Former Sri Lanka captain, Mahela Jayawardene will lead Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a Twenty20 Triangular Tournament with Nepal and the Netherlands, which will take place at Lord’s next month.
Meanwhile, Lords will host the matches on Sunday, July 29. MCC will face the two associate nations before they fight it out in the final game of the day.
Jayawardene is in the top three of his country’s all-time leading run-scorers in all three formats of the game. Further, his name appears twice on the Honours Board in the visitors’ dressing room at Lord’s, for centuries against England in 2002 and 2006. Also, he became an Honorary Life Member of MCC in 2015.
He made almost 12,000 runs in his 149 Test matches at an average of 49.84. Furthermore, he notched up 12,650 runs in ODI runs along with 1,493 runs in T20I format. In all, he made 54 centuries for his country across the three formats.
Apart from all the teams he had played for, Jayawardene has experience in domestic T20 in England with both Somerset and Sussex.
MCC has announced that three Scotland players would be in the squad. Dylan Budge, Alasdair Evans and Mark Watt all featured in Scotland’s first-ever ODI win against England.
Previously, they played for MCC against the Aboriginal XI at Arundel Castle on June 5. Middle-order batsman Budge scored 52 and 43 not out while Watt took three key wickets in the win over England.
Meanwhile, the remainder of the MCC squad is due to be announced in the coming weeks.
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