Mahela Jayawardene Quotes (14 Quotes)

Honestly I did not think in the morning that the pitch would play that bad. When we started playing, we found it difficult. The ball was doing a lot, stopping and all that.

I thought our team showed a lot of character in coming back so strongly after the setback in the second match. We had decided to keep up the run-rate and bat them out of the match.

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

This is going to be a tough tour but a great opportunity for us to learn, both as a team and also as individuals.

He moves the ball, is difficult for batsman to read and he is not slow. He is the sort of bowler that Pakistan has not had for some time and we know need to look after him.

I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.

We played bad cricket yesterday and that one hour was really disappointing.

It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

We have to take one session at a time and try and be ahead after the first six sessions which is the first two days of the test match. Especially against Pakistan, experience shows that if you give them early advantage they are going to run away with that.

Marvin and I have been a partnership for quite some time now, so our thinking is in the same direction. It is a temporary thing for me to take the team.

We want to win everything we play. So we are here for win with a high confidence.

We lost wickets in the middle of our innings and lost the momentum from then on. After starting well, we needed to score at least 250 on this pitch.

I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngsters, so hopefully we can give them some exposure. We have not played Bangladesh for quite a while and we are very much looking forward to this tour.

No problems with him right now, I can say there is 90 percent chance of him playing tomorrow morning.