Sanath Jayasuriya

Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, captain, cricket administrator and coach, born on 30 June 1969, widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in One Day International cricket. With his opening partner Romesh Kaluwitharana he is credited with revolutionising one-day batting in the mid-1990s, and he was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup, in which he was named Most Valuable Player. He captained Sri Lanka from 1999 to 2003, is the only player to score over 10,000 runs and take more than 300 wickets in a single format of international cricket, and was one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year for 1997. He retired from Test cricket in December 2007 and from limited-overs cricket in June 2011, and was elected to parliament from Matara District in 2010.