Angelo Mathews

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Angelo Mathews
ඇන්ජෙලෝ මැතිව්ස්
ஏஞ்சலோ மேத்யூஸ்
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Angelo Mathews with Sri Lanka in 2006
Personal information
Full nameAngelo Davis Mathews
Born (1987-06-02) 2 June 1987 (age 34)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 112)4 July 2009 v Pakistan
Last Test29 November 2021 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 137)31 December 2008 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI10 March 2021 v West Indies
ODI shirt no.69
T20I debut (cap 28)8 June 2009 v Australia
Last T20I7 March 2021 v West Indies
T20I shirt no.69
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2009–2010Kolkata Knight Riders
2011–2013Pune Warriors India
2012Nagenahira Nagas
2015; 2017Delhi Daredevils
2018Lahore Qalandars
2020 - presentColombo Stars
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 91 218 78
Runs scored 6,308 5,835 1,148
Batting average 45.05 41.67 25.51
100s/50s 11/37 3/40 0/5
Top score 200* 139* 81*
Balls bowled 3,930 5,191 1,029
Wickets 33 120 38
Bowling average 53.51 33.35 31.57
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 4/44 6/20 3/16
Catches/stumpings 69/– 53/– 24/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 29 November 2021

Angelo Davis Mathews, (Sinhala: ඇන්ජෙලෝ ඩේවිස් මැතිව්ස්; Tamil: அஞ்சலோ மத்யூஸ்; born 2 June 1987), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain in all formats.[1][2] He was also a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made the finals of 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20. An occasional bowler who can deliver swinging match-winning spells, Mathews and Lasith Malinga holds the record for the highest ninth wicket partnership in ODI cricket.

Personal life[]

Mathews was born in Colombo, to Tamil father Tyronne Mathews and Burgher mother Monica Mathews.[3][4] Mathews is Roman Catholic and was educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo.[5]

Mathews is married to his longtime partner, Heshanie Silva. The wedding reception was held on 18 July 2013 at Cinnamon Grand Hotel with the presence of former president Mahinda Rajapakse.[6][7] They have one son and one daughter.[8]

Domestic career[]

Mathews made his List A debut for Sri Lanka Under-23s against New Zealand A at Police Park Ground, Colombo in September, 2005. He captained the Sri Lankan cricket team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.[5] He later made his first-class debut for Colombo Cricket Club in November, 2006.

In the Indian Premier League cricket, he played for Delhi Daredevils in the 2017 Indian Premier League season. He is one of the most sought out players in the Premier League world, having been bought by the Pune Warriors for US$950,000.[9]

In March 2018, he was named as the captain of Kandy's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.[10][11] The following month, he was also named as the captain for Kandy's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[12]

In August 2018, he was named as the captain of Kandy's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[13] In October 2020, he was drafted by the Colombo Kings for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League.[14]

International career[]

Impressive start[]

Mathews began his international career in late 2008 with ambitions of becoming a genuine allrounder, but has since given primacy to his batting (to diminish his workload and avoid injuries), and effectively plays as a specialist batsman in the Test side. However, for the balance of the team, he still plays as a batting allrounder in the limited overs cricket. A more than useful strike rate of 84.06 has made him a damaging prospect in the final overs of the Sri Lankan innings.[15][9]

He made his international debut in a One Day International against Zimbabwe in November 2008 and made his Test debut against Pakistan at Galle in July, 2009.

Angelo Mathews at Sydney Cricket Ground in October 2010

Angelo Mathews made his Test debut in Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka, 2009. The Test also marked the debuts of Abdur Rauf, Mohammad Amir and Saeed Ajmal. He scored his maiden half-century in the third Test of the series, played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo. His maiden ton came against Australia in September, 2011 in the same venue.[16] Mathews has an average record in Tests in countries such as Australia, South Africa and India, but up to now he has had limited opportunities to improve on it. His brilliant records at home and in countries like England and UAE make up for that. Two of his four centuries came in England – against a high quality pace attack consisting of James Anderson and Stuart Broad – in the famous Sri Lanka tour of England and Ireland, 2014. He has also flourished with the added responsibility of captaincy, averaging 86.62 in 13 matches.[16]

In February 2013, Mathews became Sri Lanka's youngest ever Test captain at 25, after having been groomed for the post for two years. He captained the Lankan team in its monumental Test series win in England (2014). His highest Test score (200 off 428 balls) came in the first match vs zimbabwe 2020.[15]

Captaincy in all formats (2013–2017)[]

Angelo Mathews as captain at the toss with Nick Knight

After Kumar Sangakkara stepped down as ODI captain following the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Mathews was widely tipped to be Sri Lanka's next limited overs captain.[17] However, short tenures of Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene followed.[18][19][20][21] After Sri Lanka's loss in the final of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, the skipper Jayawardene stepped down as captain of the T20I side. Later that month, Mathews was appointed as the T20I captain with Lasith Malinga as his deputy.[1] In February 2013 Mathews was eventually named as ODI and Test captain succeeding Jayawardene.[22]

Mathews became an important member in Sri Lanka One Day team during the Sri Lanka tour of Australia in 2010/11. At the first match, on 3 November 2010, Mathews scored a magnificent match winning 77* runs with a partnership with Lasith Malinga, who also scored his only half-century. Sri Lanka were in trouble when he come into the crease, but finally won the match. In this match, Mathews along with Malinga, recorded the highest ninth wicket partnership in ODI history by scoring 132 runs for the ninth wicket.[23]

His knock of 80* against Pakistan at Colombo was nominated to be one of the best ODI batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo.[24]

He was selected in the 2nd XI of the 2014 ICC World T20 Cup by ESPNCricinfo.[25]

Mathews hit back-to-back centuries against England at Lord's and Headingley to seal Sri Lanka's first-ever Test series win in England. Under him, Sri Lanka also won the ODI series 3 – 2. The England tour was followed by a 2 – 0 win over Pakistan at home, where Mathews and his team ensured a winning send-off for Mahela Jayawardene from Tests.[26]

On 16 November 2014, Mathews scored his first ODI century against India at Ranchi. He hit four boundaries and ten huge sixes, but finally ended up in the losing side by century made by Indian skipper Virat Kohli. Under the captaincy of Mathews, however, lost all the matches in 5 ODI series against India in 2014. This is the largest loss by Sri Lanka in a bilateral series.[27]

Year 2014 was the limelight of Mathew's captaincy, where Sri Lanka won many bilateral ODI series and also the 2014 Asia Cup.[28] That year, he became the most successful ODI captain with 20 wins out of 32 matches and 62.50% of winning percentage.[29] For his performances in 2014, he was named as captain of the World Test XI by ICC. [30] He was also named in the Cricbuzz XI of the year.[31]

On 11 March 2015, during the last pool A match in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, against Scotland, Mathews scored the fastest fifty by a Sri Lankan in World Cups, and third fastest ODI fifty by a Sri Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya and Kusal Perera. His fifty came from just 20 balls, where it includes 5 sixes and 1 four.[32]

Mathews was able to bring the team to quarter finals of the World Cup 2015 under his captaincy, where they lost the quarter final against South Africa on 18 March 2015. This defeat was Sri Lanka's first lost in World Cups after 2003, without reaching for the semi finals.

Angelo Mathews batting

Mathews became the fourth Sri Lankan all-rounder to take 100 ODI wickets with more than 3000 ODI runs after Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, and Tillakaratne Dilshan. He took his 100th ODI wicket by lbw of Mohammad Hafeez on 26 July 2015.[33]

He was also named in the Test XI of the year 2015 by Cricinfo[34]

On 8 March 2016, Mathews was appointed as the T20I captain as well, due to continuous injuries of Lasith Malinga.[35] On 17 August 2016, under Mathews' captaincy, Sri Lanka whitewashed Australia, which was at the Number 1 in Test rankings. This was the second time that Sri Lanka managed to Whitewash a major Test side in their history. Before that, West Indies who were led by Brian Lara were white washed in a three test series in 2001, [36] and apart from that only Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have been whitewashed.[37]

In July 2017, Sri Lanka lost a five-match home ODI series 3–2 against Zimbabwe. Matthews said the defeat was "one of the lowest points in my career"[38] and he stepped down as captain of the team in all three formats the following day.[39]

Post captaincy (2017)[]

On 4 December 2017 against India, Mathews scored his eighth test century. His century came during a tough time for Sri Lanka's innings, where he built the innings slowly with captain Dinesh Chandimal.[40] Finally Sri Lanka was able to drawn the match.

Mathews scored his second ODI hundred on 12 December 2017 at Mohali during the second ODI against India. However his century was in vain due to the third double hundred of Rohit Sharma in the earlier innings and Sri Lanka was on a chase of mammoth total of 392. With Mathews unbeaten century however, Sri Lanka crossed 250 after 10 ODI matches and finally lost the match by 141 runs.[41]

During the second T20I against India, Mathews pulled up hamstring strain as he ran in to deliver the third ball of his third over. He left the field and did not came to bat as well. With medical treatments and news arrived, he will be out of cricket for at least two weeks.[42]

Captaincy second term (2018)[]

On 9 January 2018, Mathews has been reappointed as the captain for Sri Lanka in One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the second time less than six months after he resigned from the position. He was stepped down from captaincy at the end of Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka in 2017 after ODI loss. However, with many defeats in all formats in 2017, new coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and new selection committee handed over limited over captaincy for Mathews for the second time.[2]

Things were not good for his captaincy, where Sri Lanka lost the first match for Zimbabwe in the Bangladesh tri-series. During the match he suffered a knee injury and ruled out from the rest of the ODI series.[43] Dinesh Chandimal captained the side and won the series as well. Initial news revealed that, Mathews will recover for the Test series against Bangladesh, but he did not recovered and hence dropped from the Test squad.[44] He also missed T20I series, where Chandimal appointed as the T20I captain.[45] This Bangladesh tour was the third-consecutive overseas tour Mathews withdrew from with a hamstring injury, having also done so in 2017 in South Africa and India. In 2016, he had missed a full tour of Zimbabwe with "multiple leg injuries" as well.[46]

In May 2018, he was one of 33 cricketers to be awarded a national contract by Sri Lanka Cricket ahead of the 2018–19 season.[47][48]

Mathews was sacked as the captain of the Sri Lankan ODI and T20 team in September, 2018 after a disastrous 2018 Asia Cup campaign where Sri Lanka crashed out of tournament after losing both their group matches against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Test captain Dinesh Chandimal was named as the replacement for Mathews to captain the limited overs teams.[49][50]

As anchor man[]

During the first Test against New Zealand in late 2018, Mathews scored his ninth Test century. Mathews along with Kusal Mendis batted all over fourth day, which was the fifth time that Sri Lankan pair had done that in Test history. On fifth day, they put on an unbeaten double century partnership which overall lasts for 115 wicketless overs for New Zealanders. With rain interrupted, the match was ended in a draw.[51] The partnership of 246, was also Sri Lanka's highest for any wicket against New Zealand[52] and also Sri Lanka's highest in the second innings of a Test. It was the first time a Sri Lankan pair has added 200-plus runs in the second innings of a Test outside Asia.[53]

In the second Test, Mathews injured with a hamstring trouble while he was batting with Chandimal. He was immediately sent for the medical scans and did not come to bat after tea.[54] Sri Lanka finally lost the match and series 1–0. He was ruled out of the ODI tour and upcoming Australian tour as well.[55]

In April 2019, he was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[56][57] After consecutive failures of 0,0, 9 with the bat in World Cup, Mathews regained his form during the pool match against England. He scored unbeaten 85 runs to post a total of 232. With the bowling performance by veteran Malinga, Sri Lanka won the match by 20 runs.[58] During the match, Mathews scored his 12,000th international run for Sri Lanka.[59] During the match against West Indies on 1 July 2019, Mathews surprisingly requested to bowl the 48th over. He picked up the wicket of Nicolas Pooran who was on 118, and was all set to take the West Indies to victory. Mathews, had not bowled for 8 months, even in the nets.[60] On 6 July 2019 against India, Mathews scored his third century, where all his three centuries now came against India.[61] However, Sri Lanka lost the match by 7 wickets.[62]

Mathews was included to the T20I series against India in January 2020. It was his first T20I appearance after 16 months.[63][64] He played in the third T20I on 10 January 2020 and started to ball as well. However, he finished with expensive figures of 38 runs in three overs without a wicket. With the bat, he scored 31 runs and Sri Lanka eventually lost the match and the series.[65]

On 22 January 2020, during the first test against Zimbabwe, Mathews scored his maiden double hundred.[66] He scored unbeaten 200 runs in 465 balls within 600 minutes in the middle.[67] His double hundred is recorded as the first double hundred scored by a Sri Lanka in five years after Sangakkara's double in 2015.[68] Finally Sri Lanka won the match by 10 wickets and Mathews won the man of the match award.[69] Sri Lanka was able to draw the second Test due to second innings unbeaten century by Kusal Mendis and sealed the series 1-0.[70] Mathews won the player of the series award becoming highest run scorer in the series. Mathews scored 277 runs with a double hundred and one fifty at an average 138.50.[71]

During third ODI against West Indies, Mathews delivered match winning bowling spell. He bowled all 10 overs in the match since way back in July 2015 due to the injury of premier pacer Nuwan Pradeep. He took 4 for 59 where he bowled the penultimate over to win the match for Sri Lanka by 6 runs. He won man of the match award for match winning bowling performance.[72]

First test match of England tour of Sri Lanka 2021, Mathews scored his 6000 test runs. In the second innings he scored his 36th test half century. He scored 71 runs facing 219 balls and 344 minutes on the crease just hitting four boundaries. His patient innings helped to take a lead to Sri Lanka but England won the match by 7 wickets.[73]

Second test match of England tour of Sri Lanka 2021, Mathews scored his 11th test century. It was Mathews 1st test ton on home soil since 2015 and his first test ton at Gall International Cricket Stadium.He scored 110 runs hitting 11 boundaries to put a big total to the team in First innings. He is the highest run scorer for Sri Lanka in this series. But England won the match by 6 wickets and also won the series.[74]

Captaincy 2021[]

On 27 February 2021, Mathews was appointed as Sri Lanka's stand-in captain for the T20I series in the West Indies as the appointed captain Dasun Shanaka, delayed in obtaining a US transit visa and travel with the team at the time.[75] Under Mathews captaincy, Sri Lanka managed to win only the second T20I, where West Indies won the series 2–1. In batting, he had a poor outing, where he scored 5, 13 and 11 in three matches. Meanwhile, after the first ODI in the series, he left the tour of West Indies immediately for personal reasons citing his daughter's critical health condition.[76][77]

Criticism[]

With three legends (Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Dilshan) retiring from international cricket, the team had a rough time in many bilateral series in all formats. They also lost Asia Cup, World T20 and Champions Trophy very cheaply and moved down to 8 and 7 places in rankings as well. With all these, Bangladesh toured Sri Lanka and drawn all formats, whereas Zimbabwe also recorded their first series win against Sri Lanka and the captaincy of Mathews was criticized for many reasons for their losses. Though he injured several times in his captaincy career, and replaced by Upul Tharanga in many winning notes, reporters suggested that Mathews will not captain until 2019 Cricket World Cup.[78][79]

Mathews was highly criticized for his running between the wickets. Sri Lanka coach Chandika Hathurusinghe stated that Mathews has involved for more than 64 run outs in past two years, more than the second worst. Out of those 64, about 45 times, the batsman at the other end got out,[80] where Hathurusinghe suggested that it is a world record.[81] Hathurusingha and the selectors contended that Mathews lacked the "cricket fitness" to field for 50 overs, then run between the wickets effectively. Under Mathews captaincy, Sri Lanka exit early from 2018 Asia Cup, where he was involved for three more run outs in the same fashion.[82][83] Therefore, immediately after the series, he was removed from the limited over captaincy and also from the limited over squad for England home series.[84]

Retirement[]

On 7 July 2021, Mathews announced that he is considering to retire from across all formats of international cricket as he had not signed the tour contract with SLC for the limited overs series against India and he complained of the unethical treatment by the management regarding the senior players in the team.[85][86][87] His decision is mainly due to the pay dispute with the Sri Lanka Cricket Board and also due to the intentions of SLC to axe several senior players from the national team in the limited overs matches to nurture and give opportunities to the youngsters with the 2023 World Cup on focus.[88][89][90]

Beyond cricket[]

In July 2021, he announced that he was interested in taking a major responsibility to find donors for a social welfare project titled "Little Hearts" which is also a national fundraising project being initiated in order to build a Cardiac and Critical Care Complex at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children which is situated in Colombo.[91][92] He was inspired to involve with Little Hearts fundraiser after acknowledging about the way the doctors and nurses had treated his daughter who was admitted at LRH hospital for sickness.[93]

Records and statistics[]

  • Highest ninth wicket partnership – 132 by Angelo Mathews (77) and Lasith Malinga (56) against Australia in November 2010.[23][94]
  • Most wins in year 2014 as a captain – Under the captaincy of Mathews, Sri Lanka won 20 ODI matches, lost 12 out of 32 matches and winning percentage is 62.50[29]
  • First cricketer to play in 50 T20I innings without registering a duck[95]
  • He is the fifth Sri Lankan cricketer to reach 6000 Test Runs.[1]

Awards[]

  • 2015 Wisden Cricketer of the Year[96][97]
  • Sri Lanka Cricket Cricketer of the Year 2015[98]

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