MARVAN ATAPATTU

'Marvan Samson Atapattu' (born 22 November 1970 in Kalutara) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and was captain until a back injury forced him to miss the series against England in May 2006, where Mahela Jayawardene took over as Test and ODI captain.

Contents

Style and International Career

Player Statistics

Career Performance

Test Centuries

One Day International Centuries

See also

External links

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, 7 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. Once settled, however, he is difficult to get out and has scored six double centuries, including a highest score of 249. Only three batsmen have made more Test double centuries: Wally Hammond with seven, Brian Lara with eight and Don Bradman with twelve. His game has improved steadily and his Test average is 38.90 and his one-day international average is 37.76 (both as of 11th August 2006). He is a skillful 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]

Player Statistics

Career Performance

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

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

See also

★ Ananda College

External links

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