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Mad Max

Three Test hundreds -- two against Pakistan and one against England -- before his 21st birthday marked De Silva out as a man for the future.

In 1991 came the finest moment of his Test career, when he scored a brilliant 267 against New Zealand.

He scored three successive centuries and for a total of seven in Tests in 1997-1998, which by any yardstick was a truly remarkable year.

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