Mahela Jayawardene Cricket Stats & Career Records

Category: Batter International team: Sri Lanka Career: 1997–2015

Mahela Jayawardene is a batter associated with Sri Lanka, with an international career span of 1997–2015. Across the normalized career records available here, Mahela Jayawardene has 25,957 runs and 14 wickets across Test, ODI and/or T20I formats where records are available.

Mahela Jayawardene Career Stats

Career figures are cross-checked against the independent scorecard-derived layer. Exact matches are verified automatically; small source under-counts are corrected only when the scorecard layer is complete and identity-safe.

FormatCareerMatchesInningsRunsHSBat Avg50s100sWicketsBBIBowl Avg
✓ verified 1997–2014 149 252 11,814 374 49.85 50 34 6 2/32 51.67
✓ verified 1998–2015 448 418 12,650 144 33.38 77 19 8 2/56 70.38
✓ verified 2006–2014 55 55 1,493 100 31.77 9 1 0

Career rows are automatically cross-checked against the independent detailed-scorecard layer. Canonical team aliases are merged, representative-XI internationals are included for the same verified person, and conflicts are kept out of the verified state.

Detailed Data Coverage

The career total and the independent detailed-scorecard layer are compared format by format. A format is labelled Verified only when the corrected career total and detailed match total agree and the available runs/wickets reconcile.

FormatCareer matchesDetailed matchesCoverageCross-source checkStatus
TEST149149100.0%VerifiedVerified
ODI448448100.0%VerifiedVerified
T20I5555100.0%VerifiedVerified
Data integrity: Career summary validated · Detailed scorecard coverage 100.0% of career matches currently represented.

Mahela Jayawardene Dismissals & Head-to-Head

Two evidence levels are kept separate: historical scorecards for career dismissal relationships, and Cricsheet for delivery-level international matchups where ball-by-ball data exists.

Level 1Historical scorecards

Who dismissed whom

663career batting dismissals in scorecards
525dismissals with bowler identified
5 / 14career wickets linked to a named batter

How these totals relate: 525 of 663 batting dismissals name the bowler; 138 do not. The breakdown below totals the named-bowler dismissals only. On the bowling side, 5 of 14 verified career wickets have a usable named-batter dismissal link in this scorecard source.

Source check: summary totals reconcile with the full underlying scorecard breakdown.

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Mahela Jayawardene as batter

Showing the top 20 bowlers. Across all 221 named bowlers, the full breakdown sums to 525 dismissals.

BowlerTimes outHow
Saeed Ajmal16caught, bowled, stumping, lbw
James Anderson10caught, lbw
Zaheer Khan9lbw, caught, bowled
Brett Lee8caught, bowled
Harbhajan Singh8lbw, caught
Ishant Sharma8caught, lbw
Umar Gul8lbw, caught
Andrew Flintoff7bowled, caught
Daniel Vettori7lbw, caught, bowled
Morne Morkel7caught, bowled
Pragyan Ojha7caught, lbw
Shahid Afridi7bowled, caught
Brad Hogg6bowled, stumping, lbw, caught
Jacob Oram6caught
Junaid Khan6caught, lbw, bowled
Xavier Doherty6stumping, caught, lbw, bowled
Abdul Razzaq5caught, bowled
Anil Kumble5caught, lbw
Dale Steyn5caught, lbw
Danish Kaneria5caught, bowled

Mahela Jayawardene as bowler

Showing the top 5 batters. Across all 5 named batters, the full breakdown sums to 5 wickets.

BatterWicketsHow
Aasif Karim1lbw
Adam Gilchrist1caught
Faisal Iqbal1lbw
Ravi Shah1caught
Ross Taylor1caught
Level 2Cricsheet ball by ball

Head-to-head matchups

0Cricsheet international matches with matchup data
0batting dismissals in those matches
0bowler-credit wickets in those matches

What this means: this is the complete delivery-level index for the Cricsheet international matches currently available for this player. It is still a Cricsheet-coverage subset of the player's full career where older ball-by-ball data does not exist.

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No delivery-level matchup rows were found in the available Cricsheet international matches for this player.

Strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Economy = runs conceded per six-ball over.

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