Mahela Jayawardene highest score – Test | T20 | ODI

Mahela Jayawardene is a very good cricket batsman. Mahela Jayawardene is a right-hand batsman who plays for Sri Lanka in all formats of cricket. He is very famous for his classic cricketing shots and is one of the best batsmen in the history of cricket. He is also a former captain of Sri Lanka and is now the consultant coach of the Sri Lankan national cricket team. Mahela Jayawardene has scored the most runs in an ODI match. Which was
Run144 runs, which was played against England.

Mahela Jayawardene Player Profile

Personal Information

Name	Mahela Jayawardene
Full Name	Denagamage Mahela de silva Jayawardene
DOB	27 May 1977
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Age	46 Years
Birthplace	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting Style	Right-Hand Batsman
Height	5  ft 6 inches
Role in Team	Batsman

Mahela Jayawardene highest score in ODI

Mahela Jayawardene played his first international match in 1998 against Zimbabwe. He has played a total of 448 matches in his ODI cricket career and has scored 12650 runs. His average is 33.38. He has hit 1119 fours and 76 sixes. He has scored 19 centuries and 77 half-centuries.He is the second Sri Lankan player to score more than 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. Jayawardene (batsman) and Muralitharan (bowler) have always taken the Sri Lankan team forward.

Mahela Jayawardene’s highest score in ODI IDI was 144 runs. He scored this run in the match played on 1 July 2011. He had scored 144 runs in 150 balls. He also hit 14 fours and 0 sixes. His playing strike rate was 96.00. Sri Lanka had scored 309 runs with Mahela’s 144 runs. In the Lakes match, England lost by getting bowled out for 240 runs. Sri Lanka won the match by 69 runs and Mahela was declared man of the match.

Top 5 Mahela Jayawardene highest score in ODI

Runs Scored	Ball Faced	Against	Date	Edition
144	150	England	1 July	2011
128	123	India	27 October	2000
123	108	Pakistan	3 August	2009
116	129	New Zealand	10 April	2001
108	117	Bangladesh	8 January	2010

Mahela Jayawardene highest score in test

Jayawardene played his first Test match against India in Colombo in 1997. He played a total of 149 matches and scored 11814 runs, with an average of around 49.84. He hit a total of 1387 fours and 61 sixes in his career. He has 34 centuries and 50 half-centuries.

Jayawardene has played many big innings for his team, but his highest scoring Test innings was in 2006. He had then scored 374 runs. This match was played against Sri Lanka with South Africa in Colombo. Jayawardene played 572 balls in this innings and his strike rate was 65.38 runs per innings. He hit 43 fours and 1 six in this innings.

Jayawardene’s highest Test score is the fourth highest in the history of Test cricket. He is the first Sri Lankan captain to score a triple Test century and his 374 runs are the highest score. Let’s see Mahela Jayawardene’s top 5 test scores:

Mahela Jayawardene top 5 test scores

Runs Scored	Ball Faced	Against	Date	Edition
374	572	South Africa	27-31 July	2006
275	435	India	16-20 November	2009
240	424	Pakistan	21-25 February	2009
213	411	England	18-22 December	2007
203	272	Bangladesh	27-30 January	2014

Mahela Jayawardene highest score in T20

Jayawardene played his first T20 International in 2006 against England. He has played 55 matches in his T20 career and scored 1121 runs with an average of 31.76. In total he hit 173 fours and 33 sixes. He has 1 century and 9 half-centuries in his career.

Jayawardene became the first Sri Lankan player to score a century in T20 International cricket. His highest score in a T20 match came against Zimbabwe in the 2010 World Cup. In which he scored 100 runs in 64 balls, which included 43 fours and 1 six. He is counted among the brilliant batsmen in all formats of cricket.

He has also played for several teams in various fantasy leagues around the world. He is the current head coach of the Mumbai Indians franchise in the Indian Premier League.

Let’s take a look at Mahela Jayawardene’s batting statistics and top 5 highest scores in IPL:

• Batting stats of Mahela Jayawardene

Format	Matchs	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
IPL	80	1802	110*	28.60	123.26	1	10	200	39

• Jayawardene Top 5 highest score in IPL

Runs Scored	Ball Faced	Against	Date	Edition
110	59	Kolkata Knight Riders	4 April	2010
93	62	Deccan Chargers	16 April	2010
76	52	Punjab Kings	13 May	2011
66	52	Kolkata Knight Riders	3 April	2013
59	43	Mumbai  Indians	21 April	2013

Mahela Jayawardene captaincy

Mahela Jayawardene has also played many important roles in his career as the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He has also received respect for his captaincy skills. In 2006, when Marwan Atapattu was on the England tour, Jayawardene captained the team in his absence. Under his leadership, he made the team the Asia Cup winner in 2008. Jayawardene also became the first Sri Lankan captain to score three hundred runs in Test cricket three times.

Let’s have a look at the captaincy stats of Mahela Jayawardene:-

• Mahela Jayawardene captaincy stats

Format	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	No result
Test	149	58	46	45	0	_
ODI	448	241	186	_	3	17
T20	55	37	17	_	1	_