5 cricketers who have held important government positions

#2 Sanath Jayasuriya

Jayasuriya has held two deputy minister posts

Having scored over 20000 runs for his country, the Matara Hurricane joined politics in 2010, representing the United People's Freedom Alliance. Three years later, he was appointed as the deputy minister of postal services. In 2015, he took oath as new deputy minister. He was appointed as the deputy minister Local Government and Rural Development.

He was in office until the Parliament dissolved a few weeks later. Thereafter, he did not run for office and showed his allegiance with the United National Party. Later on, he came back to the cricketing hemisphere as the chairman of selectors of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).