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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 6757698" data-attributes="member: 134516">Golden bat for  Jayasuria on completing 20 years in Cricket <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4223849259_f97f45bb10_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Disappointment was clearly within his heart when Sanath Jayasuriya, in  his recent interview to cricinfo, said, “the sad thing is, I don’t know  whether the Sri Lankan cricket board is even aware that I’m completing  20 years today!” Jayasuriya made his ODI debut against Australia at  Melbourne exactly 20 years ago on 26th December 1989. Jayasuriya has seen the felicitation of his IPL-teammate Sachin  Tendulkar who had received a warm felicitation for completing the same  number of years in cricket. “Yes, we are aware about his services to the nation,” DS D’Silva, the  chairman and Nishantha Ranatunga, the board secretary said from Colombo.  “We (the interm committee members) have agreed to felicitate him on his  return to Sri Lanka,” they further added. “We shall present him a  golden bat worth Rs 5,00,000.” However, Jayasuriya may have to wait for  the golden bat. “We are waiting for the big occasion to present him this  bat,” the chairman said. Sadly, it had not been announced officially  yet. Interestingly, Sanath Jayasuriya is the first cricketer to be appointed  as a UN Goodwill Ambassador (by UNAIDS, Geneva) for his commitment to  prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people in Sri Lanka. He is the only player to score more than 13,000 runs and capture more  than 300 wickets in one day internationals.</blockquote>

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