Gampalage Shehan Naveendra De Fonseka Gunawarna Jayasuriya, or commonly Shehan Jayasuriya (born 12 September 1991), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for Chilaw Marians in Sri Lankan domestic cricket. He is a quick-scoring left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He was born in Colombo, and attended Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa.
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| Full name | Gampalage Shehan Naveendra De Fonseka Gunawarna Jayasuriya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 September 1991 Colombo, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batting all-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 167) | 1 November 2015 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 17 September 2018 v Afghanistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 57) | 1 August 2015 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 17 March 2016 v Afghanistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016-17–present | Chilaw Marians Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Police Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | Khulna Titans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 17 September 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic career
Jayasuriya made his first-class cricket debut in October 2009 for Police Sports Club against Moratuwa Sports Club. His highest first-class score is 237, which he made off 218 balls for Chilaw Marians in their 378-run victory over Bloomfield in 2016-17. In 2017-18, against Ragama, he opened both batting and bowling and dominated the match, taking 7 for 22 and 3 for 66 and scoring 80 in an innings victory; no other batsman in the match reached 40.
In March 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. The following month, he was also named in Colombo's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. He was the leading run-scorer for Colombo in the tournament, with 326 runs in seven matches, and was named as the player of the series.[7]
In August 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[8]
International career
He made his Twenty20 International debut for Sri Lanka against Pakistan on 1 August 2015.[9] He scored 40 runs off 32 balls including 3 fours and 2 sixes on his debut and took his first international wicket by bowling Shahid Afridi out. However, the match ended with a defeat for Sri Lanka. He made his One Day International debut for Sri Lanka against the West Indies on 1 November 2015, he got out for nought in his first innings, bowled by Sunil Narine. [10]
