- Represented Sri Lanka in more than 350 ODIs, scoring over 10000 runs and more taking 300 wickets. Also played 110 tests, scoring 6973 runs at an average of just over 40.
- Captained Sri Lanka in 39 tests, winning 18 of them. However, he resigned from captaincy altogether after Sri Lanka experienced overseas series losses in England and South Africa and were eliminated in the semifinals of the 2003 World Cup.
- A key contributor in Sri Lanka's triumph in the 1996 World Cup with both bat and ball, he was declared Man-of-the-Tournament was for his 221 runs and 7 wickets.
- First Sri Lankan and at that point only the second Asian batsman(after Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad) to score a triple century when he registered 340 against India at Colombo in 1997.
- Wisden broke it's century old tradition by naming him one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year 1997 despite not having played any season of English County Cricket prior. Thereafter, Jayasuriya was selected to represent Somerset in the County.
- Cited Wasim Akram, Curtly Ambrose, Glenn McGrath and Courtney Walsh as the most dangerous bowlers he ever faced.
- His individual highest ODI innings of 189 against India in the finals of the Coca-Cola Cup at Sharjah in 2001 happened to be on his wife Sandra's birthday. The innings was also voted by Wisden as the 3rd greatest individual ODI batting performance of all-time.
- Debuted in 1989 as a spin bowler before transforming into a batting all-rounder by 1994.
- His 58 Man-of-the-Match awards combining all formats of the game makes him the third highest recipient of the honour, behind Indians Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli while he was Man-of-the-Series 13 times, the fourth highest for any player. [December 2022].
- Represented Mumbai Indians in the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008. Despite already being 39 years at that point, he was one of the franchise's star performers ending as the third highest run scorer of the tournament and one of the only 3 centurions when he registered a match-winning 114 in just 66 deliveries against Chennai Super Kings. However, the side fell one win short of a spot in the semi-finals and finished 5th with 7 wins and 7 losses.
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