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Mahela Jayawardene stats

Data through 25 February 2017Last updated 25 February 2017

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 27 June 2002 to 25 February 2017. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Between 2002 and 2017, Mahela Jayawardene appears in 79 Tests, 283 ODIs, 53 T20Is for Sri Lanka in the Cricsheet data. In ODIs Mahela Jayawardene scored 8,069 runs in 264 innings (average 33.48, strike rate 80.7), including 12 hundreds and 51 fifties. Against Bangladesh in Tests, Mahela Jayawardene averaged 75.18 over 13 innings.

International matches

415

Tests 79 · ODIs 283 · T20Is 53

International runs

16,142

34 hundreds

T20 league & domestic matches

119

2,568 runs

Best batting average (Test)

50.50

137 innings

Highest score

374

Test

Teams played for

Sri Lanka 2002–2015 · 411Punjab Kings 2008–2010 · 36Delhi Capitals 2012–2013 · 31Somerset 2016 · 15Kochi Tuskers Kerala 2011 · 13Jamaica Tallawahs 2015 · 9Adelaide Strikers 2015–2016 · 7Sussex 2015 · 7Asia XI 2005–2007 · 4Trinbago Knight Riders 2013 · 3Dhaka Dynamites 2016 · 2Karachi Kings 2017 · 1

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Mahela Jayawardene batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	79	137	6	6,615	374	50.50	12,899	51.3	21	25	11	733	35
ODI	283	264	23	8,069	144	33.48	9,993	80.7	12	51	15	741	52
T20I	53	53	8	1,458	100	32.40	1,100	132.5	1	9	3	167	33
T20 (leagues & domestic)	119	115	16	2,568	110*	25.94	2,079	123.5	1	15	5	287	56
List A	5	5	1	240	117*	60.00	250	96.0	1	1	0	26	2

Runs per year

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Mahela Jayawardene: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2002	29
2003	413
2004	470
2005	320
2006	1,978
2007	2,066
2008	1,251
2009	2,313
2010	1,698
2011	1,953
2012	2,021
2013	1,150
2014	1,993
2015	647
2016	638
2017	10

Year-by-year batting (45 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2002	ODI	1	29	29.00	78.4	29	0	0
2003	ODI	16	279	18.60	59.4	56	0	2
2003	Test	1	134	134.00	54.5	134	1	0
2004	ODI	14	381	31.75	71.1	61	0	1
2004	Test	2	89	44.50	59.7	68	0	1
2005	ODI	10	184	20.44	80.7	50	0	1
2005	Test	6	136	22.67	50.7	63	0	2
2006	ODI	29	1067	44.46	86.9	126	2	7
2006	T20I	3	11	5.50	110.0	9	0	0
2006	Test	18	900	52.94	54.0	374	3	1
2007	ODI	27	925	37.00	81.2	115	2	6
2007	T20I	5	159	39.75	152.9	65	0	1
2007	Test	11	982	98.20	55.3	213	5	1
2008	ODI	23	581	27.67	71.2	94	0	6
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	179	25.57	136.6	45	0	0
2008	T20I	1	5	5.00	41.7	5	0	0
2008	Test	9	486	60.75	55.8	136	2	2
2009	ODI	24	669	27.88	83.8	123	1	3
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	219	36.50	132.7	52	0	1
2009	T20I	12	231	21.00	123.5	78	0	1
2009	Test	20	1194	62.84	52.2	275	3	3
2010	ODI	15	509	42.42	79.9	108	1	4
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	439	43.90	147.3	110	1	1
2010	T20I	9	343	42.88	156.6	100	1	2
2010	Test	8	407	50.88	52.7	174	1	3
2011	ODI	23	968	46.10	81.6	144	3	6
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	299	23.00	116.3	76	0	3
2011	T20I	3	169	84.50	129.0	86	0	2
2011	Test	21	517	24.62	42.1	105	1	2
2012	ODI	27	785	31.40	88.3	85	0	6
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	335	27.92	112.4	56	0	3
2012	T20I	9	271	33.88	117.3	65	0	1
2012	Test	19	630	35.00	44.6	180	2	3
2013	ODI	19	557	32.76	81.4	107	1	2
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	18	345	19.17	104.2	66	0	2
2013	T20I	5	111	27.75	138.8	61	0	1
2013	Test	4	137	34.25	55.5	72	0	2
2014	ODI	26	832	33.28	81.7	118	1	6
2014	T20I	6	158	31.60	125.4	89	0	1
2014	Test	18	1003	59.00	50.8	203	3	5
2015	ODI	10	303	30.30	92.7	104	1	1
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	18	344	19.11	116.6	53	0	2
2016	List A	5	240	60.00	96.0	117	1	1
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	398	28.43	134.5	57	0	3
2017	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	10	10.00	125.0	10	0	0

Mahela Jayawardene bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	Mdns
Test	7	167	96	2	1/10	1/10	48.00	3.45	83.5	6
ODI	5	67	63	1	1/5	–	63.00	5.64	67.0	0
T20I	1	6	8	0	–	–	–	8.00	–	0

Wickets per year

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Mahela Jayawardene: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2002	0
2003	0
2004	0
2005	0
2006	0
2007	0
2008	0
2009	2
2010	0
2011	0
2012	0
2013	0
2014	1
2015	0
2016	0
2017	0

Year-by-year bowling (11 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2003	ODI	1	0	–	4.00	0/8
2004	ODI	1	0	–	5.33	0/16
2005	Test	1	0	–	2.33	0/14
2006	ODI	1	0	–	7.50	0/15
2006	T20I	1	0	–	8.00	0/8
2007	ODI	1	0	–	8.14	0/19
2007	Test	1	0	–	2.00	0/4
2009	Test	3	2	30.00	4.68	1/10
2011	Test	1	0	–	5.00	0/5
2014	ODI	1	1	5.00	2.73	1/5
2014	Test	1	0	–	2.17	0/13

Mahela Jayawardene against each team

vs India vs Pakistan vs Australia vs England vs New Zealand vs South Africa vs Bangladesh vs West Indies vs Zimbabwe

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
England	Test	25	1469	61.21	48.7	213	6	5
Pakistan	Test	32	1050	35.00	47.6	240	2	4
India	Test	17	997	62.31	54.0	275	3	4
Bangladesh	Test	13	827	75.18	60.9	203	3	2
South Africa	Test	13	820	63.08	55.9	374	3	0
Australia	Test	17	644	37.88	46.3	105	2	5
New Zealand	Test	13	482	37.08	46.3	114	1	3
West Indies	Test	7	326	46.57	57.1	136	1	2
India	ODI	59	1694	30.80	78.2	118	3	9
Australia	ODI	42	1365	35.92	78.1	86	0	14
England	ODI	32	1172	40.41	86.4	144	3	7
Pakistan	ODI	32	1014	32.71	78.6	123	1	7
New Zealand	ODI	30	880	33.85	81.0	115	2	4
South Africa	ODI	21	486	24.30	73.3	77	0	2
Bangladesh	ODI	16	463	30.87	85.4	108	1	2
West Indies	ODI	14	395	35.91	78.5	82	0	3
Africa XI	ODI	4	217	72.33	102.4	107	1	1
Zimbabwe	ODI	8	91	11.38	54.5	28	0	0
New Zealand	T20I	12	301	33.44	137.4	81	0	1
England	T20I	5	213	53.25	136.5	89	0	2
Australia	T20I	8	209	29.86	126.7	86	0	2
West Indies	T20I	6	202	50.50	133.8	98	0	2
Pakistan	T20I	7	109	15.57	96.5	42	0	0
India	T20I	5	75	15.00	129.3	26	0	0
South Africa	T20I	4	52	13.00	144.4	33	0	0
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	451	56.38	133.4	110	1	3
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	261	29.00	129.9	59	0	3
Deccan Chargers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	219	54.75	151.0	93	0	1
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	189	23.62	130.3	55	0	1
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	183	45.75	116.6	76	0	2
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	163	14.82	107.9	44	0	0
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	T20 (leagues & domestic)	9	140	23.33	104.5	28	0	0
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	120	20.00	108.1	38	0	0
Gloucestershire	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	108	36.00	127.1	43	0	0
Pune Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	53	10.60	98.1	18	0	0
Middlesex	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	23	7.67	104.5	18	0	0
Trinbago Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	20	6.67	100.0	16	0	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
England	Test	3	0	–	2.44	0/4

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	22	1862	93.10	374
Galle International Stadium	23	1295	58.86	213
R Premadasa Stadium	45	1139	26.49	94
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	25	927	44.14	123
Shere Bangla National Stadium	14	651	54.25	203
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	22	562	28.10	86
Lord's	13	535	41.15	119
P Sara Oval	12	482	43.82	123
Providence Stadium	6	444	74.00	136
National Stadium, Karachi	9	415	46.11	240

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
R Premadasa Stadium	1	1	5.00	2.73
Galle International Stadium	1	1	10.00	2.50
National Stadium, Karachi	1	1	41.00	6.00

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	1540	1220	126.2	53	–	–	–
T20	Middle	1852	1552	119.3	65	–	–	–
T20	Death	634	407	155.8	26	6	0	8.00
ODI	Powerplay	1229	1739	70.7	37	14	0	8.14
ODI	Middle	5977	7542	79.2	164	42	0	5.57
ODI	Death	863	712	121.2	40	11	1	2.73

How Mahela Jayawardene was dismissed

Caught329 (63%)
Bowled67 (13%)
Lbw56 (11%)
Run out42 (8%)
Caught and bowled14 (3%)
Stumped12 (2%)

How Mahela Jayawardene took wickets

Stumped1
Lbw1
Caught1

Last 20 innings

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Mahela Jayawardene: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
8 Jan 2016	53
21 Jan 2016	7
1 Jun 2016	51
3 Jun 2016	6
17 Jun 2016	24
19 Jun 2016	45
23 Jun 2016	0
1 Jul 2016	41
7 Jul 2016	2
8 Jul 2016	36
15 Jul 2016	18
22 Jul 2016	16
24 Jul 2016	37
26 Jul 2016	28
30 Jul 2016	3
2 Aug 2016	55
17 Aug 2016	117
11 Nov 2016	11
26 Nov 2016	31
25 Feb 2017	10

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
25 Feb 2017	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Lahore Qalandars	10	8	run out	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
26 Nov 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Comilla Victorians	31	27	bowled	Shere Bangla National Stadium
11 Nov 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajshahi Kings	11	14	caught	Shere Bangla National Stadium
17 Aug 2016	List A	Worcestershire	117*	111	not out	County Ground, Taunton
2 Aug 2016	List A	Hampshire	55	62	caught	The Rose Bowl
30 Jul 2016	List A	Sussex	3	12	caught	County Ground, Taunton
26 Jul 2016	List A	Middlesex	28	31	caught	County Ground, Taunton
24 Jul 2016	List A	Glamorgan	37	34	bowled	County Ground, Taunton
22 Jul 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Glamorgan	16	10	caught	Sophia Gardens
15 Jul 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Middlesex	18	16	caught	County Ground, Bristol
8 Jul 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Surrey	36	23	caught	Kennington Oval
7 Jul 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kent	2	6	caught	County Ground, Bristol
1 Jul 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Gloucestershire	41	34	caught	County Ground, Bristol
23 Jun 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Middlesex	0	1	caught	Lord's
19 Jun 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Hampshire	45*	32	not out	County Ground, Bristol
17 Jun 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Gloucestershire	24	21	caught and bowled	County Ground, Bristol
3 Jun 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Essex	6	5	bowled	County Ground, Bristol
1 Jun 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Sussex	51	34	caught	County Ground, Bristol
21 Jan 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Sydney Thunder	7	6	caught	Adelaide Oval
8 Jan 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Brisbane Heat	53	30	lbw	The Gabba

Batter vs bowler matchups

Bowlers Mahela Jayawardene faced most

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Mahela Jayawardene scored in Tests?

6,615 runs in 137 innings (79 matches) at an average of 50.50 and a strike rate of 51.3, in the data from 2003 to 2014.

How many runs has Mahela Jayawardene scored in ODIs?

8,069 runs in 264 innings (283 matches) at an average of 33.48 and a strike rate of 80.7, in the data from 2002 to 2015.

How many runs has Mahela Jayawardene scored in T20Is?

1,458 runs in 53 innings (53 matches) at an average of 32.40 and a strike rate of 132.5, in the data from 2006 to 2014.

What is Mahela Jayawardene's highest score?

374 in Tests, the highest score in the data.

How many centuries has Mahela Jayawardene scored?

36 hundreds in the data: 21 in Tests, 12 in ODIs, 1 in T20Is, 1 in T20 leagues, 1 in List A.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.