Sanath Jayasuriya

1165 runs from 38 matches, 120 highest, 34 average, 90 SR, 3 hundreds and 6 fifties.Although he did not score a century in Sri Lankas victorious 1996 campaign, Jayasuriya, along with the pocket powerhouse Romesh Kaluwitharana, pretty much reinvented the art of opening the batting in ODIs. The southpaws 221 runs at an average of 36 may look nothing special, until one heeds his strike rate an enormously healthy.