Mahela Jayawardene
Mahela Jayawardene
Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene, known as Mahela Jayawardene, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is widely regarded as one of the greats of modern cricket due to his masterful technician oozing class of batting, regarded amongst the best batsman against spin, along with his long time team mate and friend, Kumar Sangakkara and a legend in the history of the game. Jayawardene's highest test score, 374 against South Africa...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth27 May 1977
CityColombo, Sri Lanka
We just needed to take it easy with Vaas as he comes back and we didn't want to do too much with him too early in the tour.
Marvin and I have been a partnership for quite some time now, so our thinking is in the same direction. It is a temporary thing for me to take the team.
We played bad cricket yesterday and that one hour was really disappointing.
We have to take one session at a time and try and be ahead after the first six sessions which is the first two days of the test match. Especially against Pakistan, experience shows that if you give them early advantage they are going to run away with that.
We never take Bangladesh lightly, they are more competitive now. We have to win the series.
We lost wickets in the middle of our innings and lost the momentum from then on. After starting well, we needed to score at least 250 on this pitch.
We came here without some main players, but at the end, we finished the series easily. The young players showed a lot of character.
We want to win everything we play. So we are here for win with a high confidence.
It was one of the best Australian summers for Sri Lanka ever. Brett was bowling very quick, on very quick tracks, but we settled ourselves and knew exactly what to do. We worked very hard to get used to those conditions, and we will do the same here.
It was a very good moment for team.
It was a very difficult day for us,
We shouldn't take anything away from him, he batted really well - to bat for eight hours and nearly 400 balls is a magnificent effort.
We are confident to win all matches here but we will not take Bangladesh lightly.
We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.