Mumbai Indians (MI) Global Head of Cricket Mahela Jayawardene gave the example of former captain Sachin Tendulkar in fan’s reaction over Hardik Pandya replacing Rohit Sharma as captain for IPL 2024. Tendulkar led MI from the inaugural 2008 season but he played his final season under Ricky Ponting and Rohit Sharma in 2013 as well. […]

Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene is hoping for an interesting Test series between India and Australia where he has backed the visitors to win the Border Gavaskar Trophy, which begins on February 9 in Nagpur as well. However, since 2015, Australia have not been able to win over India in a Test series. For […]

Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene expects the national team to lift the T20 World Cup this year after their Asia Cup victory. Jayawardene added that Sri Lanka’s fearless approach should help them go a long way in the mega event. After an eight-wicket loss to Afghanistan in the first match of the 2022 Asia […]

Sri Lanka cricket legend Mahela Jayawardene has lavished praise on India’s newly appointed skipper Jasprit Bumrah, as Bumrah was named as India’s captain for the rescheduled fifth Test against England in Edgbaston. However, on, Thursday BCCI announced Jasprit Bumrah would lead the Indian team in the rescheduled fifth Test against England at Edgbaston beginning later […]

Former Sri Lanka skipper, Mahela Jayawardene has described Wasim Akram, the renowned Pakistani fast bowler, as the toughest fast bowler he ever faced in his career. Akram has a total of 916 international career wickets combined in the Test and ODI formats. He was one of the senior cricketers of his national side when Jayawardene […]

Former Sri Lankan skipper, Mahela Jayawardene has expressed that violence is not the solution to the change that is demanded in his country and he has made an appeal for peace to take over. He is currently part of the IPL 2022 bio-bubble as the head coach of the Mumbai Indians (MI) as the head […]

Five-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians are witnessing their worst outing in the ongoing season as they have lost 8 out of nine games they have played so far. One of the reasons why MI is at the bottom of the table is Rohit Sharma has not been able to score big as […]

Sri Lanka’s World Cup-winning cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga and fellow ex-skipper Sanath Jayasuriya have joined street protests demanding the president step down over the country’s economic crisis. Now the bandwagon seems to have been joined by the former skipper, Mahela Jayawardene as he raised against the Sri Lankan police opening fire in which some protestors […]

Mumbai Indians are having a rather forgettable season in IPL 2022. They have lost five matches on a trot in the Indian Premier League. With this, there is the possibility of them being eliminated. Meanwhile, Suryakumar Yadav’s form is the only positive for them and coach Mahela Jayawardene applauded the batter. Suryakumar Yadav, who missed […]

Mumbai Indians (MI) head coach Mahela Jayawardene reckons that he has no concerns regarding the batting form of skipper Rohit Sharma in the IPL 2022. Rohit has amassed 108 runs in five innings at 21.60 and a strike rate of 133.33. In the match against Punjab Kings on Wednesday, Rohit started with a four and […]