Personal Information
Conceived: May 27 1977
Birth Place: Colombo
Nickname: M Jayawardene
Height: - -
Role: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Handed Bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium
Career Information :
Test debut: Aug 02, 1997, versus India, R.Premadasa Stadium
Last Test: Aug 14, 2014, versus Pakistan, Sinhalese Sports Club
ODI debut: Jan 24, 1998, versus Zimbabwe, R.Premadasa Stadium
Last ODI: Mar 18, 2015, versus South Africa, Sydney Cricket Ground
T20 debut: Jun 15, 2006, versus England, The Rose Bowl
IPL debut: vs Rajasthan Royals, Apr 21, 2008, Sawai Mansingh Stadium
Batting Career Summary
Bowling Career Summary
Profile
Mahela Jayawardene, a mind blowing professional overflowing class, has been the lynchpin of the Sri Lankan batting line-up for the most recent decade and then some. He proclaimed a consistent move to the new time of the Sri Lankan center request. Alongside Kumaa Sangakarra, he guaranteed the nonattendance of yesteryear greats, Aravinda de Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga was not really felt. A productive run-scorer, a sagacious mastermind of the diversion and a sharp defender, Jayawardene is one of the finest cricketers, the Island country has delivered. His accomplishments have been perceived by the universal cricketing society when in 2006, the ICC named him the Captain of the Year and the skipper of the World ODI group of the year. In 2007, he was named one of Wisden's five cricketers of the year.
Jayawardene made his introduction in the noteworthy 1997 Test match amongst India and Sri Lanka, in which the Lankans posted the most astounding ever add up to in history of 952/6 announced. Being a piece of this enormous exertion maybe increased his hunger for runs - he has scored six twofold hundreds including a triple, in the wake of scoring his first century in just his fourth Test on a mischievously turning Galle track against New Zealand.
He has had his offer of harsh patches - being dropped from the side in 2003 because of absence of structure in the ODIs, especially in the 2003 World Cup. Notwithstanding, he bounced back unequivocally on account of a decent arrangement against England, trailed by a strong 2004.
In 2006, the year in which he was made skipper for both Tests and ODIs, he scored a glorious 374 against South Africa, the most astounding individual score in Tests for a Sri Lankan. His record-breaking exertion came while being included in an organization of 624 with Kumara Sangakarra, the most elevated for any wicket in First-Class cricket, a point of interest that stands undimmed by the progression of time.
His most prominent minute as a chief was the 2007 World Cup, where he drove Sri Lanka to the last on the back of one century and four half-hundreds of years. . In a to some degree astounding choice, Jayawardene surrendered the captaincy taking after a 4-1 ODI drubbing to India in February 2009.
Jayawardene's batting is a wonderful thing and is a delight to watch. The august drives and adroit flicks keep on evoking stunningness and jealousy in liberal measures. He turned into the main Sri Lankan batsman to count 10,000 Test keeps running notwithstanding joining the thin, yet world class rundown of batsmen, who have aggregated a ton in every arrangement of the diversion. He has additionally amassed 10,000 or more keeps running in ODIs. Trust it or not, the truth of the matter is that Jayawardene is the main cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to have shown up. With his transcendent batting hoarding the spotlight, Jayawardene's light-footed handling and getting abilities tend to sneak by the radar. He has taken 413 gets crosswise over arrangements.
With Sri Lankan cricket winding up in desperate straits, taking after the takeoff of Muttiah Muralitharan, Jayawardene assumed control over the reins from Tillakaratne Dilshan in the 2011-12 season in the outcome of misfortunes in England, UAE, South Africa, with the most excruciating of all being the annihilation at home against Australia
Jayawardene commended his arrival to captaincy with a normally luxurious 180, his 21st Test ton, which thumped England off the roost. He likewise drove the Emerald Islanders to the World T20 2012 last at home. Exactly when one thought they would shed that endless bridesmaids tag that had turned into an obstacle, Sri Lanka again wavered at the last obstacle.
Before long, communicating his hesitance to bear on as chief, Jayawardene disregarded the cudgel to beneficiary obvious, Angelo Mathews. Strikingly, Jayawardene has a propensity for the enormous event. On the off chance that any questions reemerge over the previously stated point, glance back at the 2007 World Cup semi-last, 2011 World Cup last and the 2014 Asia Cup last.
In a period of independent clubbers of the ball, Jayawardene demonstrated that legitimate batsmanship could be similarly powerful, if not more, in T20 cricket. Having endured heartbreaks in a few finals of World occasions, Sri Lanka at last disregarded their bridesmaids tag on a children's story night in Mirpur in April 2014, pulsating India to assert their lady World T20 title in 2014. It likewise ended up being Jayawardene and Sangakkara's T20 swansong. Fittingly, the Sri Lankan expert closed down as the most noteworthy run-getter in T20Is.
More than the plenty of records, the greatest commitment of Jayawardene has been the rich qualities he has showered on Sri Lankan cricket. He is an exhaustive noble man to boot and is an impeccable good example for trying cricketers. He resigned from Tests in August 2014, after the two-match home arrangement against Pakistan. Be that as it may, he will keep on playing ODIs in a journey to win the 2015 World Cup. He played his last ODI innings at home on December 13, 2014 in the last session of the arrangement against England. Jayawardene scored 28 and even scalped James Tredwell, his eighth wicket in the organization. After a month in January 2015, Jayawardene scored his eighteenth ODI ton against New Zealand, his first century on New Zealand soil in his 17-year constrained overs profession.
Lesser known realities about Mahela:
1. Mahela had a more youthful sibling Dishal, who passed away at the young age of 16 on account of a risky mind tumor.
2. Mahela is a major aficionado of Tom Hanks with his most loved motion picture being Saving Private Ryan.
3. Mahela is amazingly attached to ocean bottom.
4. Holding hands with dear companion and partner, Kumar Sangakkara, who is likewise a major foodie, Mahela dispatched an ocean depths eatery called Ministry of Crab in the capital city of Colombo in the midst of much pomp in September 2012.
5. Mahela is hitched to Christina Mallika Sirisena, a travel expert.
