Sanath jayasooriya

Personal life

Jayasuriya was born to Dunstan and Breeda Jayasuriya in Matara and had his education at St. Servatius' College, Matara. It was there, that his cricketing talents were nourished by the Principal, G.L. Galappathy and coach Lionel Wagasinghe^[6]. He has an elder brother, Chandana Jayasuriya.

His wife, Sandra De Silva is a former flight attendant of Sri Lankan Airlines. Sanath and Sandra have 3 children. Sanath Jayasuriya was also one of the judges at the Miss World contest for the year 1996, which took place at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Sanath Jayasuriya is the first cricketer to be appointed as a UN Goodwill Ambassador (by UNAIDS, Geneva) for his commitment to prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people in Sri Lanka.

He entered politics in February 2010 as the candidate for Matara District. His party is the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Jayasuriya says that he intends to continue playing cricket if he is elected. Jayasuriya was declared winner in absentia with 74,352 votes in the Matara district, while playing for the Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League.

International Records

• He has amassed the fourth highest ODI score, 189 runs, with Viv Richards.
• He currently holds the record for fastest fifty in ODIs, scored off just 17 balls.

• Jayasuriya jointly held the record for most sixes in an ODI innings, 11, with Shahid Afridi. He hit the sixes during an innings of 134 from 65 balls against Pakistan, in Singapore. This record was broken by Xavier Marshall of West Indies when he hit 12 sixes in an innings against Canada on 22 August,2008.

• Jayasuriya holds the record for second highest fours in an ODI innings, 24 fours.

• He is currently the second highest run scorer in ODIs with 13,377 runs. (Sachin Tendulkar is first with 17,598).

• He is the only batsman in history to have two consecutive ODI scores above 150.

• Jayasuriya holds the record for the fastest 150 in an ODI innings, off 95 balls against England in 2006.

• He is currently the third highest centurion in ODIs with 28 under his belt (only Ponting (29) and Tendulkar (46) have more).

• He held the record for the fastest century in ODIs, scored off just 48 balls, before Shahid Afridi scored a century of 37 balls against Sri Lanka.

• He holds the record of most number of 6s in ODIs. He currently has 270 sixes in his career.

• He held the record for scoring the most runs of an ODI over, 30, a feat which he achieved twice, against Pakistan and New Zealand. Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa broke the record by hitting 6 sixes in an over from Daan van Bunge, against the Netherlands.

• Jayasuriya has second most Man of the Match awards (47) in ODI cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (61).

• He was also the first player to play in 400 ODIs matches.

• He is the third batsman in Test cricket to hit 6 fours in one over. He did this against England in his last Test innings.

• He is the oldest player to have scored a ODI century, performing the feat against India at Dumballa, Sri Lanka on 28 January 2009. He was 39 years 212 days, beating Geoffrey Boycott's record of 39 years 51 days.

• Probably the most remarkable of all of his records stretches across all three recognized forms of international cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket team holds the record for the Highest Innings Totals in Tests, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. In each of these Highest Innings Totals, Sanath Jayasuriya was the leading scorer for Sri Lanka.

Top Scorers in World Record Team Totals
Format	World Record Team Total	Team	Top Scorer	Score	Date
Test	952/6d	Sri Lanka	Sanath Jayasuriya	340	2-6 August 1997
ODI	443/9	Sri Lanka	Sanath Jayasuriya	157	4 July 2006
T20I	260/6	Sri Lanka	Sanath Jayasuriya	88	14 September 2007