Moving on to the 1996 World Cup – can you talk about the knock against India in Delhi? The Delhi match was unique. When India got 275, we never expected to win. But once Kalu [Romesh Kaluwitharana] and I went after the new ball, India didn’t know what was going on. My 79 came off [...]
No mere smash-and-grab artist, Sanath Jayasuriya has revolutionised opening and done it with a shy exuberance and no hint of swagger Sanath Jayasuriya has been at once a devastating hitter and amongst the foremost opening batsmen of his period. It is no mean combination. His career, his very life, has told of a man given [...]
Sanath Jayasuriya‘s cricketing future has been put in the balance with Sri Lanka’s selectors saying today that his days as an opener are effectively over and that following the upcoming tour of India he will be picked on performance alone. Jayasuriya, 40, has been picked in the one-day squad as an allrounder who can bat [...]
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka’s captain, is not out for revenge against India after the recent history the two teams have shared. Sri Lanka surrendered their last two home series to India but scored an emphatic victory on Saturday, one that left Sangakkara pleased at the way the team had shaped up. “I think you learn [...]
Driven by desperation, and fuelled by self-belief, Sanath Jayasuriya and Thilina Kandamby, in their own way, made their statement Like the bad guy in any number of horror flicks, who keeps coming back no matter how many times you hurt him, Sanath Jayasuriya just refuses to go away. Asked by a journalist going into this [...]
Has the oldest swinger in town lost his mojo? That’s the leading question New Zealand’s cricketers were dead batting as speculation mounts over the future of Sri Lanka’s original master blaster, Sanath Jayasuriya. Now on the wrong side of 40, Jayasuriya has been unable to get to double figures in three innings against New Zealand, [...]
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