Marvan Atapattu

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Marvan Atapattu
Personal information
Full name Marvan Samson Atapattu
Born 22 November 1970 (1970-11-22) (age 41)
Kalutara, Ceylon
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm leg spin
Role Opening batsman
International information
National side Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 46) 23 November 1990 v India
Last Test 16 November 2007 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 59) 1 December 1990 v India
Last ODI 17 February 2007 v India
Domestic team information
Years Team
1990/91–2006/07 Sinhalese Sports Club
2007/08–present Delhi Giants
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 90 268 228 329
Runs scored 5,502 8,529 14,591 10,802
Batting average 39.02 37.57 48.79 39.42
100s/50s 16/17 11/59 47/53 18/71
Top score 249 132* 253* 132*
Balls bowled 48 51 1,302 81
Wickets 1 0 19 1
Bowling average 24.00 – 36.42 64.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/9 0/4 3/19 1/12
Catches/stumpings 58/– 70/– 150/– 91/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 September 2008

Marvan Samson Atapattu (born 22 November 1970 in Kalutara) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former Sri Lankan captain.[1] Towards the end of his career he joined the Indian Cricket League and captained the Delhi Giants. He is the current coach of Singapore national cricket team.[2]

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[edit] Style and international career

Marvan Atapattu is one of the most technically correct batsmen that Sri Lanka has ever produced. 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.[citation needed] After this difficult 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. He has 22 Test-match career ducks and 4 pairs (two ducks in a single match), both records for a top-order batsman. He made his one-Day International debut against India at Nagpur.He was appointed as captain of the one-day team on April 2003. He registered his highest Test score of 249 against Zimbabwe in 2004, sharing a 438-run partnership with Kumar Sangakkara for the second wicket.

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.[3] He was controversially[citation needed] 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.

After Sri Lanka lost the series 2-0, Atapattu announced his international retirement after the second Test at Hobart.[4] 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 scored six double centuries and sixteen centuries in his Test cricket career.[5] He has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations.

[edit] Player Statistics

[edit] Career Performance

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] Personal life

Marvan Atapattu had his education at Mahinda College, Galle and Ananda College, Colombo. He is married to Neluni Atapattu, an accountant by profession. Marvan and Neluni have two daughters.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Marvan Atapattu". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/48124.html. Retrieved July 04,2010. 
  2. ^ "Atapattu to coach Singapore for 2010". http://www.cricinfo.com/other/content/story/445412.html. Retrieved July 04,2010. 
  3. ^ Basevi, Trevor (2005-11-08). "Statistics - Run outs in ODIs". Cricinfo. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/224487.html. Retrieved 2007-02-05. 
  4. ^ Atapattu Announces International Retirement, Cricket World, Retrieved on 20 November 2007
  5. ^ "Most double hundreds in a career". Cricinfo. http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/230344.html. Retrieved July 04,2010. 

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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 cricket captain
2003–2006
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