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Message: <blockquote data-quote="minfkas" data-source="post: 6728678" data-attributes="member: 91187"><img src="http://beta.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00032/IN16__CRICKET_TWENTY_32125e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  AP Sanath Jayasuriya    <a href="http://beta.thehindu.com/topics/?categoryId=1569" target="_blank">sport</a> <a href="http://beta.thehindu.com/topics/?categoryId=1683" target="_blank">cricket</a>        His cricket career on the wane, former captain Sanath  Jayasuriya has taken the political plunge and will have a face-off  against ex-teammate Arjuna Ranatunga during election campaigns for their  respective alliances for the April 8 Sri Lankan Parliamentary polls. Jayasuriya is expected to contest the upcoming general  elections under the ruling coalition United People Freedom Alliance  (UPFA) ticket from the Southern Coastal Matara district. Jayasuriya, however, ruled out giving up cricket just yet. “I will not give up cricket though I am coming into  politics. I was pushed to this decision after an exhaustive study,” the  opener said. “I have nothing to earn from the  politics. But I can work for the people who loved me a lot. It is the  bounden duty to serve the people, in return, for what they did for me to  come to this position,” he added. “When the UPFA  invited me to contest for general elections I accepted it since this is a  golden opportunity to work people wholeheartedly,” Jayasuriya told Daily  News. The 40-year-old cricketer said he got the  all-clear to contest elections from the Sri Lanka Cricket Board. Ranatunga, who left the UPFA and sided with the defeated  opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, had recently said that  Jayasuriya and other active cricket players should not join politics.While one of Arjuna Ranatunga’s brother, Prasanna is the  Chief Minister of the UPFA-led Western Provincial Council, his another  sibling Nishantha Ranatunga is the secretary of the Interim Committee of  the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).</blockquote>

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