Former Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardena has been elected cricket committee Chairman at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC). He was appointed during their Annual General Meeting held at the club premises on Tuesday (16).
Mahela Jayawardena played for the SSC in 1997 as a schoolboy cricketer and was selected to represent the national team the same year. In 2006, Jayawardene was named as the best international captain in 2006 and was nominated in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year by ICC. Jayawardene was a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC T2- World Cup and was part of the team that made it to the final of 2007/2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009/2012 ICC World T-20.
He was also the coach of the Mumbai Indians cricket team which went on to win the Indian Premier League in 2019.
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