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
The one-day series is gone and we cannot dwell on 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.
That's how the game goes and I don't want to say anything beyond that.
We never take Bangladesh lightly, they are more competitive now. We have to win the series.
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.
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.
Chaminda (Vaas) is going to be very important for the England tour (in May) and we don't want to take any risks with him so he'll only play if he's 100 percent fit for the match.
Honestly I did not think in the morning that the pitch would play that bad. When we started playing, we found it difficult. The ball was doing a lot, stopping and all that.
I am not happy at all. Our star batsmen failed to play big innings.
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 should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.
The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.
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.