“We should not play like Australia or India or England — we should play like Sri Lanka.”

—  Mahela Jayawardene

Quoted in Charlie Austin, " Mahela Jayawardene http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/287060.html," Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2007).
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