Arjuna Ranatunga

Arjuna Ranatunga should be modelling for refrigerators -- the Lankan captain is easily the coolest thing this side of the North Pole.

Coming in with a crisis of considerable proportions confronting him, Ranatunga kept his nerve, and settled down to his usual nudge-poke-prod style of play.

The experienced left-hander is really a master of working the ball around, and that mastery was on show today, together with that other trademark -- the smiling stroll down the wicket where other batsmen would run their singles. His biggest contribution was the way he shepherded his partner, Kaluwitharana, along, keeping his junior partner focussed and ensuring that he didn't lose his head.

Though he was the junior partner in the sixth wicket partnership of 84 off 92 deliveries, he was easily its guiding spirit. And his dismissal, when it came, was against the run o

Arjuna Ranatunga caught Hussain bowled Ealham 32/42 FoW: 6-149 (33.6 overs)

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