Deshabandu
Marvan Atapattu
Marvan Atapattu giving slip catching practice.
Personal information
Full name
Marvan Samson Atapattu
Born (1970-11-22) 22 November 1970
Kalutara, Ceylon
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg spin
RoleOpening batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 46)23 November 1990 v India
Last Test16 November 2007 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 59)1 December 1990 v India
Last ODI17 February 2007 v India
ODI shirt no.46
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990/91–2006/07Sinhalese Sports Club
2007–2008Delhi Giants
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
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
10 wickets in match 0 – 0 0
Best bowling 1/9 – 3/19 1/12
Catches/stumpings 58/– 70/– 150/– 91/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 September 2008

Deshabandu Marvan Samson Atapattu (born 22 November 1970) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who played for 17 years for Sri Lanka.[1] Considered one of the most technically sound batsman in his era, Atapattu has scored six double centuries in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, irrespective of five ducks in his first six innings. Atapattu also captained the Sri Lankan team which won the 2004 Asia Cup.

He has previously coached the Canada and Singapore national cricket teams.[2] From April 2014 to September 2015, he was the head coach of Sri Lankan Cricket Team.[3][4]

School days

Marvan Atapattu started his cricket career as a teenager at Mahinda College, Galle, where Major G. W. S. de Silva was his first cricket coach.[5] Then he moved to Ananda College, Colombo, where he was subsequently coached by P. W. Perera.[5]

International career

Making his Test debut in November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, Atapattu's first six innings yielded five ducks and a 1,[6] and he was the first Sri Lankan batsman to be dismissed for a pair on debut.[7] After this difficult start in his first three matches, he did not 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 four pairs (two ducks in a single Test), 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 in 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 scored a century in the first innings of the Second Test during his team's tour of Australia in 2004 in Cairns, Queensland. His third century in five innings, he made 133.[8] A "determin[ed]" Atapattu, ESPNcricinfo wrote, "pull[ed] authoritatively ... tuck[ed] in neatly behind the ball."[9] He finished the two-match series scoring 156 runs at an average of 39.00 and was the top-scorer for his side.[10]

Atapattu was a skilful fielder with an accurate throw. A report prepared by ESPNcricinfo 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.[11] He was controversially[12] 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.[13] 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.[14] He has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations.

International centuries

Marvan Atapattu's test batting record

Atapattu scored his first test century in 1997, seven year after his debut, against India, and in that cricket match he made 108 runs as the match was played at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali.[15]

His highest Test score of 249 came against Zimbabwe in 2004 at Bulawayo.[15] His score of 127 in 2005 against New Zealand was his last Test century.[15] As of August 2015, Atapattu is sixth in the list of most double hundreds scored in Test matches.[16]

Atapattu scored his first ODI century in 1997 when he scored 118 in 2-run victory against India at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.[17] At Lord's in 1998, Atapattu scored 132 not out against England, his highest score in this format of the game.[17] He also scored two centuries in the 2003 Cricket World Cup: against Zimbabwe he scored 103 not out and against South Africa, only the 19th tied ODI in cricket history, he made 124. He was selected as man of the match on both occasions.[18] His innings of 111 against Pakistan in 2004 was his last ODI century.[17]

Test centuries scored by Marvan Atapattu
No. Score Opponent Venue Date Ref
1 108  India Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Chandigarh, India 19 November 1997 [19]
2 223  Zimbabwe Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka 7 January 1998 [20]
3 216 not out  Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 18 November 1999 [21]
4 207 not out  Pakistan Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka 28 June 2000 [22]
5 120  South Africa Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka 30 July 2000 [23]
6 201 not out  England Galle International Stadium, Galle, Sri Lanka 22 February 2001 [24]
7 108  India Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 29 August 2001 [25]
8 201  Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 6 September 2001 [26]
9 100 not out  Zimbabwe Galle International Stadium, Galle, Sri Lanka 12 January 2002 [27]
10 185  England Lord's, London, England 16 May 2002 [28]
11 118  West Indies Beausejour Cricket Ground, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia 20 June 2003 [29]
12 118  Australia Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 24 March 2004 [30]
13 170  Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe 6 May 2004 [31]
14 249  Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 14 May 2004 [32]
15 113  Australia Cazalys Stadium, Cairns, Australia 9 July 2004 [33]
16 127  New Zealand McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand 4 April 2005 [34]
ODI centuries scored by Marvan Atapattu
No. Score Opponent Venue Date Ref
1 118  India R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka 17 August 1997 [35]
2 132 not out  England Lord's, London, England 20 August 1998 [36]
3 119 not out  Pakistan National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan 13 February 2000 [37]
4 100  Pakistan Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh 7 July 2000 [38]
5 102 not out  India Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 27 October 2000 [39]
6 101  Netherlands R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka 16 September 2002 [40]
7 123 not out  South Africa Willowmoore Park, Benoni, South Africa 1 December 2002 [41]
8 101  Australia Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia 9 January 2003 [42]
9 124  South Africa Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa 3 March 2003 [43]
10 103 not out  Zimbabwe Buffalo Park, East London, South Africa 15 March 2003 [44]
11 111  Pakistan Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan 14 October 2004 [45]

Coaching career

In 2009, Atapattu had a coaching stint with the Fingara Cricket Academy, a coaching facility in Sri Lanka. He had a short stint as Canada's batting coach in early 2009,[46] subsequently helping them qualify for the 2011 World Cup. In 2010, he was named as head coach of the Singaporean cricket team for a one-year period, which was his first full-time assignment of a coach of a national side. His first task was World Cricket League Division 5 in Nepal where the team finished third in the group stage and remained in division 5 for 2012 World League.

In April 2011, after the World Cup, Atapattu was named as the batting coach of Sri Lankan national team and joined interim coach Stuart Law, Champaka Ramanayake and Ruwan Kalpage for the tour of England. Meanwhile, he was considered for the head coach job of the team, which eventually went to Paul Farbrace, in 2013. Atapattu was promoted to the post of an assistant coach. Following Farbrace's early unexpected exit in 2014, he was appointed as interim head coach of the team.[3] During this period, Sri Lanka won its first Test series in England in 16 years, with a 1–0 win in its 2014 tour.[4] He officially took over as head coach in September 2014, and was the team's first local coach in 15 years. A 5–2 ODI series win during England's 2014 tour of Sri Lanka was the only series win for Sri Lanka after he formally took over. After consecutive Test series defeats against India and Pakistan, he resigned in September 2015.[4]

Personal life

Atapattu is married to Neluni Atapattu, a Sri Lankan Chartered Accountant by profession. Marvan and Neluni have two daughters.

See also

References

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  4. 1 2 3 "Marvan Atapattu resigns as Sri Lanka coach". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 Obeysekere, Sriyan (27 April 2003). "Marvan's bag of new one-day strategies, a marvel !". Sunday Observer. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
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  8. ↑ Ryan, Christian (11 July 2004). "Atapattu leads Sri Lankan riposte". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  9. ↑ Ryan, Christian (10 July 2004). "Atapattu and Sangakkara lead the chase to 517". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Records / Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 2004 / Most Runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
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  14. ↑ "Most double hundreds in a career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  15. 1 2 3 "Test batting records of Marvan Atapattu". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  16. ↑ "Most double hundreds". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  17. 1 2 3 "ODI Batting records of Marvan Atapattu". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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  39. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs India 6th Match 2000/01 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  40. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs Netherlands 5th Match 2002/03 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  41. ↑ "Full Scorecard of South Africa vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI 2002/03 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  42. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs Australia 6th Match 2002/03 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  43. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs South Africa 40th Match 2002/03 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  44. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe 8th Super 2002/03 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  45. ↑ "Full Scorecard of Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 6th Match 2004/05 - Score Report". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
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