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. The Sri Lankan cricket team is a national Cricket team representing Sri Lanka. Leg spin is a style of Spin bowling in Cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a Wrist spin action causing the ball to spin anti-clockwise at the point Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations Note Most of the information here pertains to men's cricket ODI matches are also played in Women's cricket. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 02	37. 57
100s/50s	16/17	11/59
Top score	249	132*
Balls bowled	48	51
Wickets	1	-
Bowling average	24. A delivery or ball in Cricket is a single action of Bowling a Cricket ball towards the Batsman. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket Bowling average is a Statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the Sport of Cricket. 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. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kalutara is a resort town located approximately 40km south of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries The captain of a Cricket team is a player who during the course of a match has several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player He has joined the Indian Cricket League, and is currently the captain of the Delhi Jets. The Indian Cricket League (ICL is a private Cricket league that runs parallel to the Indian Premier League (IPL managed by BCCI. Delhi Giants ( formerly Delhi Jets until the 2008 Edelweiss 20's Challenge is one of the nine teams competing in the Indian Cricket League (ICL

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. Mike Powell cricketerjpg|thumb|200px| Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell]] A batsman in the sport of Cricket is depending on context Any An inswinger is a type of delivery in the Sport of Cricket. It is bowled by swing bowlers. For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings 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. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during In the sport of Cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's getting out for a score of zero Michael Andrew Atherton, OBE (born March 23, 1968, in Failsworth Lancashire, England) is a broadcaster journalist and retired Graham Alan Gooch, OBE (born July 23 1953) is a former Cricketer who captained Essex and England. Sir Leonard Hutton (born June 23, 1916 in Fulneck near Pudsey, Yorkshire, died September 6, 1990 in Saeed Anwar ( Urdu: سعید انور born September 6 1968) in Karachi, Pakistan, is a former Pakistani opening Wasim Akram ( Urdu: وسیم اکرم) (born June 3, 1966 in Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani Cricketer 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. In the Sport of Cricket, a Batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in the Innings. The Indian cricket team is an international Cricket team representing India. 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. Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations

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. Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond (born 19 June 1903 in Dover, Kent, died 1 July 1965 in Kloof KwaZulu-Natal Brian Charles Lara (born 2 May 1969 ( nicknamed, "The Prince of Port-of-Spain" "The Prince of Trinidad" or simply "The Prince" is a Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001 often referred to as The Don, was an Australian Cricketer widely

Atapattu is a skilful fielder with an accurate throw. Fielding in the Sport of Cricket is what fielders do to collect the ball when it is struck by the Batsman, in such a way as to either 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. Cricinfo is the largest Cricket -related website and one of the largest websites in the world with more than 20 million users The 1999 Cricket World Cup was hosted primarily by England, but Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands also hosted some games ^[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. The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was a Men 's Cricket Tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007 using the sport's Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island 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. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. 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]. The Muppets are a group of Puppet characters created by Jim Henson. After Sri Lanka lost the series 2-0, Atapattu announced his international retirement after the second Test at Hobart. Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ^[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.

Player Statistics

Career Performance

Marvan Atapattu's career performance graph.

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

One Day International Centuries

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• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

See also

• Ananda College

References

External links

• Player Profile: Marvan Atapattu from Cricinfo