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6 unusual facts about Mahela Jayawardene


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The company sponsors many great former and current players like Inzamam ul Haq, Javed Miandad, Saeed Anwar, Moin Khan, Saleem Malik, Ijaz Ahmed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Michael Bevan, Mahela Jayawardene, Marvan Atapattu, Jacob Oram and Shakib Al Hasan.

Dharshan Munidasa

In December 2011, Munidasa in collaboration with close friends, Sri Lankan Cricketing Legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara opened the Ministry of Crab, housed in the recently refurbished 400-year-old ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ Shopping Precinct.

Gaddafi Stadium

Eight Sri Lankan players were injured, including Sri Lankan captain, Mahela Jayawardene.

Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene (born 1977), former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team

Ross Emerson

Mahela Jayawardene went on to score a century and the Sri Lankans won in the last over.

Sri Lankan cricket team in Bangladesh in 2013–14

Mahela Jayawardene made his 33rd Test century and his 7th Test double-century in the first innings of the 1st Test.


Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1998

Despite being able to enforce the follow-on, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene.

Sri Lankan cricket team in New Zealand in 2005–06

Mahela Jayawardene lasted 10 balls before he, too, was caught, and the three New Zealand seamers Shane Bond, Kyle Mills and Jacob Oram had a wicket each.


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