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Srilankan former captain and key batsman,  Mahela Jayawardene is now number 1 test batsman in the world,  with respect to ICC ranking, he defeat his captain Sangakara  which was on this position, The double century against India played vital role for this. Now Sangakara is 2nd, Gambhir 3rd, Shivnarine Chandarpaul on 4 th and Muhammad Yousuf is on  5th position.

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After the fourth day play, India is  further more 144 runs behind against the huge total of Srilanka’s 760/7(dec.), this is the ever big total of any team in India in world test cricket. India won the toss and elected to bat first, after the Dhoni and Dravid smashes India set the score 426, in this connection  Srilanka  creat the history and made 760/7 (dec.) in first inning, Srilanka reach this total by the glorious century of Dilshan and then magnificent double century of Mahela Jayawardene. He made  275 runs with the help of 27 four and 1 six. 

At the end of fourth day play India is playing  on 190/2, in second inning. India is behind  144 runs with eight wickets in hand. Rahul Dravid and Sehwag lost their wickets on 38 and 51 runs respectively.

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In Ahmedabad, the battle between India and Sri Lanka is now in very interesting mode, where India made over four hundred runs due to marvelous centuries of Dravid and Dhoni, in this reply Sri Lanka start the game with magnificent century of Dilshan and after him  former captain Mahela Jayawardene shows professional and responsible cricket and complete his unbeatable  sixth double century, and lift Sri Lanka in leading position.

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COLOMBO: Mahela Jayawardene has announced here on Wednesday to resign as captain of the Sri Lanka’s cricket team and said that the upcoming Test series in Pakistan would be his last series as captain.The 31-year-old batsman said he has decided to resign in the best interest of the Sri Lankan cricket.

Jayawardene said that the two-Test series in Pakistan would be his last series as captain.

Mahela Jayawardene’s decision to quit came after India completed a 4-1 rout of Sri Lanka in the recent one-day series.

The middle-order batsman, who led Sri Lanka for the first time in April 2004, did not play in Tuesday’s Twenty20 international here, which India won by three wickets.

Jayawardene however made it clear he was not quitting the team altogether.

Jayawardene guided Sri Lanka to the World Cup final in the West Indies in 2007, where they lost to Australia.

He captained Sri Lanka in 26 Tests, winning 15, losing seven with four draws.

In 94 one-day internationals under him, Sri Lanka won 54 and lost 35 while the rest ended in no-results.

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Ajantha Mendis

KARACHI: Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene Sunday refused to single out spin sensation Ajantha Mendis as the major threat for Pakistan in the one-day series.

The 23-year-old Mendis and his more illustrious partner Muttiah Muralitharan are tipped to hold the aces against the home team in the three-match series which starts here from Tuesday.

But Jayawardene said Mendis doesn’t carry extra burden of expectations.

Mendis, who made his debut in the West Indies in May last year, became the fastest bowler to get 50 wickets, achieving the total in 19 matches, breaking Indian Ajit Agarkar’s record of 23 matches.

Jayawardene said he would not like to put extra pressure on the newcomer.

Jayawardene refused to agree Sri Lanka are struggling with their overall form after losing to Bangladesh in the last league match and scrapping to a narrow two-wicket win in the final of the tri-series in Dhaka last week.

Chasing a modest 153, Sri Lanka lost their first five wickets for a mere six runs — the lowest total at the fall of five wickets in any one-day international — before Muralitharan’s 16-ball 33 saw them home.

Jayawardene admitted Pakistan are a dangerous team.

“Pakistan is always Pakistan for me. They are a very tough side whether they play regularly or not, so we will have to put up the best effort,” said Jayawardene.

The second match is here on Wednesday, while the final match is in Lahore on Saturday.

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Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will not be able to play for Derbyshire as planned because of changes to other playing commitments, the English county side said on their Web site (www.derbyshireccc.com). The batsman had been scheduled to play from late April to mid-July but the move of the Asia Cup to June and changes to India’s tour of Sri Lanka meant there was too little time to make a shortened contract worthwhile, the club said.

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