Mahela Jayawardene is a retired Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He has been described as one of the best batsmen produced by the country. Jayawardene was the leading run-scorer for Sri Lanka in Tests, after fellow Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara surpassed him, and Mahela has scored 35 centuries. He has scored 19 centuries in his One Day International (ODI) career, and is the fourth-highest run-scorer for Sri Lanka. On 9 November 2014, he scored his 17th ODI century against India and also became only the 5th player to score 12,000 runs in One Day Internationals, after Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting & teammate Kumar Sangakkara. He is the highest scorer for the country in Twenty20 International (T20I) matches as well, and has scored one century. Jayawardene was chosen as captain of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) World One Day International team and selected as Captain of the Year at the 2006 ICC Awards. He was recognized as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2007, and was a member of the ICC World Test team the following year.

Jayawardene's debut Test match was against India in August 1997, in which the Sri Lankan team made a world record 952 runs for 6 wickets. He scored his maiden Test century in his fourth match, played in June 1998 against New Zealand. The 150 he scored against Bangladesh in September 2001 is the fastest Test century made by a Sri Lankan player. However, this innings came to an unusual end when he retired out just after reaching 150 runs. Jayawardene's best innings was made against South Africa in July 2006 when he scored 374 runs, surpassing Sanath Jayasuriya's record of 340 for the highest individual score by a Sri Lankan batsman. It is also the fourth-highest score in Test cricket, as well as part of the world's highest Test partnership—624 runs—which he established with teammate Kumar Sangakkara. Jayawardene has scored a total of 34 centuries during his career, the second highest number by a Sri Lankan player, after Kumar Sangakkara. He has scored more than 200 runs on seven of these occasions. This is the second-highest number of double centuries by a Sri Lankan player, behind Kumar Sangakkara. He is also one of only three players who have scored a triple century for Sri Lanka; the other two being Jayasuriya and Sangakkara.

Jayawardene made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe on 24 January 1998, and scored his first century a year later, against England on 23 January 1999. Although not as illustrious as his Test centuries, he has since made 19 ODI centuries for Sri Lanka. This is the fourth-highest number of centuries for Sri Lanka by a single player behind Jayasuriya's 28, Sangakkara's 21, and Dilshan's 20. On 10 June 2007, Jayawardene scored 107 runs for the Asia XI team, which he captained during the 2007 Afro-Asia Cup. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who scored an unbeaten 139 in the same match, and Jayawardene are the only players who have scored a century for Asia XI. Jayawardene became the sixth player to score a century at a Cricket World Cup Final with an unbeaten 103 against India during the final match of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. However, Sri Lanka lost the match, making Jayawardene the first centurion in a lost cause at a World Cup final.

Jayawardene made his T20I debut against England on 15 June 2006, and scored his first century against Zimbabwe on 3 May 2010. Jayawardene was the fourth player to score a century in a T20I, and the first Sri Lankan to do so.

Key

• * – Remained not out
• ‡ – Captain in that match
• † – Man of the match
• (D/L) – Result was determined by the Duckworth–Lewis method

Test cricket centuries

Test centuries scored by Jayawardene

No.	Score	Against	Pos.	Inn.	Test	Venue	H/A/N	Date	Result	Ref
1	167 †	New Zealand	3	2	2/3	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	3 June 1998	Won
2	242 †	India	3	2	2/4	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	24 February 1999	Drawn
3	167	South Africa	4	1	1/3	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	20 July 2000	Won
4	101*	South Africa	4	4	3/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	6 August 2000	Drawn
5	101	England	5	1	2/3	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	Home	7 March 2001	Lost
6	104	India	4	1	2/3	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	Home	22 August 2001	Lost
7	139	India	4	2	3/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	29 August 2001	Won
8	150	Bangladesh	4	2	2/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	6 September 2001	Won
9	107	England	4	1	1/3	Lord's Cricket Ground, London	Away	16 May 2002	Drawn
10	134	England	4	2	3/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	18 December 2003	Won
11	100*	Zimbabwe	4	2	2/2	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo	Away	14 May 2004	Won
12	237 †	South Africa	4	1	1/2	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	4 August 2004	Drawn
13	141	New Zealand	4	2	1/2	McLean Park, Napier	Away	4 April 2005	Drawn
14	119 † ‡	England	4	3	1/3	Lord's Cricket Ground, London	Away	11 May 2006	Drawn
15	374 † ‡	South Africa	4	2	1/2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	27 July 2006	Won
16	123 † ‡	South Africa	4	4	2/2	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	Home	4 August 2006	Won
17	127 ‡	Bangladesh	4	2	1/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	25 June 2007	Won
18	165 ‡	Bangladesh	4	3	3/3	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	Home	11 July 2007	Won
19	104 ‡	Australia	4	2	2/2	Bellerive Oval, Hobart	Away	16 November 2007	Lost
20	195 † ‡	England	4	2	2/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	9 December 2007	Drawn
21	213* † ‡	England	4	1	3/3	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	18 December 2007	Drawn
22	136 ‡	West Indies	4	1	1/2	Providence Stadium, Providence	Away	22 March 2008	Won
23	136 ‡	India	4	1	1/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	23 July 2008	Won
24	166 ‡	Bangladesh	4	3	1/2	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka	Away	26 December 2008	Won
25	240 ‡	Pakistan	4	1	1/2	National Stadium, Karachi	Away	21 February 2009	Drawn
26	114	New Zealand	4	1	1/2	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	18 August 2009	Won
27	275 †	India	4	2	1/3	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Away	16 November 2009	Drawn
28	174	India	4	1	2/3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	26 July 2010	Drawn
29	105	Australia	4	4	1/3	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	31 August 2011	Lost
30	180 ‡	England	4	2	1/2	Galle International Stadium, Galle	Home	26 March 2012	Won
31	105	England	4	2	2/2	P.Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	Home	3 April 2012	Lost
32	129 †	Pakistan	5	2	2/3	Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai	Away	9 January 2014	Won
33	203* †	Bangladesh	4	2	1/2	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka	Away	29 January 2014	Won
34	165	South Africa	4	1	2/2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Home	24 July 2014	Drawn

ODI Centuries

ODI centuries scored by Jayawardene

No.	Score	Against	Pos.	Inn.	S/R	Venue	H/A/N	Date	Result	Ref
1	120 †	England	5	2	108.10	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	Neutral	23 January 1999	Won
2	101 †	Pakistan	3	1	73.18	Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Neutral	27 March 1999	Won
3	128	India	4	1	104.06	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	27 October 2000	Won
4	101* †	England	4	1	87.82	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Home	25 March 2001	Won
5	116 †	New Zealand	4	1	89.92	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah	Neutral	10 April 2001	Won
6	106* †	West Indies	4	2	112.76	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	Home	15 December 2001	Won
7	126* † ‡	England	3	2	99.21	Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street	Away	24 June 2006	Won
8	100 † ‡	England	3	1	120.48	Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester	Away	28 June 2006	Won
9	115* † ‡	New Zealand	4	1	105.50	Sabina Park, Kingston	Neutral	24 April 2007	Won
10	107	Africa XI	6	1	100.94	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Neutral	10 June 2007	Won
11	123 †	Pakistan	2	2	113.88	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla	Home	3 August 2009	Won
12	108	Bangladesh	2	2	92.30	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka	Away	8 January 2010	Won
13	100	Canada	4	1	123.45	Mahinda Rajapaksha International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota	Home	20 February 2011	Won
14	103*	India	4	1	117.04	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Away	2 April 2011	Lost
15	144	England	2	1	96.0	Headingley, Leeds	Away	1 July 2011	Won
16	107	India	2	1	95.53	Sabina Park, Kingston	Neutral	2 July 2013	Won
17	118	India	4	1	95.16	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad	Away	11 November 2014	Lost
18	104	New Zealand	4	1	97.19	Hagley Oval, Christchurch	Away	11 January 2015	Lost
19	100 †	Afghanistan	5	2	83.33	University Oval, Dunedin	Neutral	22 February 2015	Won

T20I cricket centuries

T20I centuries scored by Jayawardene

No.	Score	Against	Pos.	Inn.	S/R	Venue	H/A/N	Date	Result	Ref
1	100 †	Zimbabwe	1	1	156.25	Providence Stadium, Providence	Neutral	3 May 2010	Won (D/L)