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Full name Mohamed Marshuk Mohamed Suraj
Born January 30, 1985, Matara
Current age 23 years 222 days
Major teams Kandurata,Matara Sports Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Rahula College,Sinhalese Sports Club,Sri Lanka A,Sri Lanka Under-15s,Sri Lanka Under-19s
Also known as Suraj
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
37
48
9
565
91*
14.48
1247
45.30
0
2
29
0
List A
31
14
2
98
42*
8.16
230
42.60
0
0
9
0
Twenty20
8
3
1
32
20
16.00
19
168.42
0
0
1
2
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
37
6479
3563
137
9/62
26.00
3.29
47.2
4
8
2
List A
31
1077
880
38
5/27
5/27
23.15
4.90
28.3
0
1
0
Twenty20
8
6
114
124
5
2/18
2/18
24.80
6.52
22.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class debut
2004
Last First-class
Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (Bloomfield), Mar 13-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2004
Last List A
Kandurata v Wayamba at Colombo (SSC), Jan 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Sinhalese Sports Club v Badureliya Sports Club at Colombo (CCC), Oct 29, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Kandurata v Wayamba at Kurunegala, Apr 30, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Suraj Mohamed is another in the line of Sri Lankan spinners. He is now recognised as a good offspinner, but Suraj began his career as a right-arm fast bowler at junior level. When his school found that they had no spinner in their under-15 side, the coach requested him to switch over to bowling offbreaks. Starting as a part-time bowler, he was soon picking
up wickets on a regular basis and started representing Matara SC while still at school. Twenty-three wickets in four matches in the under-23 tournament in 2003-04 did not go unnoticed by Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene, who brought him over to
SSC. Since then Suraj's career has been on the up, and he has benefited immensely in the presence of Atapattu and Jayawardene, learning how to bowl under pressure and to different fields. He insists, though, that the doosra is best left to Muttiah Muralitharan to perfect. "I will stick to my offbreaks and topspinners." Saadi Thawfeeq (May 2005)
