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	Thatscricket - Specials - WC 2003 - Legends - Arjuna Ranatunga (Sri Lanka)
		Arjuna Ranatunga is widely known and respected throughout the cricketing fraternity for leading Sri Lanka to victory in the 1996 World Cup.
		Ranatunga was one of the most able captains of his time and was responsible for the popular trend of pinch-hitting in the first 15 overs.
		Ranatunga used to bowl gentle off spin occasionally and he brought himself on more to unsettle the batsmen rather than to contain the opposition.
	thatscricket.oneindia.in /specials/wc2003/legends/arjuna_ranatunga.html (332 words)

	The Hindu : Arjuna Ranatunga bids adieu
		In the presentation after the match, Ranatunga was at a loss for words as he thanked all those who had stood beside him in the hour of need during his long and distinguished career.
		Ranatunga was the only survivor of the inaugural Test played by Sri Lanka against England in Colombo 18 years ago, and he's been through it all representing his country in 93 of the 105 Tests played to date.
		Ranatunga was a cricketer the Aussies loved to hate, following his on field incidents with individual players, especially Ian Healy and Shane Warne during the 1995-96 tour when his key bowler Muttiah Muralitharan was no-balled for throwing.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/08/12/stories/0712028c.htm (473 words)

	Arjuna Ranatunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arjuna Ranatunga (born 1 December 1963) is a Sri Lankan cricketer-turned politician.
		Ranatunga's weight was also notable, and gave rise to an incident during a game played in humid conditions when he called for a runner, claiming that he had "sprained something".
		Ranatunga lost the national team captaincy in 1999 after Sri Lanka's poor showing at the World Cup in England, although he was chosen as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arjuna_Ranatunga (585 words)

	Arjuna Part 1
		This is the second part of a two-part study of Arjuna Ranatunga in 1999/2000 and does not seem to have been aired widely in the Sri Lankan media, hence its resurrection today, May 2001.
		Arjuna’s regime was a mixed bag, good and bad in patches From Michael Roberts This is the second part of a two-part study of Arjuna Ranatunga in 1999/2000 and does not seem to have been aired widely in the Sri Lankan media, hence its resurrection today, May 2001.
		Ranatunga had been publicly given more or less total control of the side for this occasion by Thilanga Sumathipala, the President of the BCCSL, and it could be said that the failures during 1999 occurred at a stage when Ranatunga’s influence in Sri Lankan cricket was at the most pernicious.
	www.ozlanka.com /sports/arjuna1.htm (1755 words)

	India - News - Arjuna Ranatunga To Be Arrested For Beating-up Schoolboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At least seven schoolboys from Asoka College, a state school that adjoins the Ranatungas' house in Maradana, were allegedly severely beaten up on Friday by a gang led by the brothers and their security men and had to be admitted to hospital with head and hand injuries.
		The boys were playing cricket, the game that shot Arjuna into limelight, and had asked for their ball back when it fell into the latter's garden.
		Soon after Friday's brawl, Arjuna left for Kenya where he is playing in a charity match to collect funds for victims of the Gujarat earthquake.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/ranatunga.html (403 words)

	Warne ban questioned - Cricket - www.theage.com.au
		Now a Colombo-based politician, Ranatunga criticised Cricket Australia over Warne's 12-month suspension, stating the 107-Test veteran deserved to be banished from the game for testing positive to a banned diuretic.
		Ranatunga, meanwhile, began the public verbal duel with Warne by stating the spinner could prove a liability during the forthcoming three-Test series.
		Ranatunga also backed Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan to eclipse Warne in the race to Courtney Walsh's Test record of 519 wickets.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/28/1077677017255.html?from=storyrhs (489 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Injured Ranatunga ruled out of test series - Thursday March 02, 2000 02:16 PM
		Posted: Thursday March 02, 2000 02:16 PM Arjuna Ranatunga left the field Wednesday after being hit on the left thumb but returned and resumed his innings.
		"Ranatunga has been ordered to rest for at least three weeks and that means he will not be able to play," said Sri Lanka cricket board spokesman Chandrishan Perera.
		Ranatunga left the field Wednesday after being hit on the left thumb by a fast delivery from Waqar Younis.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2000/03/02/ranatunga_out_ap (248 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport Tribune
		The sight of Ranatunga virtually walking across the wicket for a run might not be worth emulating by budding youngsters but the former skipper always had his eyes fixed on the red cherry and knew exactly where it was being fielded.
		Ranatunga, Aravinda de Silva and several other prominent Lanka players were dropped from the team in the early nineties as the authorities, perhaps rightly, thought that they lacked the standards of physical fitness that the modern game demanded.
		Ranatunga, as a batsman might not be as awe-inspiring as Sachin Tendulkar, as destructive as Brian Lara, as silken in his drives as Mark Waugh, as stubborn as Mark’s elder sibling Steve Waugh or as classy as fellow team-mate Aravinda de Silva.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000819/spr-trib.htm (2751 words)

	Ananda College Colombo
		Arjuna Ranatunga is one of Sri Lanka's greatest cricketers and probarbly the best ever cricket captain the island has produced.
		Sumith's wife Prema met with Arjuna Ranatunga on several occasions in 1997 when the Sri Lanka cricket team arrived in London to play some unofficial matches and participate in the annual Festival of Cricket (FOC).
		Among the cricketers produced by Ananda are Arjuna Ranatunga, Anuruddha Polonnowita, Bonnie Wijesinghe, Sarath Wijesinghe, Sonny Yatawara, Sidath Wettimuni and Marvan Atapattu.
	sumithwickramasinghe.tripod.com /id10.html (4298 words)

	Arjuna Ranatunga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ranatunga blasts ICC for Murali snub (September 9, 2004)
		Arjuna Ranatunga is a stockily-built left-handed batsman who led Sri Lanka to their greatest cricketing triumph, the 1996 World Cup.
		Despite his relative inability to scamper the quick single which is considered essential in one-day cricket, Ranatunga had an uncanny ability to keep the scoreboard ticking over using deft placement on both sides of the wicket, combined with fluent driving through the offside in particular.
	www-uk2.cricket.org /link_to_database/PLAYERS/SL/R/RANATUNGA_A_08001666 (349 words)

	Arjuna Ranatunga : Sri Lanka : Cricket : CricketZone.Com
		Arjuna Ranatunga : Sri Lanka : Cricket : CricketZone.Com
		Arjuna Ranatunga was Sri Lanka’s captain when they won the 1996 World Cup.
		Despite his relative inability to scamper the quick single which is considered essential in one-day cricket, Ranatunga has an uncanny ability to keep the scoreboard ticking over using deft placement on both sides of the wicket, combined with fluent driving through the offside in particular.
	www.cricketzone.com /player/arjuna_ranatunga (239 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Cricket \| Ranatunga bids farewell
		Ranatunga shared his decision with me as we took a stroll down to the pitch before the start of play in the first Test against South Africa at Galle and I felt a great sense of sadness gripping me.
		To me, he was not the greatest batsman the country has produced, and may not be even the greatest captain of Sri Lanka, but quite definitely he is one of the finest men to tread on a cricket field and a great human being.
		Arjuna Ranatunga's legendary status in Sri Lanka will live on whichever path he now chooses to tread.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/867345.stm (879 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sri Lanka's World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga, who is now an established politician, feels time is running out for Bangladesh to justify their inclusion in the elite league.
		Ranatunga, who is now the deputy minister for Investment, Tourism and Promotion & Industry in Sri Lanka however, questioned the commitment of the young players of Bangladesh having followed them in the Asia Cup and ICC Champions Trophy.
		Ranatunga was confident that with the right people in the right places, Bangladesh could make an impression.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/09/18/d40918040230.htm (385 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Warne deserved life ban - Ranatunga
		Former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga Sunday launched a fresh attack on his cricketing nemesis Shane Warne, saying the Australian spinner should have been banned for life for taking drugs.
		While Warne watched his team play the fifth and final one-day international against Sri Lanka, Ranatunga was canvassing support in his bid to get re-elected as a legislator in upcoming polls.
		Ranatunga reportedly retorted by saying that it was better to swallow a sheep than to take what the Australian had been ingesting — a reference to him using a banned diuretic.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/306001.htm (333 words)

	Bail for Arjuna after the ball controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Colombo, March 7: Former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga was released on bail on Wednesday after surrendering to police investigating an alleged assault on a group of schoolboys who hit a cricket ball into the yard of Ranatunga’s family home.
		Ranatunga, who became the country’s sports idol in 1996 when he led Sri Lanka to a surprise win in the World Cup, returned to the island on Wednesday after playing a charity match in Kenya for victims of the Indian earthquake.
		College teachers and students took to the streets on Monday demanding the arrest of the Ranatungas, sons of a powerful cabinet minister.Ranatunga’s mother Nandanie said her children were not in the house at the time of the clash.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20010308/isp08051.html (304 words)

	CNN/SI - Cricket - Bruce Yardley applauds Ranatunga removal - Thursday July 08, 1999 11:41 AM
		Yardley, who spent 16 months in 1996-97 as the team's coach, described Ranatunga as a self-serving captain who faked injuries to bat with a runner and took far too much credit for the 1996 World Cup win.
		Yardley, who said he was sacked after trying to have Ranatunga replaced as captain, said the former captain and deputy De Silva should take much of the blame for Sri Lanka's dismal World Cup performance this year.
		He was surprised when he arrived in Sri Lanka to see the way Ranatunga and De Silva treated their teammates.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/1999/07/08/yardley_slanka_ap (499 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Sports
		Calcutta: Over a decade has passed, but Arjuna Ranatunga (the then Sri Lanka captain, who is now a politician) hasn’t forgotten his headline-making showdown with Darrell Hair.
		Ranatunga appreciated the restraint shown by Inzamam in not staging a protest as soon as the ball was changed.
		Ranatunga felt the ICC had done the “correct thing” by keeping Hair out of Sri Lanka’s matches for seven years after that ugly face-off at the MCG (December 1995), but the Australian still hadn’t “reformed himself.”
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060822/asp/sports/story_6641363.asp (454 words)

	User Reviews and comparison blog on Arjuna Ranatunga - Sports Personalities by warrior on MouthShut.com
		As a leader Arjuna Ranatunga is one of the best Asian captains in the recent past.
		Ranatunga first applied the 15 over batting policy in the subcontinent pitches which is now the most important tactics of batsmen.
		After retirement Ranatunga is now a member of the Singhalese parliament, wish him a successful political and personal life.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Arjuna_Ranatunga-70440.html (386 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		Ranatunga, a Member of Parliament who is doing TV duty in the World Cup, felt the Indians have it in them to repeat 1983.
		Ranatunga smiled when reminded that Sourav Ganguly and John Wright were following his (and Dav Whatmore’s) strategy of packing the XI with seven batsmen.
		Talking about Srinath, who has been at his best for the past couple of months, Ranatunga said: “If he is thinking of quitting, then he must be allowed to take a decision on his own...
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030312/asp/sports/story_1759378.asp (538 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Warne ducks Ranatunga questions
		Warne did not talk about his recent verbal jousting with Ranatunga, but said he looked forward to playing international cricket after serving a 12-month drug suspension.
		"Arjuna, he's probably slotting himself around at 150 kilos at the moment, is he?" Warne had said.
		Ranatunga had reportedly retorted by saying that it was better to eat meat than to consume the banned substances that the Australian had been ingesting.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/305955.htm (425 words)

	Daily Excelsior.........state
		Cricket supremo Arjuna Ranatunga’s surprise announcement that he is to retire from the game has sent Sri Lanka’s parliamentarians into a spin amid reports that he may enter the political fray.
		Ranatunga’s father, Reggie Ranatunga, is a Deputy Minister in president Chandrika Kumaratunga’s people’s alliance Government, but the younger Ranatunga is thought to be cool towards the Government.
		The family friend said Ranatunga was expected to devote more attention to his private insurance broking business and spend more time with his wife Samadara, son Diyan (11) and daughter Thiyangi (7).
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00july22/sports.htm (2339 words)

	ABC Sport - Cricket - Ranatunga says Warne got off lightly
		Former Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga has launched a fresh attack on his cricketing nemesis Shane Warne, saying the Australian spinner should have been banned for life for taking drugs.
		In the lead-up to the Test series, Ranatunga and Warne have been engaged in a verbal spat.
		Ranatunga reportedly retorted by saying that it was better to swallow a sheep than to take what the Australian had been ingesting - a reference to him using a banned diuretic.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s1055937.htm (440 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 341 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday agreed to represent his country on a key International Cricket Council (ICC) committee, ending a self-imposed five-year exile from the game.
		Ranatunga, who quit international cricket in 2000, replaced former teammate and deputy Aravinda de Silva as Sri Lanka's representative on the ICC Cricket Committee.
		Ranatunga's appointment to the ICC body is seen as a political move since he is part of the government and De Silva was vice-president of the erstwhile elected SLC.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/05/14/d50514041647.htm (341 words)

	MSN INDIA - Cut Hair off Elite Umpires Panel: Ranatunga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Colombo: Sri Lanka's World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga wants Darrel Hair to be taken off ICC Elite Umpires panel in the wake of the revelation that the Australian had offered to quit his post in exchange of money following the ball tampering row.
		Ranatunga, who had threatened to walk-out on Sri Lanka's tour of Australia in 1997-98 when Muttiah Muralitharan was called for chucking in a one-day match, said "bad characters" like Hair were spoiling relations between countries by their conduct and it was time the ICC took a firm action against him.
		Ranatunga said issues like these were souring relations between two teams.
	content.msn.co.in /Sports/Cricket/Stories/CricketPTI_280806_1252.htm (400 words)

	Ranatunga hits out at Hayden's remarks - Cricket West Indies
		Arjuna Ranatunga, the former Sri Lankan captain, has responded to Matthew Hayden's remark of subcontinental batsmen targeting personal landmarks.
		Ranatunga also added that he wasn't surprised with Hayden's comments and said, "I am quite used to it.
		There was also a mention of the current Indian side and Ranatunga likened them to his victorious team that won the World Cup in 1996.
	www.cricketwi.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=205 (570 words)

	ABC Sport - Cricket - Ranatunga hits back at Warne's eating jibe
		Former Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga has hit back at long-time sparring partner Shane Warne for making fun of his size and eating habits.
		Speaking from his home in Colombo, Ranatunga returned serve, saying if he swallows a lamb or a goat, it is none of Warne's business.
		Ranatunga added that he does not swallow those pills and blame his mother for it, referring to the Australian's ban for taking a diuretic.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s1050439.htm (311 words)

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