Mahela Jayawardene
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"Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene", known as "Mahela Jayawardene", is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is a specialist batsman.

Jayawardene made his Test cricket 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 South African cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2006/home series against South Africa. He has a test cricket batting average/average of over 50 and a One Day average in the 30s. He is the first 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.

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It was a very difficult day for us.

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We never take Bangladesh lightly, they are more competitive now. We have to win the series.

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He has taken 580-odd wickets in Test cricket. So every team will want to have him in the side. His presence here for the Test is of course a big encouragement for us.

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We want to win everything we play. So we are here for win with a high confidence.

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We came here without some main players, but at the end, we finished the series easily. The young players showed a lot of character.

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I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngsters, so hopefully we can give them some exposure. We have not played Bangladesh for quite a while and we are very much looking forward to this tour.

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We are confident to win all matches here but we will not take Bangladesh lightly.

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I thought our team showed a lot of character in coming back so strongly after the setback in the second match. We had decided to keep up the run-rate and bat them out of the match.

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It was a very good moment for team.

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