Mahela Jayawardena

Classy and elegant, Mahela Jayawardena is one of Sri Lanka’s all-time greats. His international career started in 1997 and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 marked his fifth appearance at the tournament.

Jayawardena has excelled on the Test, one-day international and Twenty20 arenas through his career and has more than 19 centuries from 448 ODI caps and more than 12500 one-day runs to his name.

A highlight of his World Cup career came in 2007, when as captain, he scored a match-winning century against New Zealand in the semi-final.

In 2011 he scored an unbeaten 103 from 88 balls in the World Cup final, when Sri Lanka fell to India by six wickets.

Jayawardena has an unbelievable Test record as well, making 11814 runs including 34 hundreds with an average of 49.84.