Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene born 27 May 1977, referred to as Mahela Jayawardene, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket crew. He is seemed as one of the cutting-edge greats of batsmanship, particularly because of his mastery of playing spin bowling. Jayawardene's maximum take a look at rating, 374 towards South Africa is the highest take a look at rating with the aid of a proper handed batsman in the records of take a look at cricket. It is likewise seemed as the highest without a doubt hazard-less innings via a batsman in test cricket history.
Jayawardene made his Test cricket debut in 1997 and his One Day International (ODI) debut the following season. In 2006 he made the very best ever rating with the aid of a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, scoring 374 inside the second Test of Sri Lanka's home series towards South Africa. He has a check cricket common of over 50 and a One Day average inside the 30s. He is the first participant within the records of Sri Lankan cricket to attain over 10,000 Test runs. Despite his notably low ODI average, Jayawardene is taken into consideration to be one of the pleasant batsmen produced through Sri Lanka.
He is certainly one of only four Sri Lankans—the others being Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan—to have the prestigious file of having scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. Along with teammate Sangakkara, he recorded for the maximum partnership runs for the 3rd wicket in Tests, scoring 5890 runs surpassing 5826 run stand of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, for the duration of the primary take a look at healthy against Pakistan at Galle International Stadium, which turned into his last check on the venue. He scored 56 runs at that match, in which his counterpart scored 221 runs.
Jayawardene was a key member of the group that received the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and became a part of the crew 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 became named by way of the International Cricket Council because the exceptional international captain of the yr and become nominated in 2007 because the nice Test cricket participant of the year. He is likewise recognised for his fielding talents within the inner ring, with a file prepared by means of Cricinfo in overdue 2005 showing that for the reason that 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had affected the maximum wide variety of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the 5th highest run-out/healthy ratio in ODI's. Statistics additionally display that c Jayawardene b Muralitharan is the maximum not unusual bowler-fielder combination within the records of Test cricket.
Jayawardene is presently working as an worldwide TV commentator with the primary check at Headingley on 19 May 2016 among England and Sri Lanka
Personal life
Jayawardene become born to Sunila and Senerath Jayawardene at Colombo in 1977. He had one younger brother, Dhishal who died of a brain tumour, elderly 16. This affected Jayawardene psychologically, halting his cricket career for a while. Eventually he was persuaded to move on and set about rebuilding his profession by means of his parents and teammates.
Jayawardene is married to Christina Mallika Sirisena, a travel consultant. They have a daughter.