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IPL playerSri Lanka2008 to 2010

Sanath Jayasuriya

On scorecards: ST Jayasuriya · Right-hand bat

3
Seasons
30
Matches
768
Runs
SR 144.3
13
Wickets
econ 7.96
0
Titles
2
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2008 to 2010 · Sources

Sanath Jayasuriya, a batter, played three IPL seasons, all of them with Mumbai Indians.

The arrival

Sanath Jayasuriya arrived through the auction: Mumbai Indians paid ₹3.90 cr (US$975k), against a base price of ₹1 cr, at the very first IPL auction.

That first season brought 14 matches, 514 runs and 4 wickets at 7.57 an over. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2008, for Mumbai Indians: 514 runs at an average of 42.8, striking at 166.3 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 1 hundred and 2 fifties, and a highest score of 114 not out.

With the ball, the best season was 2009, for Mumbai Indians: 7 wickets at 8.58 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.28, with best figures of 2 for 3.

One franchise

Sanath Jayasuriya spent the whole IPL career with Mumbai Indians, from 2008 to 2010.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Sanath Jayasuriya struck at 144.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 124.6, so Sanath Jayasuriya scored about 20 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 74% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 84 fours and 39 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 47.2% of the balls Sanath Jayasuriya faced were dot balls, a higher share than 99% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 13.6 balls, and a four every 6.3.

With the ball, 13 wickets in 294 deliveries, at 7.96 runs an over against a league rate of 7.73 for the same seasons: 0.23 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 4 catches and 5 run-outs.

At the auction

Sanath Jayasuriya went under the hammer once. The price was ₹3.90 cr (US$975k), paid by Mumbai Indians in 2008, more than 3 times the base price.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Sanath Jayasuriya made 30 IPL appearances, the last for Mumbai Indians in 2010, and won 2 player-of-the-match awards.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each IPL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
SeasonTeamMRunsHSAvgSR50/100WktsEconBestCtPOTM
2008Mumbai Indians14514114*42.8166.32/147.573/1422
2009Mumbai Indians122215218.4115.12/078.582/32
2010Mumbai Indians433238.3106.50/027.562/170

Franchise journey

Ball-by-ball detail

Career totals from ball-by-ball data, not split by season; included only where they agree exactly with the runs and wickets on this page.
MetricValue
Dot balls faced47.2%
Balls per four6.3
Balls per six13.6
Dot balls bowled28.2%
Balls per wicket22.6
Catches4
Run-outs5
Stumpings0

At the auction

From the IPL auction archive; prices in lakh and crore of rupees, with the US dollar price for the auctions that were conducted in dollars (2008 to 2013).
AuctionSetBase priceResult
2008Set B₹1 crSold to Mumbai Indians for ₹3.90 cr (US$975k)

Sources