by Rex Clementine -
The Island
Everytime Mahela Jayawardene plays at his home ground, you expect the Sri Lankan captain to score big. Mahela Jayawardene has now scored over 7500 runs in Test cricket and of those, over 2300 runs have come at the SSC. Yesterday, he scored his ninth Test hundred at the SSC and equaled the world record for the most number of hundreds at one venue.
He joins Sir Don Bradman as only the second man to have scored nine hundreds at the same venue and it’s only a matter of time before he surpasses the great man. Bradman scored nine hundreds at the MCG, where 1671 of his 6996 runs were scored and he averages a staggering 128:53 at that venue. (Bradman’s home ground was Adelaide).
Jayawardene averages 81:40 at SSC and of his nine hundreds, four have been scores of over 150 (374,242,195 and 150).
And of the nine hundreds at SSC, three have come against the Indians while two each have been scored against South Africa, England and Bangladesh.
Surprisingly, against the other five Test opponents, he has scored only one fifty (82 against Pakistan) while his top scores against other visiting teams at SSC are – 37 against Australia (2 Tests), 16 against New Zealand (1 Test), 41* against West Indies (2 Tests) and 18 against Zimbabwe (1 Test).
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