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The Surfer

The legend that is Vaas

Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
Chaminda Vaas at his retirement press conference, Colombo, July 19, 2009

AFP

There were many before Chaminda Vaas who excelled for Sri Lanka with the new ball. At what point does Vaas, who literally helped criss-cross two eras of Sri Lankan cricket – from underrated minnows to uncompromising world beaters — stand among the best fast bowlers Sri Lanka has produced? Revata S Silva finds out in the Island.
An unassuming and silent servant of the game, even after all his hard-earned achievements — over 350 Test and 400 ODI wickets, an impressive tally of 26 wickets in a 3-Test series against Brian Lara’s Windies in dusty local pitches that were made to suit Murali’s spin, his eight-for in an ODI and the much-hyped ‘first-3-ball hat-trick’ against Bangladesh in the 2003 World Cup —both fantastic world records — never made Vaas a toffee-nosed chap.