Mahela Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene
මහේල ජයවර්ධන

Personal information
Full name	Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene
Born	(1977-05-27) 27 May 1977 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nickname	Maiya
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style	Right hand batsman
Role	Batsman
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 69)	2 August 1997 v India
Last Test	14 – 18 August 2014 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 92)	24 January 1998 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	18 March 2015 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	27 (was 92)
T20I debut (cap 5)	15 June 2006 v England
Last T20I	6 April 2014 v India
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1995–present	Sinhalese Sports Club
2007–present	Wayamba Elevens
2008	Derbyshire
2008–2010	Kings XI Punjab
2011	Kochi Tuskers Kerala
2012–2014	Delhi Daredevils
2012	Wayamba United
2015	Sussex
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A Matches 149 448 237 541 Runs scored 11,814 12,650 17,838 15,181 Batting average 49.84 33.37 49.68 33.43 100s/50s 34/50 19/77 51/80 19/94 Top score 374 144 374 163* Balls bowled 589 593 3,001 1,280 Wickets 6 8 52 24 Bowling average 51.66 70.57 31.32 47.75 5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 2/32 2/56 5/72 3/25 Catches/stumpings 205/– 218/– 305/– 263/–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 18 March 2015

Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene (Sinhala: දෙනගමගේ ප්‍රබොත් මහේල ද සිල්වා ජයවර්ධන; born 27 May 1977), known as Mahela Jayawardene, is a former professional Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He was a specialist batsman. He retired from all international forms of the game on 18 March 2015.

Jayawardene made his Test cricket debut in 1997 and his One Day International (ODI) debut the following season. In 2006 he made the highest ever score by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, scoring 374 in the second Test of Sri Lanka's home series against South Africa. He has a test cricket average of over 50 and a One Day average in the 30s. He is the first player in the history of Sri Lankan cricket to score over 10,000 Test runs. Despite his relatively low ODI average, Jayawardene is considered to be one of the best batsmen produced by Sri Lanka.

He is one of only three Sri Lankans—the others being Sanath Jayasuriya and Sangakkara—to have scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. Along with teammate Sangakkara, he recorded for the most partnership runs for the 3rd wicket in Tests, scoring 5890 runs surpassing 5826 run stand of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, during the first test match against Pakistan at Galle International Stadium, which was his last test at the venue. He scored 56 runs at that match, where his counterpart scored 221 runs.

Jayawardene was a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made to the final of 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20.

In 2006, Jayawardene was named by the International Cricket Council as the best international captain of the year and was nominated in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year. He is also known for his fielding skills in the inner ring, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fifth highest run-out/match ratio in ODI's.^[1] Statistics also reveal that c Jayawardene b Muralitharan is the most common bowler-fielder combination in the history of Test cricket.

Career

Early and domestic career

Jayawardene was educated at one of the most prestigious schools of Sri Lanka, Nalanda College Colombo. At early age Mahela's father, Mr Senerath Jayawardene introduced him to Lionel Coaching Clinic run by Nondescripts Cricket Club in Cinnamon Gardens.^[2] It was there that he learned to play cricket. Mahela captained Nalanda College Colombo first XI cricket team in 1994. He developed his talents through the school cricket team, eventually becoming captain. He was runner-up for the best schoolboy cricketer award during the 1994 cricketing season.

Domestically he has played for Sinhalese Sports Club since 1995. He was signed to play as an overseas player for Derbyshire for the first half of the 2008 English cricket season. However, his commitments to Sri Lanka and involvement in the Indian Premier League prevented him from playing any part in the 2008 county season.^[3]

International career

Career in 1990s

Mahela Jayawardene is the 69th Sri Lanka Test Cap, having made his debut against India at Colombo in 1997. Jayawardene made his Test debut in the record breaking Test in 1997 against India at R.P.S., Colombo. Jayawardene added 66 to Sri Lanka's first innings score of 952/6, the highest Test score ever. He was at the crease when the previous highest Test score was surpassed. Early in his career he scored 167 against New Zealand and 242 against India.

Jayawardene's One Day International debut was against Zimbabwe at Premadasa in January 1998. Sri Lanka won the match, with Jayawardene hitting the winning run. In the next game Jayawardene scored 74. It took only 11 matches before he scored his first century, which was against England in the Carlton and United World Series game at Adelaide. Jayawardene entered a pressure situation, with Sri Lanka struggling at 134/4 in the run chase, but made an innings of 120 runs to win the match. The match is notable for Ross Emerson's no-balling of Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing, which led the Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga to lead his team to the edge of the field and consider walking out of the match, as well as physical shoulder-barging by some players.

Captaincy

Jayawardene was the captain of the Sri Lankan national team during the England tour in 2006 in the absence of Marvan Atapattu. He led his team to 1–1 draw in the Test series and an emphatic 5–0 whitewash in the ODI series.

In the first Test of the 2006 Test series against South Africa, Jayawardene shared a world record partnership of 624 runs alongside Kumar Sangakkara. This partnership, the highest for any wicket in first-class cricket history, and the first instance of a stand of 600 or more in a first-class or Test match innings, smashed the previous third wicket stand for Sri Lanka, surpassing 262 which involved himself along with Thilan Samaraweera. It also broke the previous record for the third wicket partnership for all Test playing nations surpassing the 467 run partnership made by the New Zealanders Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones.

Jayawardene became the first Sri Lankan captain to score a Test triple-century, making 374 off 572 deliveries with 43 fours and 1 six, the fourth highest individual innings score in Test match cricket and the highest by a right-hander. He is also the first batsman to pass 350 in a Test without going on to break the world record. He also surpassed the highest score by a Sri Lankan in a Test match, previously Sanath Jayasuriya's 340 in 1997 against India, coincidentally also produced in a world record partnership.

He was also chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2007. In the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Jayawardene hit one century and four half-centuries and was the second highest run-scorer in the list topped by Australia's Matthew Hayden. His century, which came against New Zealand helped Sri Lanka win the Semi-Final. Sri Lanka finished runners-up in the World Cup losing to Australia in the final. He is the only batsman in World Cup ODI history to score hundreds in both a semi final and a final of the tournament. He achieved this feat, when scored a century in 2007 Cricket World Cup semi final against New Zealand, and scored a century in 2011 Cricket World Cup final against India.

He has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations. He achieved this feat on the 21st February 2009 by scoring his maiden Test century against Pakistan at the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan.

Mahela is the Recipient of International Cricket Council's "Captain of the Year 2006" inaugural award, Captain of the "World One-Day International Team of the Year 2006", Captain of the "Spirit of Cricket Award 2007" Team, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2007, Record holder for the highest score (374 runs) by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket. He retired from the captaincy due to lack of form and politics in the board.

Jayawardene led Sri Lanka to Pakistan for a Test series in March–April 2009. The series was conducted after the Indian team withdrew from playing in Pakistan, following the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. The first Test ended in a draw. Even though he scored a double century in the first Test, Jayawardene was to resign from captaincy after the second Test in the series. Sri Lanka was in a good position in the Test with Thilan Samaraweera hitting his second successive double hundred of the series and Tillakaratne Dilshan scoring a century. On their way to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day's play, the bus that carried the Sri Lankan players was fired at by 12 masked gunmen. Jayawardene, along with six other Sri Lankan cricketers sustained injuries. Six policemen that guarded the bus and two civilians were killed in the attack.^[8] He resigned from vice-captaincy after the team's World Cup defeat. He was appointed as captain again after Tillakaratne Dilshan's controversial captaincy. He was the captain of Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League.^[9] He now plays for the Delhi Daredevils as captain.^[10] He won the Spirit of Cricket Award 2013.^[11] This was the second instance of him winning this award.

Post-captaincy

However, he regained some form during the IPL 2010. Before starting their chase of 201 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders, Jayawardene expressed his desire to open the innings to captain Kumar Sangakkara. Sangakkara agreed to his fellow countrymate and Jayawardene scored a blazing 110* off just 59 balls winning them the match in the second last over. Sangakkara, impressed my his teammate set him as opener for the Kings XI Punjab. He scored a few more entertaining knocks in vain including 44 against the Rajasthan Royals and 93* against the Deccan Chargers. He ended the tournament with a batting average of 43.90. He was the 6th highest run scorer for the tournament and highest for the Kings XI Punjab.

Jayawardene batting in a Test match for Sri Lanka in 2008

With Kumar Sangakkara as the Sri Lankan Captain too, Jaywardene was sent as opener for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. In the first match against New Zealand, he scored 81 off just 51 balls. However, this knock went in vain due to the collapse in the Sri Lankan batting line-up after his wicket fell which resulted in a total of only 135 on board batting first. However, in his very next match against Zimbabwe, he scored 100 of just 64 balls helping them win the match helping them win the match defending a total of 173. He thus became the 4th player to score a century in an Twenty20 International match and the first Sri Lankan to do so. Sri Lanka won the match by D/L method. In the very next match against West Indies, he scored 98* off just 56 balls narrowly missing his second century in a row. This became his third consecutive score above 80.

During the second Test of Sri Lanka's tour of South Africa in 2011–12, Jayawardene became the ninth player in cricket history, and the first Sri Lankan, to score 10,000 Test runs.^[12] At the end of the tour he was reappointed as Sri Lanka's captain, following the resignation of Tillakaratne Dilshan.^[13]

Jayawardene led Sri Lanka to the final of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 against the West Indies on home turf. Having restricted the Windies to 137/6, Sri Lanka were steadily making progress in chasing down the target with Jayawardene well set. Halfway through their innings, captain Jayawardene noticed that the West Indies were slightly ahead on Duckworth/Lewis with a hint of rain in the air. He subsequently decided to accelerate the innings, but this only triggered a collapse. The rain never came and Sri Lanka fell a long way short of the target. He resigned as Sri Lanka's T20 captain after the match and in 2014 also announced his retirement from T20 cricket.^[14]

He holds the record for most number of catches in ODIs, taking 218 catches in 448 matches.^[15] matches.

Last international innings

On 25 February 2014 in an Asia Cup fixture against Pakistan, Jayawardene became only the 2nd cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to appear in 600 international matches.^[16]

On 14 July 2014, Jayawardene announced his retirement from test cricket after the 2014 Pakistan series.^[17] He played his final test at his favourite ground, the Sinhalese Sports Club, where he scored 54 runs in his last test innings. The ground was replete with thousands of tributes. Russell Arnold quipped that Legends never retire.

Mahela Bowling vs England in his Final ODI in Sri Lanka

His last One-Day innings in Sri Lanka was played on 13 December 2014 in the last match of England ODI series. He was caught on 28 in his last innings in home soil.^[18] Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews gave him the ball to take the final wicket. He got his 8th ODI wicket by dismissing James Tredwell through a stumping, with Sangakkara behind the stumps.

Mahela batting vs England in his final ODI in Sri Lanka

On 11 January 2015, he scored his 18th ODI century against New Zealand. This was his first ODI century at New Zealand soil in his 17 year-long ODI career.^[19]

During the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, during the match against Australia, Mahela became the most capped player for Sri Lanka in ODIs, passing Jayasuriya's 445 ODI matches.

Jayawardene's last ODI was the quarter final of the 2015 World Cup, played against South Africa. He only scored 4 runs in Sri Lanka's first World Cup defeat in a quarter final since 1999.^[20]

Personal life

Jayawardene was born to Sunila and Senerath Jayawardene at Colombo in 1977. He had one younger brother, Dhishal who died of a brain tumour, aged 16. This affected Jayawardene psychologically, halting his cricket career for some time. Eventually he was persuaded to go on and set about rebuilding his career by his parents and teammates.

He is married to Christina Mallika Sirisena, a travel consultant. The two have one daughter.^[21]

Off the field, he has won praise for his personal contribution to the HOPE cancer project.^[22] With memories of his deceased brother in mind, he became the leading campaigner of HOPE.^[23] Now, with the support of his team-mates, he aims to build a new 750-bed cancer unit at Maharagama, the country's only dedicated cancer hospital.

Product and brand endorsements

• Mobitel (Sri Lanka)^[24]
• DSI holdings Ltd.^[25]
• Reebok –^[26]

Player statistics

Career Performance

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Jayawardene's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

Test performance against each opponent

As of 18 August 2014, until his retirement from tests:

Opponent	Matches	Innings	Not out	Runs	High Score	100	50	Average
Australia	16	29	0	969	105	2	5	33.41
Bangladesh	13	17	2	1146	203*	5	2	76.40
England	23	41	3	2212	213*	8	10	65.87
India	18	28	1	1822	275	6	8	67.48
New Zealand	13	22	1	1028	167	3	6	48.95
Pakistan	29	55	3	1687	240	2	10	32.44
South Africa	17	32	1	1782	374	6	2	57.48
West Indies	12	18	1	748	136	1	4	44.00
Zimbabwe	8	10	3	420	100*	1	3	60.00
TOTAL	149	252	15	11814	374	34	50	51.45

ODI performance against each opponent

As of 18 March 2015, until his retirement from ODIs:^[27]

Opponent	Matches	Innings	Not out	Runs	High Score	100	50	Average
Australia	56	54	5	1629	86	0	16	33.24
Bangladesh	26	21	3	547	108	1	2	30.39
England	47	43	4	1562	144	5	8	40.05
India	87	84	8	2666	128	4	17	35.08
New Zealand	50	45	5	1326	116	3	5	34.00
Pakistan	67	64	2	1903	123	2	12	30.69
South Africa	43	43	3	897	77	0	3	22.90
West Indies	22	20	4	676	106*	1	5	42.25
Zimbabwe	29	25	3	586	96	0	4	26.64
Afghanistan	2	2	0	114	100	1	0	57.00
Bermuda	1	1	0	85	85	0	1	85.00
Canada	2	1	0	100	100	1	0	100.00
Ireland	1	1	1	39*	39*	0	0
Kenya	3	2	0	50	45	0	0	25.00
Netherlands	3	3	0	48	34	0	0	16.00
Scotland	2	2	0	66	64	0	1	33.00
United Arab Emirates	2	2	0	87	61	0	0	43.50
ACA Africa XI	5	5	1	269	107*	1	2	67.25
TOTAL	448	418	39	12650	144	19	77	33.37

Centuries

Jayawardene has 34 test, 19 ODI and 1 T20I centuries. He is the first Sri Lankan and third overall to score hundreds in all forms of the game.

Half-centuries

Jayawardene has 50 Test, 77 ODI and 9 T20I half-centuries.

Test half centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

One Day International half centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Twenty20 International half centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Twenty20 International Half Centuries of Mahela Jayawardena Runs Match Against Venue Year [1] 65 4 Kenya The Wanderers Stadium, South Africa 2007 [2] 78 15 Ireland Lord's, England 2009 [3] 81 24 New Zealand Providence Stadium, Guyana 2010 [4] 98* 26 West indies Kensington Oval, Barbados 2010 [5] 72* 33 England County Ground, England 2011 [6] 86 35 Australia Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Sri Lanka 2011 [7] 65* 41 West Indies Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Sri Lanka 2012 [8] 61* 46 Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia 2013 [9] 89 52 England Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Sri Lanka 2014 International Awards ICC Captain of the Year 2006 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2007 ICC Spirit of Cricket Award 2013 International records Bold ones are world records. Tests Highest partnership for any wicket – 624 for the third wicket by Kumar Sangakkara (287) & Mahela Jayawardene (374) against South Africa in 2006.[28] Most partnership runs for the third wicket – Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena ( scored 5890 runs )[29] Highest partnership for the fourth wicket – 437 by Mahela Jayawardena and Thilan Samaraweera against Pakistan in 2009.[28] Highest partnership for the sixth wicket – 351 by Mahela Jayawardena and Prasanna Jayawardene against India in 2009. Highest partnership for the eighth wicket – 170 by Mahela Jayawardena and Chaminda Vaas against South Africa in 2004. He holds record for the highest runs scored on a single ground in Tests where he scored 2921 runs at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo.[30] "c Jayawardene b Muralitharan" is the most common bowler-fielder combination in the history of Test cricket (77).[31] He holds the record for the second highest number of catches in Tests with 206 catches in 423 matches.[32] Highest individual score in Tests by a Sri Lankan – 374 runs against South Africa in 2006.[33] One-Day Internationals Most number of ODI matches for Sri Lanka - 448 matches by Mahela. Most number of catches - 218 catches by Mahela in 448 matches.[15] Highest partnership for third wicket – 226 by Marvan Atapattu & Mahela Jayawardene against India in 2000. Highest partnership for seventh wicket – 126* by Mahela Jayawardene & Upul Chandana against India in 2005. Twenty20 Internationals Mahela's Twenty20I century against Zimbabwe, is the first T20 international century by a Sri Lankan, and became the first Sri Lankan with hundreds in all forms of the game.[34] Highest aggregate of runs - 1493 runs by Mahela Jayawardena in 55 matches at an average of 31.76.[35] Most number of 4s - 173 by Mahela Jayawardena. Most number of 6s - 33 by Mahela Jayawardena. Other He is the first Sri Lankan and third overall to achieve hundreds in all forms of the game.[36] Most Run Outs Effected (since 1999 World Cup, first player credited in run out) – ODIs with 23 times.[37] Mahela is the only batsman in World Cup ODI history to score hundreds in both a semi final and a final of the tournament. Awards Test Cricket – Man of the Series awards In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping # Series Season Match Performance Result 1 Sri Lanka in England Test Series 2002 272 (3 Matches, 6 Innings); 2 Ct. Won the series 2–0 2 England in Sri Lanka Test Series 2007/08 474 (3 Matches, 4 Innings); 5 Ct. Won the series 1–0 Test Cricket – Man of the match awards In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping # Series Season Match Performance Result 1 1st Test – New Zealand in Sri Lanka 1997 1st Innings – 167 (4x18) 2nd Innings – 1 Ct. Won by 16 runs 2 2nd Test- Asian Test Championship 1998/99 1st Innings – 242 (4x30, 6x2) Match drawn 3 1st Test – South Africa in Sri Lanka 2004 1st Innings – 237 (4x25, 6x3); 1 Ct. 2nd Innings – 5; 1 Ct. Match drawn 4 2nd Test – Sri Lanka in England 2006 1st Innings – 61 (4x9); 2 Ct. 2nd Innings – 119 (4x12) Match drawn 5 1st Test – South Africa in Sri Lanka 2006 1st Innings – 374 (4x43, 6x1) 2nd Innings – 1 Ct. Won by 153 runs 6 2nd Test – South Africa in Sri Lanka 2006 1st Innings – 13 (4x2); 2 Ct. 2nd Innings – 123 (4x11, 6x2) Won by 1 wicket 7 2nd Test – England in Sri Lanka 2007/08 1st Innings – 195 (4x16, 6x1); 1 Ct. 2nd Innings – 1 Ct. Match drawn 8 3rd Test – England in Sri Lanka 2007/08 1st Innings – 213* (4x25); 1 Ct. 2nd Innings – 2 Ct.; Run out 1 Match drawn 9 2nd Test – South Africa in Sri Lanka 2014 1st Innings – 165 (4x17, 6x1); 2nd Innings – 2 Ct. Match drawn One-Day International Cricket – Man of the series awards # Series Season Match Performance Result 1 Khaleej Times Trophy (Pak, SL, Zim) in UAE 2001/02 252 (6 Matches); 2 Catches Won final by 5 wickets 2 Indian Oil Cup (Ind, SL, WI) in Sri Lanka 2005 230 (5 Matches); 1 Catch Won final by 18 runs 3 Warid Series (Pak, SL) in UAE 2007 162 (3 Matches) Won the series 2–1 4 Afro-Asia Cup (Asia XI, Africa XI) in India 2007 217 (3 Matches); 1 Catch Asia XI Won the series 3–0 One-Day International Cricket – Man of the Match Awards Runs Against City/Country Venue Result Year 1 120 England Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Oval  Sri Lanka won by 1 wicket 1999 2 101 Pakistan Visakhapatnam, India Indira Priyadarshini Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 12 runs 1999 3 101* England Colombo, Sri Lanka R. Premadasa Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 66 runs 2001 4 116 New Zealand Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 106 runs 2001 5 63 Zimbabwe Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 79 runs 2001 6 96 Zimbabwe Colombo, Sri Lanka R. Premadasa Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 59 runs 2001 7 106* West Indies Kandy, Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets 2001 8 94* India Dambulla, Sri Lanka Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets 2005 9 83 India Colombo, Sri Lanka R. Premadasa Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 18 runs 2005 10 50 Bangladesh Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sports Club Ground  Sri Lanka won by 88 runs 2005 11 126* England Chester-le-Street, England Riverside Ground  Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets 2006 12 100 England Manchester, England Old Trafford  Sri Lanka won by 33 runs 2006 13 115 New Zealand Jamaica, West Indies Sabina Park  Sri Lanka won by 81 runs 2007 (World Cup Semi Final) 14 100 Canada Hambantota, Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 210 runs 2011 ICC World Cup[38] 15 144 England Leeds, England Headingley Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 69 runs 2011 16 84* Australia Kennington, England Oval  Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets 2013 17 118 India Hyderabad, India Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium  India won by 6 wickets 2014 18 77* England Colombo, Sri Lanka R. Premadasa Stadium  Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets 2014 19 100 Afghanistan Dunedin, New Zealand University oval  Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets 2015 ICC World Cup Twenty20 International Cricket – Man of the match awards # Series Season Match Performance Result 1 2009 ICC World Twenty20 (IRE vs Sl) in England 2009 78 runs. won by 9 runs. 2 2010 ICC World Twenty20 (ZIM vs SL) in Guyana 2010 100 runs. won by 14 runs in D/L method. 3 2010 ICC World Twenty20 (WI vs SL) in Barbados 201q 98* runs. won by 57 runs. 4 Sri Lanka in England 2011 72* runs & 1 ct. won by 9 wickets. 5 2012 ICC World Twenty20 (WI vs SL) in Sri Lanka 2012 65* runs. won by 9 wickets. 6 2012 ICC World Twenty20 (PAK vs SL) in Sri Lanka 2012 42 runs & 1 ct. won by 16 runs. See also 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team 100 Runs Test Cricket Partnerships by Sri Lanka Ananda-Nalanda References ↑ Basevi, Travis (8 November 2005). "Statistics – Run outs in ODIs". Cricinfo. 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Cricket Archives.  External links CricInfo bio Mahela Jayawardene's profile page on Wisden http://www.sportskeeda.com/player/mahela-jayawardene/ Mahela Jayawardene Profile and latest news at Sportskeeda HOPE Cancer Project Preceded by Tillakaratne Dilshan Sri Lankan national cricket captain 2012–2013 Succeeded by Angelo Mathews Preceded by Marvan Atapattu Sri Lankan national cricket captain 2006–2009 Succeeded by Kumar Sangakkara Batsmen with 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket Australia Ricky Ponting (13,378) Allan Border (11,174) Steve Waugh (10,927) India Sachin Tendulkar (15,921) Rahul Dravid (13,288) Sunil Gavaskar (10,122) South Africa Jacques Kallis (13,289) Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara (12,203) Mahela Jayawardene (11,814) West Indies Brian Lara (11,953) Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,775) Current players are listed in italics. Batsmen with 10,000 or more runs in ODI cricket Australia Ricky Ponting (13,704) India Sachin Tendulkar (18,426) Sourav Ganguly (11,363) Rahul Dravid (10,889) Pakistan Inzamam-ul-Haq (11,739) South Africa Jacques Kallis (11,579) Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara (14,234) Sanath Jayasuriya (13,430) Mahela Jayawardene (12,650) West Indies Brian Lara (10,405) Sri Lanka captains Sri Lanka Test cricket captains 1981/82–1982/83: Warnapura 1981/82; 1982/83–1986/87: Mendis 1982/83: S. de Silva 1987/88–1988: Madugalle 1989/90–1998/99: Ranatunga 1991–1991/92; 1995/96; 1998/99: A. de Silva 1998/99–2003/04: Tillakaratne 1999–2002/03: Jayasuriya 2002/03; 2004–2005/06: Atapattu 2005/06–2012/13: Jayawardene 2009–2011: Sangakkara 2011–2011/12: Dilshan 2013-: Mathews Italics denote deputised captaincy Sri Lanka ODI cricket captains 1975–1979: Tennekoon 1979–1982/83: Warnapura 1981/82–1987/88: Mendis 1982/83: S. de Silva 1987/88–1988/89: Madugalle 1988/89–1999: Ranatunga 1988/89: Ratnayeke 1991/92–1995/96: A. de Silva 1993/94: Mahanama 1997/98–2002/03: Jayasuriya 2000/01–2005/06: Atapattu 2004–2013:Jayawardene 2006: Vaas 2009–2011: Sangakkara 2010–2012: Dilshan 2013-: Mathews 2013: Chandimal Sri Lanka T20I cricket captains 2006–2012: Jayawardene 2009–2011: Dilshan 2009/10: Sangakkara 2011: Kandamby 2012/13: Mathews 2013/14: Chandimal 2014-: Malinga Sri Lanka squads Sri Lanka squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Ranatunga (c) 2 Muralitharan 3 Atapattu 4 Jayawardene 5 Mahanama 6 Tillakaratne 7 Kaluwitharana (wk) 8 Vaas 9 De Silva 10 Wickramasinghe 11 Kalpage 12 Chandana 13 Upashantha 14 Hathurusingha 15 Jayasuriya Coach: Dias Sri Lanka squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup Semi-Finalists 1 Jayasuriya (c) 2 Atapattu 3 Jayawardene 4 Sangakkara (wk) 5 De Silva 6 Arnold 7 Mubarak 8 Tillakaratne 9 Muralitharan 10 Vaas 11 Fernando 12 Gunaratne 13 Gunawardene 14 Nissanka 15 Buddhika Coach: Whatmore Sri Lanka squad – 2007 Cricket World Cup Runners-Up 1 Jayawardene (c) 2 Atapattu 3 Jayasuriya 4 Tharanga 5 Sangakkara 6 Dilshan 7 Arnold 8 Silva 9 Maharoof 10 Vaas 11 Fernando 12 Malinga 13 Kulasekara 14 Muralitharan 15 Bandara Coach: Moody Sri Lanka squad – 2007 ICC World Twenty20 1 Jayawardene (c) 2 Dilshan 3 D Fernando 4 H Fernando 5 Jayasuriya 6 Lokuarachchi 7 Maharoof 8 Malinga 9 Mubarak 10 Perera 11 Sangakkara 12 Silva 13 Tharanga 14 Vaas 15 Wijekoon Muttiah Muralitharan was named in the original squad but injuries led to him being withdrawn. Dilruwan Perera was sent as his replacement. Sri Lanka squad – 2009 ICC World Twenty20 Runners-Up 1 Sangakkara (c) 2 de Saram 3 Dilshan 4 Jayasuriya 5 Jayawardene 6 Kulasekara 7 Maharoof 8 Malinga 9 Mathews 10 Mendis 11 Mubarak 12 Muralitharan 13 Silva 14 Thushara 15 Udana Coach: Bayliss Sri Lanka squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists 1 Thisara 2 Chandimal 3 Dilshan 4 Jayasinghe 5 Jayasuriya 6 Jayawardene 7 Kapugedera 8 Kulasekara 9 Malinga 10 Mathews 11 Mendis 12 Muralitharan 13 Sangakkara (c) 14 Randiv 15 Welegedara Coach: Bayliss Sri Lanka squad – 2011 Cricket World Cup Runners-Up 1 Sangakkara (c & wk) 2 Jayawardene 3 Dilshan 4 Tharanga 5 Samaraweera 6 Silva 7 Kapugedera 8 Randiv 9 Perera 10 Kulasekara 11 Fernando 12 Malinga 13 Mendis 14 Muralitharan 15 Herath Coach: Bayliss Suraj Randiv replaced Angelo Mathews due to injury Sri Lanka squad – 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Runners-Up 1 Perera 4 Dananjaya 9 J. Mendis 11 Sangakkara (wk) 14 Herath 17 Chandimal 22 Eranga 23 Dilshan 24 Munaweera 27 Jayawardene (c) 40 A. Mendis 66 Thirimanne 69 Mathews 92 Kulasekara 99 Malinga Coach: Ford Sri Lanka squad – 2014 ICC World Twenty20 (1st Title) 17 Chandimal (c) & (wk) 99 Malinga (vc) 23 Dilshan 14 Herath 27 Jayawardene 92 Kulasekara 82 Lakmal 69 Mathews 40 Mendis 8 MDKJ Perera 1 NLTC Perera 6 Prasanna 11 Sangakkara (wk) 18 Senanayake 66 Thirimanne Coach: Farbrace Sri Lanka squad – 2015 Cricket World Cup 1 Perera 9 Mendis 11 Sangakkara (wk) 14 Herath 16 Chameera 18 Senanayake 21 Karunaratne 23 Dilshan 27 Jayawardene 36 Chandimal (wk) 66 Thirimanne 69 Mathews (c) 82 Lakmal 92 Kulasekara 99 Malinga  Kaushal Coach: Atapattu Chameera was named as a replacement player for Dhammika Prasad & Kaushal was named as a replacement player for Rangana Herath. Mahela Jayawardene in domestic competitions Wayamba cricket team – current squad 1 T Perera 6 Udawatte 8 K Perera † 12 Welegedara 14 Herath 17 Udana 23 Lokuarachchi 24 Kulatunga 27 Jayawardene 28 Maharoof 40 Mendis 42 Mubarak (c) 44 de Zoysa † 69 Karunanayake — Hunukumbura † Coach: de Silva