Mahela Jayawardena extends Somerset deal to Royal London One-Day Cup
Wednesday 13 July 2016 11:06, UK
Mahela Jayawardena is staying with Somerset for the rest of their Royal London One-Day Cup campaign.
The Sri Lanka great originally signed to play for the county in NatWest T20 Blast matches only but he has now extended that to the 50-over competition.
Somerset sit third in the South Group after four rounds of games, having won two matches and tied another with unbeaten league leaders Essex.
Jayawardena has scored more than 15,000 runs in List A cricket, averaging 33.43 with a top score of 163 not out.
He told Somerset's website: "This is really good news for me and I am very pleased to be staying with Somerset to play in the Royal London One-Day Cup this season. I am enjoying playing for the county and living here in Taunton.
"I will be doing my very best to try to make sure that Somerset reach the next stage of the competition and get to the final at Lord's."
The county's director of cricket Matt Maynard added: "Mahela is a high class performer so when he became available for the rest of our Royal London One-Day Cup campaign we signed him without any hesitation.
"Hopefully the addition of him to our batting line up will enable us to go all the way in the competition and of course it also means that Somerset fans will get more opportunities to see Mahela in action this season."
