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| Prasanna Jayawardene | ||||
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hewasandatchige Asiri Prasanna Wishvanath Jayawardene | |||
| Born | 9 October 1979 | |||
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Sri Lanka | |||
| Test debut (cap 83) | 28 June 2000: v Pakistan | |||
| Last Test | 8 August 2008: v India | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Tests | ODI | FC | LA | |
| Matches | 21 | 6 | 149 | 99 |
| Runs scored | 616 | 27 | 5,388 | 1,589 |
| Batting average | 26.78 | 5.40 | 26.41 | 21.76 |
| 100s/50s | 1/2 | 0/0 | 6/25 | 0/7 |
| Top score | 120* | 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 | 41/15 | 4/1 | 358/69 | 104/42 |
| Source: CricketArchive, 20 September 2008 | ||||
Hewasandatchige Asiri Prasanna Wishvanath Jayawardene (born 9 October 1979 in Colombo, 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 actually 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 9 catches.
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