Sanath Jayasuriya dropped from Sri Lanka Cricket contract
Finally 41 years old Sanath Teran Jayasuriya reached an end of his career with the Sri Lanka Cricket Board as the board announced curtains for the prolific cricketer. The SLC is busy in finalizing the central contracts of the players of national cricket team and the Lankan cricketing veteran failed to get his central contract revised with the board.
The cricket fans were shocked when they came to know about the omission of the senior most member of the Lankan cricket Parliament http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sanath-Teran-Jayasuriya-c88467 from the central contract list. Former captain of Sri Lanka, Aravinda de Silva was leading the panel of selectors that was deciding the contracts of Sri Lankan players for the coming season 2010/11. The panel jointly requested the Sri Lanka cricket hierarchy to exclude the cricketing veteran from the list of players that have been contracted by the board for the 2010/11 season.
The central Contracts of the Lankan cricketers were expired at the end of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Jayasuriya made his test debut almost twenty years ago on 22 February 1991 when he played against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at Hamilton. He turned out for Sri Lanka in 110 Test matches scoring 6973 runs at an average of 40.07. His 16 years test career saw him recording 14 hundreds and 31 half-centuries. In 1997 Jayasuriya also recorded a triple century of his test career when he scored 340 runs while playing against India at the R. Premadasa Stadium. His 340 is the highest Test score of any Sri Lankan so far. On September 20, 2005, the veteran Lankan cricketer played his 100th Test and became the first Sri Lankan player to make the Lankan test squad hundred times.
The left hand opening batsman of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 was more fruitful in the limited over cricket specifically One Day Internationals. He played for his country in 444 ODIs at an average of 32.43, scoring 13,428 runs. The aggressive Jayasuriya also claims the fastest ODI fifty that he piled up off just 17 deliveries. He was also the record holder of fastest century (off just 48 balls) since 1996 when the Boom Boom Afridi over took his record by smashing a century off just 36 balls in his ODI debut.
The top five contracted players including the current captain of Sri Lankan cricket team Kumar Sangakkara, vice captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Muttiah-Muralitharan-c78157, former captain Mahela Jayawardena, T.M. Dilshan and Thilan Samaraweera all have been contracted under the Category 1. Muralitharan, however, after announcing his retirement from the test cricket would be paid only 40 per cent of his contract, but, still will be rated among the top five contracted Lankan cricketers.
The retirement of Murali after the Gale test has put the selectors ponder upon the selection of vice captain for the second test against India which will start on July 26 at the Sinhalese Sports Club Grounds. The probable names for the vice captaincy after Murali include the next senior most cricketer Dilshan and steady Thilan Samaraweera. At the same time one cannot neglect the 23 years old Angelo Mathews for the job. Promising all-rounder has been placed in the category III, leaving behind several seniors as well.
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