jeevan mendis Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
jeevan mendis is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Balapuwaduge Manukulasuriya Amith Jeevan Mendis
Born
January 15, 1983, Colombo
Age
40 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Allrounder
Height
5ft 8in
Education
S' Thomas' College, Colombo
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 58 | 22 | 3 |
Inn | - | 44 | 15 | 3 |
Runs | - | 636 | 208 | 23 |
Avg | - | 18.71 | 18.91 | 7.67 |
SR | - | 82.7 | 119.54 | 85.19 |
HS | - | 72 | 43 | 12 |
NO | - | 10 | 4 | 0 |
100s | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | - | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4s | - | 48 | 18 | 0 |
6s | - | 13 | 6 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 58 | 22 | 3 |
Inn | - | 49 | 14 | 2 |
Balls | - | 1404 | 210 | 30 |
Runs | - | 1204 | 249 | 36 |
Wkt | - | 28 | 12 | 1 |
BBI | - | 15 / 3 | 24 / 3 | 16 / 3 |
BBM | - | 15 / 3 | 24 / 3 | 16 / 3 |
Eco | - | 5.15 | 7.11 | 7.2 |
Avg | - | 43.0 | 20.75 | 36.0 |
5W | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Barbados Tridents
- Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club
- Combined Provinces
- Delhi Daredevils
- Derbyshire
- Dhaka Division
- Kandurata
- Prime Bank Cricket Club
- Sinhalese Sports Club
- Sri Lanka A
- Sri Lanka Board XI
- Sri Lanka Under-19s
- Sydney Sixers
- Sylhet Thunder
- Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club
- Texas Chargers
- Tshwane Spartans
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He played for Sinhalese Sports Club in Sri Lanka's domestic circuit and though, he was consistent with the bat, he rarely got a chance to show his all-round skills. The switch to Tamil Union in 2008 turned out to be a turning point for him, as he was given ample opportunities to impress with the ball. He starred with both bat and ball to help Tamil Union become the limited overs champion. He scored 450 runs and took 26 wickets in the tournament, where he won the Man of the Finals and the Man of the Tournament awards. He followed it up with a stellar show in the Premier League, scoring 600 runs and taking 36 wickets to become the Man-of-the-Tournament once again. He was rewarded with a call-up to the Sri Lanka 'A' team to face Canada and Holland.
He was then picked in the ODI squad for the triangular series, involving India and Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe. Though he didn't get to bat on his debut, he impressed with the ball, picking up two wickets for 12 runs from four overs. He missed out on a World Cup berth as Sri Lanka had abundant spin resources in Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis and Rangana Herath, but returned to the ODI squad for the tour to England post the retirement of the legendary, Muralitharan. Mendis usually bats in the top-order for his domestic teams, but the presence of senior players like Sangakkara and Jayawardene left him with no option, but to play in the middle-order.
Mendis proved his worth in T20Is when he cracked a breezy 43 not out in the 2012 World T20 in Sri Lanka. He also delivered some tidy spells with the ball in Sri Lanka's run to the final. The upshot was that Delhi and the Sydney Sixers hired his services for their T20 campaigns. Additionally, he has represented the Dhaka Dynamites in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Cup.
Unfortunately, Mendis could not sustain the intensity, as a result of which he was in and out of the national team. The rapid rise of fellow allrounders - Thisara Perera, Angelo Mathews and Sachitra Senanayake - put him on the back burners. However, Jeevan kept churning out commendable performances in the Dhaka Premier Division matches.
After playing a few ODIs in 2013, Jeevan was recalled to the side for the England games. He was subsequently included in the side for the 2014-15 New Zealand tour as well. His talent and reputation as an all-rounder ensured that he was in the periphery of the selectors right through to the 2015 World Cup Down Under, with sporadic appearances in the national colours.
After nearly three years in the wilderness, in a surprise move, the selectors brought him back into the national side in February 2018 for the T20I series versus Bangladesh, and he churned out decent performances with both bat and ball. He further took this form into the Mzanzi Super League for the Tshwane Spartans where he ended up as the joint highest wicket-taker with 16 scalps to his name.
In the domestic 2018-19 Premier League tournament, he took picked up a nine-wicket-haul in an innings, which turned out to be the best bowling figures of that season. Soon after, he made it to Sri Lanka's 2019 50-over World Cup squad.
Currently at the twilight of his career and at an age of 37, it seems unlikely that Mendis will get another national opportunity, but he continues to be a globetrotter with the various mushrooming T20 leagues.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Jeewan Mendis comes from a cricketing family, with his father Jagath and brother Tharindu also playing for his school, St Thomas' College. As a youth cricketer, Jeewan won several prestigious awards, including the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in 2001, the Man-of-the-Tournament awards in the Under-17 Asia Cup in Pakistan and the 2001 U-19 World Cup in New Zealand, where he bowled a record-breaking spell of 7 for 19 against Zimbabwe. However, during his six years for SSC, he hardly got an opportunity to bowl his legspinners, but his move to Tamil Union in 2008-09 opened the doors for him to display his all-round talent.
In the recently concluded domestic season, Mendis won the Man-of-the-Tournament and Man-of-the-Final awards, scoring 450 runs and taking 26 wickets to help Tamil
Union emerge the Premier limited-overs champions. In the Premier League, he
accumulated 600 runs and captured 36 wickets to win the Player-of-the-Tournament prize once again - a unique double underlying the fact that he is a cricketer suitable for all versions of the game. Mainly a top-order batsman at No. 3 or 4 from his school days, Mendis honed his spin-bowling skills under the national spin bowling coach, Piyal Wijetunge. Mendis says batsmen find it difficult to read his leg spin or googly because of the way he grips the ball. An outstanding fielder, Mendis believes he is at his peak and selection to the Sri Lanka A team for the upcoming tri-nation series against Canada and Holland is one step towards achieving his life-long ambition of representing his country.
Sa'adi Thawfeeq January 2010