Jayawardene headed Sri Lanka to Pakistan for a Test arrangement in March–april 2009. The arrangement was directed after the Indian group withdrew from playing in Pakistan, after the November 2008 Mumbai assaults. The principal Test finished in a draw. Despite the fact that he scored a twofold century in the first Test, Jayawardene was to leave from captaincy after the second Test in the arrangement. Sri Lanka was in a decent position in the Test with Thilan Samaraweera hitting his second progressive twofold hundred of the arrangement and Tillakaratne Dilshan scoring a century. On their path to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day's play, the transport that conveyed the Sri Lankan players was shot at by 12 conceal shooters. Jayawardene, alongside six other Sri Lankan cricketers supported wounds. Six policemen that watched the transport and two regular folks were executed in the assault. He surrendered from bad habit captaincy after the group's World Cup rout. He was designated as skipper again after Tillakaratne Dilshan's dubious captaincy. He was the chief of Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League. He now plays for the Delhi Daredevils as chief. He won the Spirit of Cricket Award 2013. This was the second occurrence of him winning this recompense.
On 25th Feb, 2014 in an Asia Cup installation against Pakistan, Mahela Jayawardene got to be just the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to show up in 600 global matches.