Prasanna Jayawardene

Prasanna Jayawardene

Personal information
Full name	Hewasandatchige Asiri Prasanna Wishvanath Jayawardene
Born	9 October 1979 (age 31) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting style	Right-handed
Role	Wicket-keeper
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 83)	28 June 2003 v Pakistan
Last Test	5 December 2010 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 114)	4 April 2003 v Pakistan
Last ODI	22 May 2007 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	3
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1999 – present	Sebastianites C&AC
1998 – 2005	Nondescripts
2001 – 2003	Colombo
2000 – 2001	Sinhalese
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	36	6	183	121
Runs scored	1,172	27	6,771	1,950
Batting average	30.05	5.40	27.30	20.96
100s/50s	3/3	0/0	9/30	0/7
Top score	154*	20	166*	62
Balls bowled	–	–	18	–
Wickets	–	–	0	–
Bowling average	–	–	–	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	0	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	0	–
Best bowling	–	–	0/9	–
Catches/stumpings	67/25	4/1	419/84	125/54
Source: CricketArchive, 7 February 2011

Hewasandatchige Asiri Prasanna Wishvanath Jayawardene (born 9 October, 1979, commonly known as Prasanna Jayawardene) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.
Having toured England in 1998 as a 19-year-old, Jayawardene was touted for a long career as a Sri Lankan cricketer, but soon found himself out of play thanks to the emerging talent of Kumar Sangakkara in 2000. His career was again thwarted by the good form of Romesh Kaluwitharana, but since this he has managed to make a few appearances since for the Sri Lankan team. With the Sri Lankan selectors having concerns about Sangakkara's playing ability, Jayawardene was once again called into action against Zimbabwe in April 2004. Since 2004 Jayawardene has played Twenty20 cricket.

Revived Test Career

Due to Kumar Sangakkara's status as a true wicketkeeper-batsman all-rounder, the Sri Lankan selectors felt that they could afford to play a specialist keeper in Test matches. As a result of this, both Sangakkara and Jayawardene have played Test cricket in the same team of late, Sangakkara as a specialist batsman and Jayawardene as the specialist keeper down the order.
Jayawardene donned the gloves for Sri Lanka thanks to an injury to Sangakkara in Sri Lanka's 1st Test against Australia on 8 November 2007. In the Test series against England in December, Jayawardene flourished with two vital fifties and nine catches. On the 27th May 2011 Jayawardene scored a patient yet fluent 112 at the SWALEC stadium in Cardiff

Player Statistics

Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Prasanna Jayawardene.

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Test Centuries of Prasanna Jayawardene
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	120*	10	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2007
[2]	154*	28	India	Ahmedabad, India	Sardar Patel Stadium	2009
[3]	112	36	England	Cardiff, Wales	SWALEC Stadium	2011