1018 wickets in entire career, World Cup played for neighboring country, 2 players forced to live by driving bus

New Delhi. After earning a name in the world of cricket, money rains, people generally believe this, but not everyone’s story is the same. Would you believe that even after playing all three formats of international cricket and representing his country in every tournament like the World Cup, someone is forced to drive a bus to run home. It is true that two avid players from our neighboring country had to drive a bus to Australia to make ends meet.

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After leaving their mark in international cricket, two Sri Lankan players are forced to live in oblivion today. Suraj Randiv and Chintaka Jayasinghe were once successful in making a place in the big ICC tournament in the Sri Lankan cricket team. Both these players played in the ICC World Cup and now no one even knows about them. Randiv played against India in the 2011 World Cup final match at Wankhede, Mumbai.

Suraj has suffered 1018 setbacks in his entire cricket career

Suraj has played 12 Tests, 31 ODIs and 7 T20 Internationals for Sri Lanka. In this, he has taken 43 Test wickets, 36 ODI wickets and 7 T20 wickets in his name. Talking about domestic cricket, he has taken 681 first class, 189 list A and 62 T20 wickets. Suraj Randiv took a total of 1018 wickets in his entire career.

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Chintaka Jayasinghe is the second Sri Lankan player who went missing after playing an international match. Played 5 T-20 Internationals from Sri Lanka. Jaisinghe made his T20 debut against India in 2009 in Nagpur. Was part of the team that played the ICC T20 World Cup in 2010. To survive Suraj Randiv and Chintaka have to drive a bus in a French based company named Transdev.