| Sargo Jayawickreme | |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Fullname: | Sagaradaththa Sudirikku Jayawickreme |
| Birth Date: | 10 January 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Galle, Ceylon |
| Death Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium-pace |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 28 |
| Runs1: | 1254 |
| Bat Avg1: | 25.59 |
| 100S/50S1: | 2/6 |
| Top Score1: | 138 |
| Deliveries1: | 2561 |
| Wickets1: | 27 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 40.22 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/58 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 16/– |
| Date: | 20 September 2017 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/49296.html Cricinfo |
Sagaradaththa Sudirikku "Sargo" Jayawickreme MBE, also spelled Jayawickrema (10 January 1911 – 15 February 1983) was a cricketer who represented Ceylon in first-class cricket from 1932 to 1950, captaining the team in the 1940s.
A middle-order batsman and medium-pace bowler, Sargo Jayawickreme attended Royal College, Colombo, and played in the Royal–Thomian cricket match four times, captaining Royal College to victory in his final year, 1930.[1] After leaving school he worked in the Rubber Control Department and joined Sinhalese Sports Club.[2]
He was one of the youngest of the Ceylon team that toured India in 1932-33, and was the leading batsman on the tour, with 421 runs at an average of 46.77; he also took 15 wickets at 25.53.[3] [4] He began the tour by taking 5 for 58 and 2 for 30 on his first-class debut in the opening match against Sind.[5] He scored 130 in the second of the two matches against India, when he rescued the innings from 86 for 5 to 305 all out.[6] Reporting on the tour in The Cricketer, the Indian journalist I. M. Mansukhani thought Jayawickreme the most impressive of the Ceylonese batsmen, with “a wide and delightful range of strokes”.[7]
Jayawickreme captained Ceylon on its next two tours: to India in 1940-41 and to Pakistan in 1949-50. In the first of the two matches against India in 1940-41 he scored 138 in just over three hours after Ceylon had been 24 for 3.[8]
He was also invited to play several first-class matches in India, including matches for The Rest in the Bombay Pentangular in 1937-38 and 1944–45.[9]
In all cricket he scored 56 centuries.[2] He was awarded the MBE for services to cricket. He and his wife had two daughters.[2]