Mahela Jayawardene posted his 50th Test half-century in his final innings in the Test format against Pakistan at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Saturday. Mahela reached the milestone when he swept Saeed Ajmal for a boundary in the 128th delivery he faced. Jayawardene also became the third player to complete 1000 runs in this calender year, the other two being fellow countrymen Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews.
Jayawardene is now tied with Sangakkara with fifty half-centuries each at the seventh position in the list of players with most half-centuries in Tests and eighth in the list of highest 50-plus scores. Jayawardene is also featured in the list of highest number of centuries with 34 tons. The legendary batsman will now target one last three-digit score in order to bow out of the longest format of the game on a high.
Following are the players with most number of 50-plus scores in Tests:
Player
Team
Matches
100s
50s
50-plus scores
Sachin Tendulkar
India
200
51
68
119
Jacques Kallis
South Africa
166
45
58
103
Ricky Ponting
Australia
168
41
62
103
Rahul Dravid
India
164
36
63
99
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
West Indies
156
29
63
92
Allan Border
Australia
156
27
63
90
Kumar Sangakkara
Sri Lanka
128
37
51
88
Mahela Jayawardene
Sri Lanka
149
34
50
84
(Amit Banerjee, a reporter at CricketCountry, takes keen interest in photography, traveling, technology, automobiles, food and, of course, cricket. He can be followed on Twitter via his handle @akb287)
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