Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Arjuna Ranatunga, Asanka Gurusinha, Asitha Costa, Avishka Gunawardene, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Brian Rajadurai, Chamara Silva, Chaminda Vidanapathirana, Charith Sylvester, Dammika Ranatunga, Dhammika Prasad, Dilhara Fernando, Dimuth Karunaratne, Don Somasiri, Duleep Mendis, Gayan Wijekoon, Gehan Dassanayake, Guy de Alwis, Hemantha Wickramaratne, Ian Daniel, Jayantha Silva, Jeevan Mendis, Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Kaushal Silva, Mahela Jayawardene, Manjula Munasinghe, Marvan Atapattu, Nisal Fernando, Nishantha Ranatunga, Nuwan Zoysa, Piyal Wijetunge, Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Prasanna Jayawardene, Ranil Abeynaike, Sachithra Senanayake, Sanjeeva Ranatunga, Sanjeewa Silva, Suraj Randiv, Thilan Samaraweera, Upekha Fernando, Ushan Manohara. Excerpt: Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene (Sinhala: born 27 May 1977), known as Mahela Jayawardene, is the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is a specialist batsman. Jayawardene made his Test debut in 1997 and his One Day International (ODI) debut the following season. In 2006 he made the highest ever score by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, scoring 374 in the second Test of Sri Lanka's home series against South Africa. He has a Test average of over 50 and an ODI average in the 30s. He is the first and only player in the history of Sri Lankan cricket to score over 10,000 Test runs. Despite his relatively low ODI average, Jayawardene is considered to be one of the best batsmen produced by Sri Lanka and is generally held in high regard as a legend of the modern game along with team-mate Kumar Sangakkara. He is one of only three Sri Lankans-the others being Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara-to have scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. In 2006, Jayawardene was named by the International Cricket Council as the best international captain of the year and he was nominated in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year. He is also known for his fielding skills in the inner ring, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the most number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the fifth highest run-out/match ratio in ODI's. Statistics also reveal that c Jayawardene b Muralitharan is the most common bowler-fielder combination in the history of Test cricket. Jayawardene led Sri Lanka to Pakistan for a Test series in March-April 2009. The series was conducted after the Indian team withdrew from playing in Pakistan, following the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. The first Test ended in a draw. Even though he scored a double century in the first Test, Jayawardene was to resign from captaincy after the second Test in the series. Sri Lanka was in a