Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya entered in politics

Having fabricated after-effects on the candid field, Sri Lankan all bastard Sanath Jayasuriya on Friday fabricated his admission as a lawmaker, active home with a delinquent achievement from a aldermanic constituency in Matara commune in the south.

jayasuriya.jpgJayasuriya was declared champ in absentia, accumulation 74,352 votes as the after-effects for the civic aldermanic acclamation trickled in.

The cricketer won on the admission of the cardinal United People's Freedom Party accord of the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He was not present at the counting as he is arena for the Mumbai Eleven in the advancing IPL.

In a appropriate gesture, Jayasuriya was accustomed permission to casting his vote a day beforehand as he had to advance to accompany his Mumbai teammates in India.

The 40-year-old brilliant batsman is a political amateur and has fabricated it in his aboriginal attack at the hustings. But the fate of his assistant and above captain Arjun Ranatunga still afraid in balance.

Ranatunga was appear to be bound in a abutting challenge in his aldermanic seat. The above Lankan captain is in the affray on the admission of the action Democratic National Accord led by bedfast above army arch Sarath Fonseka.

With counting still in progress, it was cryptic whether Ranatunga would accompany Jayasuriya in parliament.

Though Jayasuriya retired from analysis candid in 2007, he has been included in the Sri Lankan aggregation for the apple 20:20 clash which gets underway in West Indies from April 30.