mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 An injury to Marvan Atapattu pushed Jayawardene to the helm in February 2006
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Though he led Sri Lanka to a 2-0 win in Bangladesh, they lost the next series against Pakistan at home
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Lord's continued to yield runs for Jayawardene - he scored 61 and 119 in the drawn first Test
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Though he didn't score much at Trent Bridge, Jayawardene led Sri Lanka to their second win in England in 22 years. The teams shared the series 1-1
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Buoyed by the success in England, Jayawardene returned to Sri Lanka and set about scoring his Test best. He became the second Sri Lankan to score a triple-century and added a whopping 624 runs with Kumar Sangakkara in the first Test against South Africa - the highest partnership for any wicket
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 In December that year, he led Sri Lanka to their first win in New Zealand since 1995. The Test series was drawn 1-1
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 The year 2007 was phenomenal for Jayawardene in Tests. He scored his first hundred in Australia, and ended the year averaging 98.20 from eight Tests with five hundreds and a half-century
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Another first for Sri Lanka under his captaincy was a Test win in West Indies. Jayawardene played his part with a century in the 121-run win in Guyana
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 He scored a hundred in his 99th Test, one that Sri Lanka were in danger of losing after Mohammad Ashraful scored a century in attempting to chase 522
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Jayawardene's 100th Test was in Chittagong, in January 2009. While he could not repeat his personal success from the previous Test, he led Sri Lanka to the series sweep
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Two double-centuries followed in the year: 240 v Pakistan in Karachi, and 275 v India in Ahmedabad. However, it was also the year he gave up the Test captaincy ...
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 ... handing the reins over to his good friend Kumar Sangakkara, who won his first Test in charge, against Pakistan in Galle
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 Another landmark series for Jayawardene came in March 2012, when he scored 180, 5, 105 and 64 in a two Tests at home against England. The 180, in Galle, was his 30th Test hundred and, significantly, it was the series with which he began a second short stint as captain
mtkr Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Posted August 13, 2014 However, after Sri Lanka lost five of ten Tests under him - including a game to New Zealand at the P Sara Oval, which was their first victory in Sri Lanka in 14 years and helped them come back from 0-1 down to level the series - Jayawardene gave up captaincy for the last time
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