Jayasuriya Roundup

Sanath Jayasuriya recently announced his retirement from International Test Cricket. It brings to an end a rather amazing career. He has scored just under 7000 runs in 110 matches and picked up 98 wickets in the same. He is a triple centurion, having scored the massive 340 against India, two other 200s and has 10 other 100s along with 31 50s. His best performances have come against Bangaladesh, India and Pakistan against who he averages well above 50.

I did write in an earlier blog that Sanath Jayasuriya is among the fastest players in the world. It is also well know that he is a really good six hitter. Lets actually take a good look at how many sixes has he actually hit.

In ODIs, he holds the record for hitting the highest sixes (11) in an innings and shares the same with Shahid Afridi. He also did manage to score 7 sixes in another innings.

Max sixes in an Innings

Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Team	Opposition	Match Date	Scorecard
ST Jayasuriya	134	65	11	11	206.15	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	04/02/96	ODI # 1088
Shahid Afridi	102	40	6	11	255	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	10/04/96	ODI # 1125
ST Jayasuriya	109	87	7	7	125.28	Sri Lanka	v Bangladesh	03/21/07	ODI # 2546

Continuing in ODI mode, he also holds the record for the maximum sixes in career. He has hit 245 sixes scoring more than 2 sixes in every 100 runs he has scored. Considering that Shahid Afridi is scoring sixes at a much faster rate and is second only to Jayasuriya at the moment, he might take over from Jayasuriya anytime.

Aggregate sixes in ODIs

Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	Ave	4s	6s	Runs in 6s/100 Runs	6s/Innings
ST Jayasuriya (Asia/SL)	403	392	12207	32.63	1348	245	12.04	0.63
Shahid Afridi (Asia/ICC/Pak)	249	237	5239	23.28	491	237	27.14	1
SC Ganguly (Asia/India)	311	300	11363	41.02	1122	190	10.03	0.63
SR Tendulkar (India)	407	397	15962	44.33	1747	166	6.24	0.42
CL Cairns (ICC/NZ)	215	193	4950	29.46	345	153	18.55	0.79
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Asia/Pak)	378	350	11739	39.52	969	144	7.36	0.41
AC Gilchrist (Aus/ICC)	277	269	9297	36.03	1130	143	9.23	0.53
RT Ponting (Aus/ICC)	287	278	10701	43.85	940	133	7.46	0.48
BC Lara (ICC/WI)	299	289	10405	40.48	1035	133	7.67	0.46
IVA Richards (WI)	187	167	6721	47	600	126	11.25	0.75
Wasim Akram (Pak)	356	280	3717	16.52	247	121	19.53	0.43
HH Gibbs (SA)	220	213	7222	36.65	820	115	9.55	0.54
JH Kallis (Afr/ICC/SA)	269	255	9314	44.77	722	113	7.28	0.44
Abdul Razzaq (Asia/Pak)	231	198	4465	29.96	333	103	13.84	0.52
PA de Silva (SL)	308	296	9284	34.9	712	102	6.59	0.34
RL Powell (WI)	109	100	2085	24.82	185	75	21.58	0.75
JM Kemp (Afr/SA)	85	66	1512	31.5	98	60	23.81	0.91

* There are players who have hit more sixes than Powell and Kemp, but they have been specially included here because of the fast rate at which there are hitting sixes.

In Test matches however, he has scored 59 sixes, which is impressive, but falls well short of the current record of 100 sixes by Adam Gilchrist. He has also scored 10 sixes in T20s, however he falls short of 15 sixes held by Yuvraj Singh.

If you combine the three forms, Test, ODI and T20s, Jayasuriya again comes trumps. He has scored an impressive 314 sixes. Again he is being closely followed by Shahid Afridi and could overtake him anytime.

Maximum 6s in combined careers of ODIs, Tests and T20s

Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	6s	Runs in 6s/100 Runs
ST Jayasuriya (Asia/SL)	520	587	19426	314	9.7
Shahid Afridi (Asia/ICC/Pak)	285	292	7080	295	25
AC Gilchrist (Aus/ICC)	381	411	14964	255	10.22
CL Cairns (ICC/NZ)	279	299	8273	240	17.41
SC Ganguly (Asia/India)	410	461	17709	240	8.13
BC Lara (ICC/WI)	430	521	22358	221	5.93
IVA Richards (WI)	308	349	15261	210	8.26
SR Tendulkar (India)	550	627	27261	208	4.58