marvan atapattu Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
marvan atapattu is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Marvan Samson Atapattu
Born
November 22, 1970, Kalutara
Age
52 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 90 | 268 | 2 | - |
Inn | 156 | 259 | 1 | - |
Runs | 5502 | 8529 | 5 | - |
Avg | 38.48 | 37.57 | 5.0 | - |
SR | 44.43 | 67.72 | 62.5 | - |
HS | 249 | 132 | 5 | - |
NO | 13 | 32 | 0 | - |
100s | 16 | 11 | 0 | - |
50s | 17 | 59 | 0 | - |
4s | 685 | 734 | 0 | - |
6s | 4 | 15 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 90 | 268 | 2 | - |
Inn | 5 | 2 | - | - |
Balls | 48 | 51 | - | - |
Runs | 24 | 41 | - | - |
Wkt | 1 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 9 / 1 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 9 / 1 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 3.0 | 4.82 | - | - |
Avg | 24.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- N Ranatunga
- Sri Lanka
- Asia XI
- Delhi Giants
- ICL World XI
- Sinhalese Sports Club
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
It was by the end of 1997, seven years after his Test debut, that Atapattu finally scripted a turnaround by amassing a century against India in Mohali. This was the knock that gave him a new lease of life. By the end of the decade, Atapattu had become one of the established members of the side.
There was a feeling that Atapattu feasted on weak attacks as by the end of 1998, two of his double tons had come against Zimbabwe. However, he quickly dispelled those thoughts with a double hundred against Pakistan and England, respectively. In particular, he would have been pleased with his double century against England in Galle in 2000-01, as Sri Lanka won that Test.
In 2002, Atapattu's 185 against England at Lord's laid the foundation for the visitors to reach a big total. However, the hosts, after being bowled out cheaply in the first innings, rallied superbly to draw the game.
In 2004, Atapattu grafted his way to a well-measured century against the likes of Gillespie, Kasprowicz and Warne at Colombo (SSC), only for the home team to crumble meekly in the second innings and lose the game.
At the fag end of his Test career, Atapattu yet again proved his worth with a century at Napier against New Zealand in 2005. On the back of tons notched up by Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka were able to draw the game. Atapattu played his last Test against Australia in Hobart in 2007.
Once Atapattu was able to get through his inner demons, he also became prolific run-getter in ODIs. One of his better knocks was in the tri-series final at Lord's against England in 1998. He came into bat at the fall of Sanath Jayasuriya's wicket in the first over and remained not out on 132 to anchor Sri Lanka's chase. They eventually won the game by five wickets.
He notched up a couple of fifties in the 1999 World Cup, but wasn't at his best. However, Atapattu showed his class in the 2003 World Cup. He twinned flair with good defence to score a century against a handy South African pace attack in Durban.
He was controversially left out of the 2007 World Cup squad and after some differences with the selectors, soon retired from the game. After the 2011 World Cup, he served as the batting coach. In 2013, he was appointed as the assistant coach to Paul Farbrace. Farbrace though, soon left to England and that resulted in Atapattu taking over the mantle of coaching the side.
Atapattu also captained the side in Tests and ODIs. In 2004, under his able leadership, Sri Lanka beat South Africa at home. In ODIs, Atapattu marshalled his resources to a fine victory in the Asia Cup in 2004. During that period, Sri Lanka achieved a lot of success at home in the abridged version of the game.
By Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Marvan Atapattu overcame a torturous start to his international career (which included five ducks in his first six Test innings and six single-digit scores in his first seven ODIs) to become one of Sri Lanka's top batters, making over 14,000 runs in internationals for them over 16 years and scoring six Test double-hundreds.
An elegant, technically correct player, Atapattu was a fine exponent of the high-elbow cover-drive. On a lifeless pitch, he was 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. For three years Atapattu was Jayasuriya's understudy before being appointed to lead the one-day side in April 2003; he took over the Test role the following year.
On the surface a quiet and reserved character, his captaincy skills were not entirely obvious to the outsider, but in the dressing room he was a straight-talking, positive captain, firm and fair in his dealings with the players and aggressive in his approach to the game. Under him Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup and ODI and Test series against South Africa at home in 2004, and meted out whitewashes in home Test series against West Indies and Bangladesh the following year. The high point of his tenure was 13 wins in 14 ODIs in 2004. That year, Atapattu made what would be the last of his 11 ODI hundreds, of which nine came away from home.
Atapattu's career was marked by various run-ins with the selectors - most notoriously when he called them "a set of muppets headed by a joker" while on the 2007-08 tour of Australia, for which he was a late inclusion following government intervention to bring him into the squad. He scored two half-centuries in that series, including 80 in the second innings in Hobart, but Sri Lanka lost 2-0 and Atapattu announced his retirement from international cricket on the last day of that Hobart match.
After retiring, he worked in various coaching roles with Sri Lanka in the 2010s, and also coached Canada and Singapore.