List of worldwide cricket centuries through Mahela Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene is a retired Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket group. He has been described as one of the fine batsmen produced through the u . S ..[1][2] Jayawardene become the leading run-scorer for Sri Lanka in Tests, after fellow Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara passed him, and Mahela has scored 35 centuries.[3] He has scored 19 centuries in his One Day International (ODI) career, and is the fourth-maximum run-scorer for Sri Lanka.[4] On nine November, 2014, he scored his seventeenth ODI century towards India and additionally became simplest the 5th participant to score 12,000 runs in One Day Internationals, after Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting & teammate Kumar Sangakkara. He is the very best scorer for the country in Twenty20 International (T20I) suits as well, and has scored one century.[5] Jayawardene become selected as captain of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) World One Day International crew and decided on as Captain of the Year at the 2006 ICC Awards.[6] He was identified as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2007,[7] and become a member of the ICC World Test group the subsequent yr.[8]

Jayawardene's debut Test suit became in opposition to India in August 1997, wherein the Sri Lankan team made a global document 952 runs for 6 wickets.[9] He scored his maiden Test century in his fourth fit, played in June 1998 in opposition to New Zealand.[10] The a hundred and fifty he scored against Bangladesh in September 2001 is the quickest Test century made by way of a Sri Lankan participant.[11] However, this innings came to an unusual cease whilst he retired out simply after achieving a hundred and fifty runs.[N 1][15] Jayawardene's satisfactory innings became made in opposition to South Africa in July 2006 whilst he scored 374 runs, surpassing Sanath Jayasuriya's file of 340 for the best person score with the aid of a Sri Lankan batsman.[16] It is also the fourth-maximum rating in Test cricket,[17] as well as part of the world's highest Test partnership—624 runs—which he established with teammate Kumar Sangakkara.[18] Jayawardene has scored a complete of 34 centuries in the course of his career, the second one highest number by means of a Sri Lankan player, after Kumar Sangakkara.[19] He has scored extra than 2 hundred runs on seven of these occasions. This is the second one-maximum number of double centuries by means of a Sri Lankan participant, behind Kumar Sangakkara.[20] He is likewise considered one of simplest three players who have scored a triple century for Sri Lanka; the other two being Jayasuriya and Sangakkara.[21]

Jayawardene made his ODI debut in opposition to Zimbabwe on 24 January 1998, and scored his first century a 12 months later, against England on 23 January 1999.[22] Although not as illustrious as his Test centuries, he has seeing that made 19 ODI centuries for Sri Lanka. This is the fourth-maximum number of centuries for Sri Lanka by a unmarried participant at the back of Jayasuriya's 28, Sangakkara's 21, and Dilshan's 20.[23] On 10 June 2007, Jayawardene scored 107 runs for the Asia XI crew, which he captained all through the 2007 Afro-Asia Cup.[24] Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who scored an unbeaten 139 within the identical in shape, and Jayawardene are the handiest gamers who've scored a century for Asia XI.[25] Jayawardene became the sixth player to attain a century at a Cricket World Cup Final with an unbeaten 103 in opposition to India all through the final suit of the 2011 Cricket World Cup.[N 2] However, Sri Lanka misplaced the fit, making Jayawardene the primary centurion in a lost cause at a World Cup final.[27]

Jayawardene made his T20I debut towards England on 15 June 2006, and scored his first century towards Zimbabwe on 3 May 2010.[28] Jayawardene was the fourth player to score a century in a T20I, and the primary Sri Lankan to accomplish that.[29]