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Marvan Atapattu

Sri Lanka
Personal information
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Leg-break (LB)
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 90 268
Runs scored 5502 8529
Batting average 39.02 37.57
100s/50s 16/17 11/59
Top score 249 132*
Balls bowled 48 51
Wickets 1 -
Bowling average 24.00 -
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling 1/9 -
Catches/stumpings 58/- 70/-

As of March 3, 2007
Source: [1]

Marvan Samson Atapattu (born 22 November 1970 in Kalutara) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and former Sri Lankan captain. He has joined the Indian Cricket League, and is currently the captain of the Delhi Jets.

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[edit] Style and International Career

Marvan is a technically correct batsman, although he can occasionally show an initial tendency to chop an inswinging delivery back onto his stumps. Making his Test debut in November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, his first six innings yielded five ducks and a 1, but supporters insist that his debut-innings duck puts him in good company with batsmen such as Michael Atherton, Graham Gooch, Len Hutton, Saeed Anwar and Wasim Akram, who all made debut-innings ducks and went on to score at least 2500 Test runs. After this horror start in his first three matches, he didn't score above 29 in his next 11 innings, before hitting his first Test century in his 10th match, against India, seven years after his debut. Partly as a result of his poor start, he has 22 Test-match career ducks and 4 pairs (two ducks in a single match), both records for a top-order batsman.

Although he is a vulnerable starter, Atapattu can show immense strength of character once he gets his eye in. On a lifeless pitch, he is a master of the percentage game, his caution a useful counterpoint to the risks taken by Sanath Jayasuriya, his opening partner almost throughout his Test career. Atapattu has scored six double-hundreds in his career, his highest score being 249. Only three batsmen have made more Test double centuries: Wally Hammond with seven, Brian Lara with eight and Don Bradman with twelve.

Atapattu is a skilful fielder with an accurate throw. A report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showed that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the second highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the seventh highest success rate.[1] He was controversially left out of the squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, and as a result, asked for his removal from the list of Sri Lanka contracted players. Atapattu was to miss the 2007-08 tour of Australia, but was added to the squad after the intervention of Sri Lankan Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge. Atapattu played solidly in the First Test, but subsequently angrily labelled the selectors: "A set of Muppets, basically, headed by a joker," at a post-stumps press conference [2]. After Sri Lanka lost the series 2-0, Atapattu announced his international retirement after the second Test at Hobart.[2] He finished with 5,502 Test runs at an average of 39.02 in 90 Tests with a One-day International average of 37.57 after hitting 8,529 runs in 268 matches.

Atapattu will play out the 2007/08 season with Sydney grade club St George.

[edit] Player Statistics

[edit] Career Performance

Marvan Atapattu's career performance graph.
Marvan Atapattu's career performance graph.

[edit] Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Marvan Atapattu.

  • In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
  • The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career
Test Centuries of Marvan Atapattu
Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year
[1] 108 10 India Mohali, India Punjab C.A. Stadium 1997
[2] 223 13 Zimbabwe Kandy, Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium 1998
[3] 216* 27 Zimbabwe Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club 1999
[4] 207* 35 Pakistan Kandy, Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium 2000
[5] 120 37 South Africa Kandy, Sri Lanka Asgiriya Stadium 2000
[6] 201* 42 England Galle, Sri Lanka Galle Stadium 2001
[7] 108 47 India Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sports Club Ground 2001
[8] 201 48 Bangladesh Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sports Club Ground 2001
[9] 100* 54 Zimbabwe Galle, Sri Lanka Galle Stadium 2002
[10] 185 56 England London, England Lord’s 2002
[11] 118 64 West Indies Gros Islet, Saint Lucia Beausejour Stadium 2003
[12] 118 71 Australia Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sports Club Ground 2004
[13] 170 72 Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2004
[14] 249 73 Zimbabwe Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club 2004
[15] 133 75 Australia Cairns, Australia Bundaberg Rum Stadium 2004
[16] 127 80 New Zealand Napier, New Zealand McLean Park 2005

[edit] One Day International Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the ODI centuries scored by Marvan Atapattu.

  • In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
  • The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career
One Day International Centuries of Marvan Atapattu
Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year
[1] 118 27 India Colombo, Sri Lanka R.Premadasa Stadium 1997
[2] 132* 50 England London, England Lord's 1998
[3] 119* 90 Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan National Stadium 2000
[4] 100 96 Pakistan Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangabandhu National Stadium 2000
[5] 102* 107 India Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Sharjah C.A. Stadium 2000
[6] 101 164 Netherlands Colombo, Sri Lanka R.Premadasa Stadium 2002
[7] 123* 170 South Africa Benoni, South Africa Willowmoore Park 2002
[8] 101 176 Australia Sydney, Australia Sydney Cricket Ground 2003
[9] 124 186 South Africa Durban, South Africa Kingsmead 2003
[10] 103* 189 Zimbabwe East London, South Africa Buffalo Park 2003
[11] 111 223 Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan Gaddafi Stadium 2004

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Basevi, Trevor (2005-11-08). Statistics - Run outs in ODIs. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
  2. ^ Atapattu Announces International Retirement, Cricket World, Retrieved on November 20, 2007

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Preceded by
Hashan Tillakaratne		 Sri Lankan Test captain
2003-2006		 Succeeded by
Mahela Jayawardene
Preceded by
Sanath Jayasuriya		 Sri Lankan ODI captain
2003-2006
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Sri Lanka squad - 1996 Cricket World Cup (Winners)
1 Ranatunga (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Chandana • 4 De Silva • 5 Dharmasena • 6 Gurusinha • 7 Kaluwitharana (wk) • 8 Jayasuriya • 9 Mahanama • 10 Muralitharan • 11 Pushpakumara • 12 Tillakaratne • 13 Vaas • 14 Wickramasinghe • Coach: Whatmore
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Sri Lanka squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup
1 Ranatunga (c) • 2 De Silva • 3 Jayasuriya • 4 Kaluwitharana (wk) • 5 Mahanama • 6 Atapattu • 7 Jayawardene • 8 Tillakaratne • 9 Vaas • 10 Chandana • 11 Upashantha • 12 Muralitharan • 13 Hathurusingha • 14 Kalpage • 15 Wickramasinghe • Coach: Dias
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Sri Lanka squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Jayasuriya (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Jayawardene • 4 Sangakkara (wk) • 5 De Silva • 6 Arnold • 7 Mubarak • 8 Tillakaratne • 9 Muralitharan • 10 Vaas • 11 Fernando • 12 Gunaratne • 13 Gunawardene • 14 Nissanka • 15 Buddhika • Coach: Whatmore
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Sri Lanka squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup
1 Jayawardene (c) • 2 Atapattu • 3 Jayasuriya • 4 Tharanga • 5 Sangakkara • 6 Dilshan • 7 Arnold • 8 Silva • 9 Maharoof • 10 Vaas • 11 Fernando • 12 Malinga • 13 Kulasekara • 14 Muralitharan • 15 Bandara • Coach: Moody
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