IPL History: All-time best retired XI

#5 Mahela Jayawardene

M Jayawardene (Picture courtesy: iplt20.com)

IPL career stats - Matches - 80, Highest Score - 110*, Fours - 200

As four overseas players are allowed in an IPL XI similarly in this retired XI we will have four foreign players. Mahela Jayawardene takes the second of the 4 spots of this retired XI. Jayawardene too played for 3 franchises in IPL career namely Kings XI Punjab, Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Delhi.

Jayawardene, who is the current coach of Mumbai Indians was a great batsman in his prime. In his IPL career, he played 80 matches and aggregated 1,802 runs at an average of 28.60. Apart from being a good middle order batsman, Jayawardene was also a phenomenal fielder.

His best IPL season was the 2010 one where he scored 439 runs and even recorded his only IPL ton. Jayawardene batted with a strike rate of 147.31 in that season.