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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Sargo Jayawickreme<br />
| image =<br />
| country = Sri Lanka<br />
| full_name = Sagaradaththa Sudirikku Jayawickreme<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|1|10|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Galle]], [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|2|15|1911|1|10|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Colombo]], Sri Lanka<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm medium-pace<br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = <br />
| year1 = <br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 28<br />
| runs1 = 1254<br />
| bat avg1 = 25.59<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 2/6<br />
| top score1 = 138<br />
| deliveries1 = 2561<br />
| wickets1 = 27<br />
| bowl avg1 = 40.22<br />
| fivefor1 = 1<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 5/58<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 16/–<br />
| date = 20 September 2017<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/49296.html Cricinfo<br />
}}<br />
'''Sagaradaththa Sudirikku "Sargo" Jayawickreme''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], also spelled '''Jayawickrema''' (10 January 1911 – 15 February 1983) was a [[cricketer]] who represented [[Sri Lanka cricket team|Ceylon]] in [[first-class cricket]] from 1932 to 1950, captaining the team in the 1940s.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
A middle-order batsman and medium-pace bowler, Sargo Jayawickreme attended [[Royal College, Colombo]], and played in the [[Royal–Thomian]] cricket match four times, [[Captain (cricket)|captaining]] Royal College to victory in his final year, 1930.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Players/26/26306/Miscellaneous_Matches.html| title = Miscellaneous Matches played by Sargo Jayawickreme | publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref> After leaving school he worked in the Rubber Control Department and joined [[Sinhalese Sports Club]].<ref name="PE">{{cite news| work=Daily News | first=Premasara |last=Epasinghe |accessdate=22 September 2017| title=Sargo Jayawickrema - one of the greatest of batsmen of Ceylon |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2012/05/26/spo26.asp|date=26 May 2012}}</ref><br />
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He was one of the youngest of the Ceylon team that toured [[Ceylonese cricket team in India in 1932–33|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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ceylon_in_India_1932-33/f_Ceylon_Batting.html| title = First-class batting and fielding for Ceylon| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ceylon_in_India_1932-33/f_Ceylon_Bowling.html| title = First-class bowling for Ceylon| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref> He began the tour by taking 5 for 58 and 2 for 30 on his first-class debut in the opening match against [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14505.html| title = Sind v Ceylon 1932-33| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref> He scored 130 in the second of the two matches against [[India cricket team|India]], when he rescued the innings from 86 for 5 to 305 all out.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14526.html| title = India v Ceylon, Delhi 1932-33| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref> 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”.<ref>I. M. Mansukhani, "Ceylon Tour in India", ''[[The Cricketer]]'', Spring Annual, 1933, p. 74.</ref><br />
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Jayawickreme captained Ceylon on its next two tours: to [[Ceylonese cricket team in India in 1940–41|India in 1940-41]] and to [[Ceylonese cricket team in Pakistan in 1949–50|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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17295.html | title = Indian XI v Ceylon, Calcutta 1940-41 | publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref><br />
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He was also invited to play several first-class matches in India, including matches for [[The Rest cricket team|The Rest]] in the [[Bombay Pentangular]] in 1937-38 and 1944–45.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Players/26/26306/First-Class_Matches.html | title = First-class matches played by Sargo Jayawickreme | publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 22 September 2017}}</ref><br />
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In all cricket he scored 56 centuries.<ref name="PE"/> He was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to cricket. He and his wife had two daughters.<ref name="PE"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cricinfo|id=49296}}<br />
*{{cricketarchive|id=26306}}<br />
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[[Category:1911 births]]<br />
[[Category:1983 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Cricketers from Galle]]<br />
[[Category:Alumni of Royal College, Colombo]]<br />
[[Category:Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Sri Lankan cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:All-Ceylon cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:The Rest (Bombay) cricketers]]<br />
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