Marvan Atapattu

Sachin Tendulkar nominated for ICC People’s Choice award

Just two years after winning it, senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was on Wednesday once again nominated for the ICC People's Choice award.

Mark Boucher – the latest in a long list of victims of freak injuries on a cricket field

By Venkatraman Ganesan

Mark Boucher became an unsuspecting victim of a freak injury. Boucher is certainly not the first cricketer to have experienced the trauma of a ludicrous injury. The history of the cricket has been marred with unsettling accounts of inglorious physical mishaps and incredulous accidents plaguing its protagonists.

Chetan Chauhan, Shane Warne etc in ‘The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen’!

By Aayush Puthran

Cricket and statistics will always have a relationship of unspoken love. In no other sport, stats and records have such a symbiotic relationship as they have in cricket. Amidst all the stories of team glory and national pride, there are some milestones that the player would wish he did not have it to his 'credit’. 

Hayden, Langer, Atapattu & Robin – from rags to cricketing riches

A journey down history lane will reveal that many of the legendary players established themselves and became great players only after repeated failures. We look at four such players – Robin Singh, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer and Marvan Atapattu:

And the coveted Donald Duck Award in cricket goes to…

If the great Indian mathematician Brahmagupta had lived to see the year 1878, he would have been particularly proud of Ned Gregory - a pioneer in his own right. He was the first-ever Test cricketer to boldly go where no man had gone before. Yup, you guessed it right; he was the first batsman to score a duck in Tests.

Misbah captaincy similar to Ranatunga, says Atapattu

Sri Lankan batting coach Marvan Atapattu on Sunday praised the Pakistan team as one of the best in the recent past and likened their captain Misbah-ul-Haq to his country's former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga.

Sri Lanka can save Test match: Marvan Atapattu

Sri Lanka batting coach Marvan Atapattu insisted on Thursday that his team can save the first Test, despite being punished by a rampant Pakistan batting line-up.

Sri Lankan batting coach Atapattu wary of English conditions

Sri Lanka will have to adjust quickly to the Test format as well as different wickets if they are to challenge England in their backyard, batting coach Marvan Atapattu said Tuesday.

Sri Lanka appoint Marvan Atapattu as batting coach

Sri Lanka have appointed former captain Marvan Atapattu as the team's batting coach for the England tour, which gets underway next month.