MAHELA JAYAWARDENE: Will He Retire With A 50+ Test Average ?

37 year old Mahela Jayawardene wants to play 4 more test matches---2 versus South Africa in July and 2 versus Pakistan in August 2014. He will then retire from tests. Jayawardene has had an illustrious test career. In 145 tests to date he has scored 11,493 runs at an average of 50.18 with 33 hundreds and 48 fifties.

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* Jayawardene needs 507 runs to reach 12,000 in tests.

* Only 5 batsmen in history have scored more runs than Jayawardene----Tendulkar, Ponting, Kallis, Dravid and Lara.

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* Jayawardene's highest test score was 374 versus South Africa in Sri Lanka.

* In 145 tests to date, Jayawardene has never been stumped.


GIVE PRAISE TO MAHELA JAYAWARDENE ON A REMARKABLE TEST CAREER.


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11,493 runs at an average of 50.18 with 33 hundreds and 48 fifties.

* Those are some huge numbers Jayawardene has put up in his test career.

* He is lucky he didn't play for the West Indies.

* Jealous cretins like Colin Croft would have been bawling and screaming for him to be dropped.

* Jayawardene has chosen to retire on his own terms.

* He informed chief selector Jayasuriya that he wanted to play in 4 more tests then retire.

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NOTE:

* Jayawardene will continue playing in onedayers.

* In 420 onedayers, Jayawardene has scored 11,681 runs at an average of 32.90, a strike rate of 78,  with 16 hundreds and 72 fifties .

* Had Jayawardene been playing for the West Indies, Chief selector Butts and head coach Gibson would have kicked him out already.

* The #8 ranked WI One day team is very prejudiced against older performers----they prefer young cricketers who can lash a few balls then get out.

* So Jayawardene is good enough for #3 ranked Sri Lanka but would not be good enough for #8 ranked West Indies.

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a great batsman

* For many West Indians---only Lara great---only Viv great---only Sobers great.

* No question Lara, Viv and Sobers are EXTRAORDINARY GREATS

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the other 2 extraordinary batting greats are Bradman and Tendulkar.

* But there are also ORDINARY GREATS----any batsman who has score 6000+ test runs @ 50+ average.

* Mahela Jayawardene qualifies as an ORDINARY GREAT.

Click on the link:

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Rev

He is a Buddha ....that keeps silent on the genocide of Tamil hindus :

Fcuk him  >

I WISH alll of Buddha Lanka stats are erased ....

Shanti!  Shanti!  Shanti!

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* Aren't muslims supposed to be kind and considerate during fasting and Ramadan ? 

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I have restrained myself thruout these many runs;

Retire and get Lost ....take Sanga wid U  .

Justice will Prevail and the good Lord Rama will build anodda BRIDGE :

and rescue his Devotees from the clutches of the evil , Buddha 

Disclaimer : Buddha may be a good Incarnate .

Sinhalese folks may be the real Culprits against the Tamil !