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Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva (born 17 October1965 in Colombo) was a Sri Lankancricketer, and is considered one of the finest batsmen ever produced by the country. He made his Test match debut in 1984 at Lord's against England. During the early part of his career de Silva was known as a dashing, if inconsistent, stroke-maker, but a successful season playing First Class cricket for English county Kent in 1995 marked a turning point in his career. He was instrumental in Sri Lanka's triumph in the 1996 Cricket World Cup where his unbeaten century and three wickets earned him the Man of the Match award in the final against Australia. His other notable achievements include scoring a century in each innings of a Test match on two separate occasions (only bettered by India's Sunil Gavaskar who performed this feat three times), and scoring over 1000 Test runs in a calendar year in 1997. De Silva had the distinction of scoring a double century in his final Test innings and picking up a wicket with his final delivery in Test cricket (against Bangladesh in 2002), and he retired - with a place in cricket's history secure - from all International Cricket after the World Cup in 2003. October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Towers of downtown Colombo Colombo (derived from Sinhalese name Kola-amba-thota which means harbour with mango trees, altered by the Portuguese to honour Christopher Columbus), population 737,396 (Colombo metropolitan area: 2,234,289) (2001), is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. ... A cricket match in progress. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Cricket World Cup 2007 logo The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations, as well as several representatives from other cricket-playing nations who qualify through a series of qualifying matches. ... Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 at Bombay, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. ...
During his early career he was given the nickname "Mad Max" for his ability to get out to rash shots.
In an otherwise well written appreciation of AravindadeSilva on his retirement chronologically documenting his accomplishments and the tremendous respect he commands in international cricketing circles as well as in life, Mennon had gone on to sully his contribution about Aravinda with his apathetic interjection as though he is an authority on greatness.
Aravinda's greatness lies not only in his cricketing prowess but in his personality and how he deals with adversity as attested by almost everyone who knows him and has played with him and the gentle wisdom he always displays is an axiom of greatness hardly displayed by the likes of others.
Aravinda was as capable of patting a full toss back to the bowler as he was of hitting a length ball for six.
AravindadeSilva followed Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards as only the third man to score a century in a World Cup final and his innings was in the same class as the memorable ones at Lord`s by those great West Indians in 1975 and 1979.
DeSilva catches Steve Waugh and Stuart Law and clean bowls Ian Healy as Australia lose six wickets for 58 runs to be reduced to 205 for seven by the 45th over.
AravindadeSilva, their vice-captain, did the star turn in an outstanding all-round contribution of wickets, catches and then a stunningly attractive century, the first in a final since 1979.
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