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Mahela Jayawardene
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
DPMD Jayawardene is a Sri Lanka Cricket stalwart who also built an extensive franchise career across the IPL, CPL, BPL, PSL and English county cricket. His 390 appearances for Sri Lanka form the backbone of a 467-match career that produced 17,820 runs at an average of 38.99. The primary competition in our dataset is the One-Day International, where he played 264 matches and scored 8,069 runs at a strike rate of 80.75. His most recent recorded appearances came during the 2016 Vitality Blast with Somerset and a PSL outing in February 2017.
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Bat Avg
39.0
Bowl Avg
55.7
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Punjab Kings · All-Rounder
Recent form
Jayawardene's final ten recorded appearances, spread across the PSL, BPL and Vitality Blast between June 2016 and February 2017, produced scores ranging from 0 to 45 not out, with none exceeding that
Strongest format
One-Day International — With 264 ODI appearances, 8,069 runs and a strike rate of 80.75, the 50-over format accounts for by far the largest portion of Jayawardene's career ou
Career stats overview
78 Test · 264 ODI · 125 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
78 matches
6,615
Runs scored
2
Wickets taken
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
264 matches
8,069
Runs scored
1
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
125 matches
3,136
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
215
wickets
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
112
wickets
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
38.4
batting avg
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
198
wkts in 48 M
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
14
five-wicket hauls
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
2
finals played
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
17,820 runs across 467 career appearances
Jayawardene accumulated 17,820 runs from 467 matches across formats and franchise competitions worldwide. His overall batting average of 38.99 and career strike rate of 70.29 reflect a player who combined accumulation with tempo across a long international and domestic career.
Test average of 51.28 across 78 matches
In 78 Test matches, Jayawardene averaged 51.28 from 6,615 runs, making the longer format his most productive by average. That figure holds up across nearly a decade of Test cricket and places him among the most consistent performers Sri Lanka have produced in the format.
Average of 52.85 against England across 51 matches
Against England, Jayawardene scored 2,854 runs from 51 matches at an average of 52.85. That is his highest average against any of the major Test-playing nations and comfortably the largest single-opponent run tally in our dataset.
Sinhalese Sports Club average of 95.05 from 17 matches
At the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo, Jayawardene scored 1,901 runs in 17 matches at an average of 95.05. No venue in our dataset comes close to that return, underlining how dominant he was at his home ground over the course of his career.
78 IPL appearances across three franchises
Jayawardene played 78 IPL matches for Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals and Kochi Tuskers Kerala, scoring 1,808 runs at a strike rate of 123.5. That T20 franchise record sits alongside stints with Somerset, Sussex and sides in the Caribbean Premier League and Bangladesh Premier League.
What’s next
Upcoming matches
- Indian Premier League · M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru18 Apr15:30 IST
- Indian Premier League · Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, New Chandigarh19 Apr19:30 IST
- Indian Premier League · Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad21 Apr19:30 IST
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
DPMD Jayawardene's profile
Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.