Jayawardene feels fifty-over World Cup victory trumps all ? Cricket News Update
While hoping to come up trumps in the upcoming series against Australia, Mahela Jayawardene, still reckons winning the fifty-over World Cup as his ultimate ambition before retiring.
The Lankans have an abysmal record Down Under, where they have failed to win a Test match since 1988. They last toured Australia for a Test-match series in 2007, and lost both clashes by comprehensive margins.
Having attained reasonable success during the Commonwealth Bank tri-series in Australia, the team will be aiming to achieve a maiden Test win in the forthcoming three-match series, which begins from December 14.
Jayawardene?s second stint as captain, which began during that series, has been promising to say the least, where his authoritative approach has allowed the team to recover well from the losses of key personnel in Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas.
However, there remain certain ambitions which have eluded the side and Jayawardene on a personal level. In his first spell as the skipper of the side, he led the team to Test wins against England and New Zealand but failed to guide them to World Cup glory in 2007, where they were beaten by eventual champions Australia.
In his current captaincy period, the team faced a major heartache after they lost the World T20 final on their own backyard in September this year. In total, he has been involved in 4 major global finals over the past five years (fifty-over and T20), and has been on the losing side on all four occasions.
While accepting the burning desire to get his hands on the global trophy, Jayawardene is further aiming to win a Test against Australia in Australia.
"Ask any international cricketer, winning a 50-over World Cup will be one of their priorities. That would always be my disappointment if I don't win a World Cup before I retire. Definitely winning a Test in Australia would be brilliant. We won a Test match in West Indies we've done that in South Africa, in New Zealand and in England. We haven't won a Test in Australia and India so we must try and get those two opportunities before I hang up."
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