Madugalle represented Sri Lanka in 21 test matches and 63 One Day Internationals and also captained Sri Lankan cricket team in two test matches and 13 ODIs.

Pietersen scored 50 in England's opening game in Sri Lanka against the Sri Lankan Cricket XI, but it took until the fourth ODI for Pietersen to find form, scoring 63 not out as England won their first series in Sri Lanka.

However, after taking eight wickets for 63 runs in a match in the Sri Lankan Cricket Premier League, his bowling figures were mentioned in the Notes by the Editor in the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack 2004 — not particularly because of the achievement, but because of the uncanny number of initials, which prompted the rhetorical question: " Is this an elaborate joke, along the lines of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?".

He died in June 1896, aged 63, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son from his first marriage, John.

** Winners ( 32 ): 1885 – 86, 1886 – 87, 1887 – 88, 1890 – 91, 1891 – 92, 1896 – 97, 1897 – 98, 1902 – 03, 1903 – 04, 1908 – 09, 1910 – 11, 1912 – 13, 1913 – 14, 1914 – 15, 1917 – 18, 1918 – 19, 1921 – 22, 1922 – 23, 1924 – 25, 1930 – 31, 1934 – 35, 1937 – 38, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71, 1975 – 76, 1979 – 80, 1983 – 84, 1987 – 88, 1995 – 96

* First Division champions ( 29 ): 1896 – 97, 1906 – 07, 1921 – 22, 1931 – 32, 1932 – 33, 1933 – 34, 1934 – 35 1947 – 48, 1948 – 49, 1952 – 53, 1953 – 54, 1954 – 55, 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59, 1959 – 60, 1962 – 63, 1963 – 64, 1964 – 65, 1965 – 66, 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1973 – 74, 1974 – 75, 1975 – 76, 1976 – 77, 1983 – 84, 1999 – 00, 2000 – 01, 2001 – 02

See the Journal of the Pali Text Society, 1882, p. 126 ; 1886, pp. 62, 67, 72 ; 1890, p. 63 ; 1896, p. 43 ; Mahavamsa, ch.