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Sri Lanka's Marvan Atapattu may have started his international career in disastrous fashion, recording five ducks in his first six Test innings, but he is now riding high and is widely acknowledged to be Sri Lanka's most technically accomplished

Man-of-the-match Muttiah Muralitharan, playing in his 66th Test, who donated his winning cheque to Ashraful after the youngster's astonishing 114, became the fastest bowler to reach 350 Test wickets when he caught and bowled last man Mohammad Sharif

Bangladesh may have lost by an innings for the second time in a fortnight, but they left Sri Lanka on a high after a scintillating hundred from a teenage prodigy, who booked himself a place in the record books as the youngest ever player to score a

For most teenagers a Test century on debut remains a distant dream, but for Mohammad Ashraful it was a dream come true

There are old school adherents who believe that education is best achieved with sharp cane and plenty of punishment, but one fears that the severe beating being handed out to Bangladesh in this Asian Test Championship match could seriously undermine

It was cricket at its one-sided worst