{"id":4017,"date":"2018-01-08T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2018-01-08T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:57:02","slug":"sanath-jayasuriya-crickets-ex-master-blaster-struggling-walk-nowadays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/sanath-jayasuriya-crickets-ex-master-blaster-struggling-walk-nowadays\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanath Jayasuriya, cricket\u2019s ex master blaster, struggling to walk nowadays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanath Jayasuriya, one of Sri Lanka\u2019s legendary all-rounders, was nicknamed the \u2018Matara Marauder\u2019 during his playing days.<\/h2>\n

\"Sanath<\/p>\n

At his peak, he used rip apart the best bowling attacks and with his explosive batting. He had acquired a reputation of being the most destructive batsman of his period.<\/p>\n

However, the 48-year-old is currently undergoing tough times after his retirement. The former chairman of selectors is currently suffering from a knee injury so severe that he is unable to walk without crutches.<\/p>\n

According to reports, Jayasuriya, who played a key role in Sri Lanka\u2019s maiden World Cup win in 1996 will be travelling to Melbourne for treatment having suffered the injury for quite some time now.<\/p>\n

The reports have added that the entire procedure of treatment and recovery will take up to one month, and Jayasuriya will remain under observation during this period.<\/p>\n

In a career spanning two decades for Sri Lanka, Jayasuriya played a critical role in Sri Lanka\u2019s rise as a power to reckon with. He played 110 Tests, 445 ODIs and 31 T20Is. He remains the second highest run-scorer for the island nation with 13,364 runs 28 centuries and 68 fifties at 32.51.<\/p>\n

Jayasuriya also enjoyed T20 cricket towards the end of his career. In 31 T20Is, the left-handed batsman scored 629 runs at 23.29 with four half-centuries. A handy left-arm spinner, Jayasuriya claimed as many as 323 wickets in ODIs, 98 in Tests and 19 scalps in T20Is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanath Jayasuriya, one of Sri Lanka\u2019s legendary all-rounders, was nicknamed the \u2018Matara Marauder\u2019 during his playing days. At his peak, he used rip apart the best bowling attacks and with his explosive batting. He had acquired a reputation of being the most destructive batsman of his period. However, the 48-year-old is currently undergoing tough times …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5824,5823],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-sanath-jayasuriya","tag-sri-lankas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}