";s:4:"text";s:6511:" He also added some words of praise for his role models.Although India went on to lose that particular match by three wickets, Raina's effort stood out as a positive for the team. Atapattu wisely steered clear of a public confrontation, though his relationship with the selectors remained prickly. And again, in his second innings. It’s a story that Harsha Bhogle, India’s most loved cricket commentator, loves to tell, over and over again. An elegant player to watch, Atapattu's signature shot was his high-elbow cover-drive. Marvan Atapattu started his cricket career as a teenager at Making his Test debut in November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, Atapattu's first six He made his One-Day International debut against India at After Sri Lanka lost the series 2–0, Atapattu announced his international retirement after the second Test at In 2009, Atapattu had a coaching stint with the Fingara Cricket Academy, a coaching facility in In April 2011, after the World Cup, Atapattu was named as the batting coach of The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka in August 1997, participating in two Test matches and three One Day International (ODI) matches. Within weeks he had halted the team's slide and established himself as a strong leader. Suresh Raina posted a video clip of his ODI debut where he ran out Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu. Atapattu, M S - Test Cricket, profile, statistical overview, batting graphs, bowling graphs, performances by ground, performances by opponent, performances by year, performances by series, performances by batting position, analysis of dismissals, list of innings, partnership records, man of match awards One of the most stylish openers in world cricket, Atapattu went on to become one of Sri Lanka's most prolific run scor The team fared poorly in the ICC Champions Trophy but perked up against Pakistan in October 2004.But Atapattu's capacity for attracting the unexpected continued when, out of the blue, Ashantha de Mel, the new government-appointed chairman of selectors, launched a scathing attack on the team management on the eve of the Paktel Cup in 2004-05, accusing them of blocking his attempts to blood new players. In the wake of Paul Farbrace's sudden departure from the head coach position a year later, Atapattu was appointed the interim head coach for the away tour of England, and the home tour against South Africa, in July.Coach Marvan Atapattu chats with Milinda Siriwardana Venugopal Rao and Dilhara Lokuhettige of Sri Lanka were the other players who received their maiden ODI caps in this game.Apart from some magnificent records etched to his name, Raina also finds a place in the history books for a peculiar reason: he scored a debut Test hundred after getting a first-ball duck on his ODI debut.In 226 ODIs Raina has scored 5615 runs at an average of 35.31, with five centuries. 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. The 1999 Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup '99) was the seventh edition of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). On the surface a quiet and reserved character, his captaincy pedigree was not entirely obvious to the outsider, but within the dressing-room he was a straight-talking and positive captain, firm and fair in his dealings with the players and aggressive in his approach to the game. Atapattu's career took another bizarre twist later in the year when embroiled in the cash-in-the-bedroom affair in which a match-fixing investigation was initiated after a large sum of cash was discovered in the safe of the hotel room he had occupied during England's tour in 2003. He has been the national side's batting coach since 2011, and was promoted to the position of assistant coach in March 2013. #1 Marvan Atapattu. The ICC later cleared Atapattu of any wrongdoing and the likeliest explanation for the mystery remains a crude attempt to blacken his reputation.But by early 2004 the team was drifting downwards under Tillakaratne and the selectors were finally compelled to appoint Atapattu as the Test captain. It was hosted primarily by England, with some games being played in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands. His career was put on hold by a back injury early in 2006 which led to Mahela Jayawardene taking on the captaincy. The International Cricket Council (ICC) took to its official Twitter handle and informed its followers that Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara smashed a half-century each to help Sri Lanka seal win in the Asia Cup 2004 final on this day. All his big Test innings - he scored six double-hundreds in his career, a feat bettered only by Don Bradman (12), Wally Hammond and Brian Lara (seven each) - were been slow affairs but the most tortuous episode of his international career was its start: it took him nearly seven years to get established. On August 1 in 2004, Sri Lanka defeated India by 25 runs to lift their third title at the Asia Cup at R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.