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Sunday, 5 July 2015

Mahela Jayawardene Batsman in Sri Lanka

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Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene was born on 27 May 1977. He known as Mahela Jayawardene, he is a professional Sri Lankan Cricketer Team Player and formerly captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He current plays for Sussex CCC in the ECB T20 competition. He retired from all international forms of the game on 18 March 2015.

Jayawardene made his Test cricket debut in 1997. 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 best cricketer sri lanka player. His role is batsman. 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. He 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.