rajapaska.
However, Sanath did not contest for any post in the general elections of
2015 and since then, he has taken a low profile.
Rumors have been rife in the Sri Lankan tabloids and
gossip magazines, that he had married a popular air hostess, Maleeka Sirisenage.
However, these rumors are unsubstantiated, and both Sanath and Maleeka have
denounced the rumors. In fact, Maleeka has openly clarified that she is soon
wedding someone else, and that Sanath is too old to be her husband, leave alone
the fact that he has 3 kids from a previous marriage.
