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Mahela Jayawarena celebrates his first wedding anniversary with his wife Christina on third of November of 2006 and the Three 60(my college news paper name) were thrilled to get an interview with him. The much loved cricket captain revealed his personal life from cricket player to a loving husband.
The past student of Nalanda College in Colombo said that he was seven years old when he joined the school cricket team and due to his talent in the game he was picked for the U-19 national cricket team.
Speaking of cricket in Sri Lanka he said that the country has the best structure for junior cricket. “I know for a fact that the Australians and English like the brand of cricket that we play,” Jayawardena said adding that there are around 340 schools which train their students to play cricket so there are more opportunities for youngsters to join this game
“If you look at everybody you become a much better person and learn more" andding that his role model of the calm player is his father. He is the one who guided me through my career,” he said. He added that his wife is also a major part in his life. “I found the right partner who understands my responsibly and so far so good and I hope it will stay the same,” he said.
It has been one year since he got married and starting a family has been one of the things in their minds but he said that it is still too early since they got married to start a family.
“I manage my personal life quite well. My wife works for a web based company and when I am on tour we try to make arrangements so she can also come with me,” he said.
The charming cricketer loves his Sri Lankan food “rice and curry” because that is what he misses the most when he is on tour.
He has been working for 10 years in Seylan Bank and has not made a decision to continue this job while tackling his busy schedule. In addition to his family life, cricket and job at Seylan bank he also busy with his sponsor.
Speaking of his fans the well liked cricketer said they are the best and give them more freedom and privacy in public. “When I go out with my family the kids would just come and ask my autograph,” he said.
He said while smiling he would love to live in Pakistan if the supplies are given free to sports stars “but unfortunately here we pay for our goods,” he said. He further said that he cannot take gifts from shopkeepers all the time because they too are doing a business. “I do not want to hurt their feelings by not accepting something,” he said.

Presently Jayawardena is driving a black jeep but his dream is to own a jaguar.

He not only loves his cricket but likes to play golf, water sports, basketball and football in his spare time. “I am a big football fan. I us to get scolded at home for watching sports on TV,” he said. when we are touring we are usually stuck in a hotel room so we play different kinds of sports to keep us occupied. “I like to see how people act in different situations under pressure,” he said.

His favourite kind of music is slow sinhala songs. He is a big fan of the 1980s songs “I can be a little old fashioned but that is the music I like,” He likes Milton Malavarachchi, Clarence Wijeratne and Gunadasa Kapuge.

In his free time he loves to watch a lot of English movie. He said he does not have much time to watch dramas so on holidays he would rent a DVD to watch with his wife.

Maheshika Palipane, isuri and I went to interview him. After that we gave this story to daily Mirror and our college newspaper. Isuri only went to see him but ma and mahsehika wrote the story. We enjoyed a lot!!!!!

Maheshika, Mahella, Isuri and Me..

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