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
No problems with him right now, I can say there is 90 percent chance of him playing tomorrow morning.
I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngsters, so hopefully we can give them some exposure. We have not played Bangladesh for quite a while and we are very much looking forward to this tour.
We came here without some main players, but at the end, we finished the series easily. The young players showed a lot of character.
He is a player that is maturing fast and the challenge for him now is to work hard on his bowling and batting.
We played bad cricket yesterday and that one hour was really disappointing.
We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.
It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.
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.
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.
The one-day series is gone and we cannot dwell on that.
That's how the game goes and I don't want to say anything beyond that.
This is going to be a tough tour but a great opportunity for us to learn, both as a team and also as individuals.
It was a very good moment for team.
It was a very difficult day for us,