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RSSMahela Jayawardene - Sri Lanka’s best bet at World Cup 2011
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If there is one man Sri Lanka is banking upon to win the Cricket World Cup 2011, it is no one but Mahela Jayawardene. Born on 27 May 1977 as Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene, Mahela Jayawardene is the former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team with an admirable ODI average of 30s and test cricket average of 50s.
The right handed batsman has played in 116 tests (9,527 runs at a batting average of 53.82) and 332 one day internationals (9,119 runs at a batting average of 32.68). Though his averages do not say much about his class, temperament, style, and elegance, the crafty batsman is one player every team in this world would like to have. He made his Test debut in the record breaking Test in 1997 against India at R.P.S., Colombo and his One Day International debut was against Zimbabwe at Premadasa in January 1998.
The specialist batsman is rated by many as one of the best batsmen produced by Sri Lanka and this is clear from the fact that he was named by the International Cricket Council as the best international captain of the year and nominated in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year. If that was not all, Jayawardene also has the distinction of effecting the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fifth highest run-out/match ratio in ODI’s, since the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
