The Matara Mauler

Image Courtesy © Getty Images   After losing the first 4 matches, Engand scored 321 in the fifth match and hoped that they are certainly in the hunt. But Jayasuriya had other plans. He simply destroyed the English bowling attack and Sri Lanka won the match with 75 balls to spare. He was 37 at that …


Sanath Jayasuriya, Wills Quadrangular Tournament, Pakistan, 1997

It won’t be ironic if I say that T20 is more of batsmen’s game. Because things are prepared like that with shorter grounds, more fielding restrictions and more restrictions on bowlers’ array. During the seventies and eighties seldom you could see batsmen’s strike rate above nineties with the exception of Viv Richards and Kapil Dev. …