Talent is not all about understanding and developing your batting capabilities. But using your limited capabilities encapsulated with team-leading and teamwork... And the resulting synergy had helped Sri Lankan Cricket in a great deal during almost all late '90s where Arjuna changed the cause of SL cricket
Those days were awesome. Srilanka was my papa's favorite time and Arjuna was his favorite player. He is no more anyway. SriLanka had a dominance in Cricket world for a very short period of 1994-1997. After that the declining phase started.
Dominance period was till 2015 after that SL cricket fell apart ..remember they won 1996 WC...2 time runners up consecutively in 2007 and 2011...won 2014 t20 WC...being runners up in 2009 and 2012...
Golden days of sri lankan cricket. ..it's really pitty that when we think about present sri lankan cricket and present sri lankan cricketers. .etc .though I don't agree Mr arjuna Ranasinghe s current Political views and stance we can not deny absolute greatness of his cricketing knowledge / abilities or skills specially his captency skills etc ..so as a cricketer and cricket captain /leader his name always blossom and in all sri lankan hearts and minds ..Mr arjuna thank you for the service that you have given to the sri lankan cricket and specially for our Motherland. .
Singer Quadrangular Series in 1994 it was.... Sri Lanka and India made it to the finals.Australia was the other team.Sri Lanka winning all the round robin matches went down to India in the rain curtailed 25 over game in the final..... Well played Sri Lanka🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
if i was ARJUNA RANATUNGA, in this match, i would've rested ROSHAN MAHANAMA, sended Sanjeeva Ranatunga at opening position with Sanath Jayasuriya & as ARJUNA RANATUNGA, i would've came at one-down position & would've scored 100 plus runs innings instead of 82 runs.
Thank God ranatunga didn't asked for runner..... ranatunga batting style didn't seem to be convincing , but it was difficult for the bowlers to bowl him as he was good in both side of the wicket.
As an Indian fan, I never got irritated by any opposition batsman than Ranatunga. He used to find gaps in middle overs with ease and took his singles by just walking most of the time.
මට මතක විදිහට මේ match එකේ akram rest කලා final එකට fit එකේ play කරන්න, අන්තිමට match එක පැරදිලා යන්න උනා, හිටියනම් පරදින්නත් තිබ්බ අපි. As i remember that akram took a rest to play with fully fit finally, end of the day they lost and couldn’t made the final,otherwise it wasn’t easy with Abram
no ! then Dhanushka Guathilaka would be the best fitness man now.But he failed the fitness test. If Arjuna tested like that he would have passed it easily.See how fast he run in between wicket. not that 6 packs or built muscles count as fitness when it comes to sports.
@@Hasi_era having so much fat on belly and butts, one cant even imagine to compete in terms of running, fielding, bowling with players of today's generation. Ranatunga was a boiled potatao, you just cant defend him in terms of physique😂
@@sachinyadav-rw7hp that's what I said now. even he do fitness test today he will pass it without any effort. because fitness doesn't mean belly or fat percentage. eventhough he has no 6 packs he got fitness very well .
@@Hasi_era for a player like him who representing his country, the definition of fitness become more wide and exhaustive, could you show any player today who carries so much belly fat?? I guess you are obessed with 6 packs, as i never mentioned it, not even once in my conversation. So dont teach what you dont know, as far as fitness is concerned Ranatunga would have failed today, had he be given said test
@@sachinyadav-rw7hp ranathunga wont ever fail today fitness test. Because recently sri lankan players have to face fitness test . Dhanushka gunathilaka and 4 others (seems like very well in outlook) failed fitness test.Pass mark is people who can run 2km within 8.30 mins. As you seen how fast Arjuna run in this video we can sure he will pass that test without any doubt .
People normally talked about his captaincy. What about his batt record?? He has 25 man of the match awards, which is the 5th most number of man of the matches for Sri Lanka. But people always talked about so called legends only
people say this is before money of premier leagues of other countries destroy the game of cricket and end the carriers of players , before those premier leagues buy players , they got a patriotic mind set to play for the country
hey Cricket king Zohaib, any chance you've got to upload ROSHAN MAHANAMA's 119 odi innings vs Zimbabwe that was played at Harare, on 1994, please let me know.
Is there is good reason why Sri Lanka disgracefully FAILED to benefit this great man/cricketers who moulded his team through his years as captain, to glorious triumphs ? A couple of players who despite fine performances got great farewell shows at their final games, could never have brought S ri Lanka the honours that Arjuna enabled his team to win for Sri Lanka. There perhaps were political undercurrents which undermined him. But Arjuna must know that he stands the tallest in the country among the nation for his magnificence as a classy all rounder, the most brilliant Lankan among world cricket captains and a man of incredible courage and integrity as a captain and a Sri Lankan against any attempt at global critics of any Lankan cricketer. Since no one else has paid him his due honour, I join all Lankans here and abroad to proudly acclaim this untimate cricketer , captain and gentleman who proudly led this nation across the world. I know the whole world of cricket feels the same about him.
Arbino ashram me France kee painting equipment bejjo... Maska chaska mari merkko.. give her Fastrack watch... Oskoo Osmania biscuit ? 100 year's lease to the port why can't it be 45 years. We can colbrate or run a PESTS for metro line in Colombo. Round up the Drama Sena enter 2πr/3 .How many years. Why no Russell arnold. John Lennon imagine ( What if Sister nose didn't bleed ) paper Planes____ Even her documentary has One second in house . Srilankan Army go to bali. We will put a Apollo statue. Talk to be Johnny. Follow a protocol to reverse it for 12 years
I don’t see any batting greatness in Ranathunga. It’s wired that how he was able to recognize In international level with his mediocre batting credentials..
Arjuna Ranatunga may not be the most eye-catching of batsmen, true, may not have got those big hundreds either. His record in Tests may sound quite moderate too, despite being still sufficient. However, 7500 runs at an average of 36 and a strike rate of 78 had not been that mediocre at all in ODIs for a batsman who had represented the era 1982-2000 .... Yes, there had been a few batsmen who averaged 40/40+ in ODIs during this period too. But, except for the almost incomparable/peerless Viv Richards who maintained an ultra-explosive strike rate of 90 which had been one of a kind until mid '90s, only Zaheer Abbas and Dean Jones among them (who averaged 40/40+ in ODIs) had strike rates higher than 70. These two had 85 and 72.5 respectively. Miandad, Haynes, Greenidge, despite being top batsmen of the day in their own right averaging 40/40+ in the format, had their strike rates in 60s .... The 82* by Ranatunga which is on display here had been in the Singer Trophy held in Sri Lanka in mid '94. It's during the match against Australia in the same tournament that Tendulkar scored his very first hundred in ODIs having taken part in 80+ ODIs already by then, so he had only started his way towards the greatness in the format. Mark Waugh had been yet to develop as a top-drawer batsman in the format. The likes of Gary Kirsten and Michael Beven had just made their debut/s. Out of the bunch of batsmen who were to dominate the format in the decade to come, only Lara & Saeed Anwar had scored a few outstanding hundreds already by '94. These two had already started showing what they were truly capable of, but both had still been in the initial period of their careers. Vinod Kambli, Basit Ali, Inzamam-ul-Haq had already given the glimpses of their potential, still they all had been pretty early in their careers, eventually it's only Inzamam who did any sort of justice to their early promise. Sanath Jayasuriya had been yet to establish himself as one of the most-feared batsmen, despite having a few half-centuries already under his belt. Ricky Ponting had been yet to make his debut on the international stage .... The likes of Adam Gilchrist had been unheard of on the international stage, and the likes of Richie Richardson, Robin Smith, etc. were considered attacking batsmen despite their strike rates hovering 65-70 for the most part of their ODI careers .... That had been the context by '94 .... The fact here is that most top-order and middle-order batsmen back then from early '80s to mid '90s were happy to maintain an average of 30 with a strike rate 55-60-65 in this format, so ones who could average 35 at strike rates of 75+ were certainly above-average, there were not many such batsmen then (unlike in this era 2010-2020-2022 where the game has become pretty much an over-hyped circus made almost excessively batting-friendly in almost every aspect for nothing but the commercial exploitation, thereby killing the balance between the bat and ball which previously existed for decades ...). Back in those days, most teams were happy to score 250 in an ODI, a score in excess of 300 was considered a luxury. That had been the context then, that's why one cannot blindly compare these numbers/statistics across different eras without such contextual awareness/understanding. In terms of sheer elegance/aesthetics in batsmanship and the ability to score big hundreds, Ranatunga may not match even his team mate Aravinda De Silva who represented pretty much the same era 1984-2003 (despite De Silva being 2 years junior to Ranatunga), still in terms of the average and the strike rate too he's almost there with De Silva who had averaged 35 with an above-average strike rate of 81 for his day. In addition, Ranatunga had been someone who batted with the end result in mind more often than not, he used to play marshaling every resource he had despite how limited it seemed/seems at times. Despite not having been blessed with the perfect physique, the eye-catching elegance in strokeplay or the ability to score big hundreds, he could still play decisive innings of 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc. which still proved vital in achieving the winning totals in his era. That's why he had been still effective and could win many ODIs for Sri Lanka as a batsman alone too, this 82* on display here is only one such example .... I have no reason to glorify him, he was certainly not someone without flaws, still he was not all that mediocre either (as you had implied above in your comment !...) at least in ODIs ....
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He has his own batting style, No man can lead the Sri Lankan Cricket Team like him. The best and most successful captain Sri Lanka ever made.
absolutely
Not a single smartphone on a single hand. People fully enjoying the event.....
Good old days when life was simpler
Brilliantly said mate
Well saide bro during that day pepole just goest to enjoy the match but now a days they just go there theyer not even watcbing the match 👍
Absolutely bro
This is smart phone 📱 which give us these privileges to see these gems everywhere don't forget
Ranatunga - always heroic to me , love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 , one of his great captain’s knock !
Ranatunga-always grandmaster to me😅😅😍😍😍😍
For me dhoni always reminds me of Arjuna bcoz of his calm cool and look at walking style same as dhoni just free ....he is so cool ...
#sivakumarbala Actual captain cool is Arjuna , Dhoni is one of second generations
@@Nimalyapa1116 That's what he said
Why try the bad way to state
Yes rightly said. But Arjuna took fearless decisions & that's what makes him different.
Talent is not all about understanding and developing your batting capabilities. But using your limited capabilities encapsulated with team-leading and teamwork... And the resulting synergy had helped Sri Lankan Cricket in a great deal during almost all late '90s where Arjuna changed the cause of SL cricket
Very well said...!!!
Ranatunga, a cool customer and inspite of a big belly was quick between the wickets. A great captain. ❤😊
Mr Fitness of Sri Lanka the World Cup winning captain
Those days were awesome. Srilanka was my papa's favorite time and Arjuna was his favorite player. He is no more anyway.
SriLanka had a dominance in Cricket world for a very short period of 1994-1997. After that the declining phase started.
Dominance period was till 2015 after that SL cricket fell apart ..remember they won 1996 WC...2 time runners up consecutively in 2007 and 2011...won 2014 t20 WC...being runners up in 2009 and 2012...
@@ishaqkhan9443 absolutely right
@@ishaqkhan9443 Joint champions of the ICC Champions Trophy 2002 too (with India, the finals couldn't be held/completed due to rain ...).
Ranatunga captainship is golden days of srilankan cricket
Those days...every batsmen's highest score was against India.
ඒ කලේ වසීම්ලට වකාලට ගහනවා කියන්නේ ලේසි පහසු උන් නෙමේ අර්ජුනලා අරවින්දලා සනාලා ♥️🇱🇰
Golden days of sri lankan cricket. ..it's really pitty that when we think about present sri lankan cricket and present sri lankan cricketers. .etc .though I don't agree Mr arjuna Ranasinghe s current Political views and stance we can not deny absolute greatness of his cricketing knowledge / abilities or skills specially his captency skills etc ..so as a cricketer and cricket captain /leader his name always blossom and in all sri lankan hearts and minds ..Mr arjuna thank you for the service that you have given to the sri lankan cricket and specially for our Motherland. .
Singer Quadrangular Series in 1994 it was.... Sri Lanka and India made it to the finals.Australia was the other team.Sri Lanka winning all the round robin matches went down to India in the rain curtailed 25 over game in the final..... Well played Sri Lanka🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
අදටත් best fighter ලංකාවෙන් බිහිවුණු... අපේ කාලයේ වීරයෙක්...
Captain Cool ❤ Best captain that ever produced by 🇱🇰
හෂාන්ලා එ දවස්වල ඇණ වගෙ තමා...දැන් උන් පෙරහැරෙනෙ
අලුත් එවා බලන්න බැරි නිසා පරන එවා බලනවා..කොහොමද කඩලු අතර දිව්ල්ල..
රටට ණය නැති මගේ රටේ තවත් එක් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ ක්‍රිකට් සෙන්පතියෙක්
මේ තමයි ශ්‍රීලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවේ ඉතාමත්ම ස්වර්ණමය යුගය .... ඒ කාලේ ශ්‍රීලාංකා කණ්ඩායම සහභාගි වන ක්‍රිකට් තරඟයක් නරඹනවා කියන්නේ කියාගත්න බැරි තරම් උද්‍යෝගයක් දැනෙන්නේ ... ඒ වගේම අර්ජුන රණතුංග කියන්නේ වචනයේ පරිසමාප්තයෙන් ඉතාමත් හොඳ නායකයෙක් .... ඒත් අවාසනාවකට අද ක්‍රිකට් තරඟයක් නරඹන කොට මේ වගේ උද්‍යෝගයක් කොහෙත්ම නැහැ ...
Though Ranatunga had a very big belly, he played very well. Love and respect for this Legend.
Nice batting
Arjuna Ranatunga sir
You are my favorite batsman in Sri Lanka Cricket Team
Great Respect Sir Ji and Good Bating against Pakistan Jai Hind Bharat Mata ki Jai Vandematram Sir Ji 🙏
අප්පට යකො බෝලේ හතරට යන්නත් කලින්ම ඔක්කොම එඋන් ග්‍රවුන්ඩ් එකේ...දැන් ක්‍රිකට් ගහන උන් කෑවේ ප්‍රේක්ෂකයන් ගේ ඔය මොරාල් එක..මතක් වෙද්දිත් පුපට පයින් ගහන්න හිතෙන්නෙ..
Sirawata e kale minissunta cricket kiyna de bokkatama danenwa ne😥😥😥
බලපන්කෝ ග්‍රවුන්ඩ් එකට ඇවිත් මල් දීලාත් යනවා..තව මැච් එකක දැක්ක කොඩිය උස්සන් ඇවිත් බදාගෙන යනවා..
He was one of the best finishers in ODIs.
if i was ARJUNA RANATUNGA, in this match, i would've rested ROSHAN MAHANAMA, sended Sanjeeva Ranatunga at opening position with Sanath Jayasuriya & as ARJUNA RANATUNGA, i would've came at one-down position & would've scored 100 plus runs innings instead of 82 runs.
Arjuna was a DABBANG captain..
love from india..
kohli is an acting dabang
Kabir khan bowling action having some resemblance with Waseem Akram
Golden days kf Sri Lankan Cricket
Arjuna soul is totally disconnected from our spirit for eternity.
Another Brilliant Upload keep it up
එදා අපේ ක්‍රිකට් ....
Arjuna - the ultimate athlete!
It's very great player I like you sir.
Excellent facilities.beautiful atmosphere.
මේවා දකිද්දි ඇහැට කදුලු වෙනවා අර්ජුන සර්
He is amazing Cricketer.
අද අපේ ක්‍රිකට් ගහන උන් මේ කාලේ ඉපදිලාවත් නැතුව ඇති . උන් මේවා බලල වත් නැතුව ඇති මේවා පෙන්නන්න ඕනේ ඕකුන්ට කාලකන්ණි පණ්ඩිත හැත්ත .
Arjuna my world best captain
🇱🇰 sri lankan heroes 💖👌
He was very good while chasing... Very good player in odis
Arjuna😍😍❤️❤️👍👍
Thank God ranatunga didn't asked for runner..... ranatunga batting style didn't seem to be convincing , but it was difficult for the bowlers to bowl him as he was good in both side of the wicket.
As an Indian fan, I never got irritated by any opposition batsman than Ranatunga. He used to find gaps in middle overs with ease and took his singles by just walking most of the time.
How many of you paused for the girl at 0:15? 😉
And another one, the guy listening to the score in the radio @ 4:15
Even withhis bulky built he was good between the wickets,,he rarely got run-out....
Just like Jesse Ryder
මට මතක විදිහට මේ match එකේ akram rest කලා final එකට fit එකේ play කරන්න, අන්තිමට match එක පැරදිලා යන්න උනා, හිටියනම් පරදින්නත් තිබ්බ අපි.
As i remember that akram took a rest to play with fully fit finally, end of the day they lost and couldn’t made the final,otherwise it wasn’t easy with Abram
Please upload final of this series
Look at the beer belly of ranatunga😂
He would have been thrown out today had he tried to play for sri lanka😂
no ! then Dhanushka Guathilaka would be the best fitness man now.But he failed the fitness test. If Arjuna tested like that he would have passed it easily.See how fast he run in between wicket. not that 6 packs or built muscles count as fitness when it comes to sports.
@@Hasi_era having so much fat on belly and butts, one cant even imagine to compete in terms of running, fielding, bowling with players of today's generation.
Ranatunga was a boiled potatao, you just cant defend him in terms of physique😂
@@sachinyadav-rw7hp that's what I said now. even he do fitness test today he will pass it without any effort. because fitness doesn't mean belly or fat percentage. eventhough he has no 6 packs he got fitness very well .
@@Hasi_era for a player like him who representing his country, the definition of fitness become more wide and exhaustive, could you show any player today who carries so much belly fat??
I guess you are obessed with 6 packs, as i never mentioned it, not even once in my conversation. So dont teach what you dont know, as far as fitness is concerned Ranatunga would have failed today, had he be given said test
@@sachinyadav-rw7hp ranathunga wont ever fail today fitness test. Because recently sri lankan players have to face fitness test . Dhanushka gunathilaka and 4 others (seems like very well in outlook) failed fitness test.Pass mark is people who can run 2km within 8.30 mins. As you seen how fast Arjuna run in this video we can sure he will pass that test without any doubt .
LEGEND SS 😺👌 💯🌹💥💫
My favorite skipper
Legend of Cricket
absolutely a marvelles era
People normally talked about his captaincy. What about his batt record?? He has 25 man of the match awards, which is the 5th most number of man of the matches for Sri Lanka. But people always talked about so called legends only
The match was in such a time when Cricket had lot of suspicious questions.
ඔන්න කිුකටිි දැන් යින්නේ හොර වෙස බල්ලො පෙනවනේ බඩුපස්සෙ යනහැටි
people say this is before money of premier leagues of other countries destroy the game of cricket and end the carriers of players , before those premier leagues buy players , they got a patriotic mind set to play for the country
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Great captain cool
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Great upload
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hey Cricket king Zohaib, any chance you've got to upload ROSHAN MAHANAMA's 119 odi innings vs Zimbabwe that was played at Harare, on 1994, please let me know.
Not have this series
Called "Captain Cool" for a reason....
Fantastic
Some of the players in this match have actually killed Bob Woolmer.
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Nice upload . Please upload other matches of this series also if you have . Thank you
Full match is on my channel
Sweep .only shot he used to play against spinners most of the time.
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Zohaib bhai full matches please
Is there is good reason why Sri Lanka disgracefully FAILED to benefit this great man/cricketers who moulded his team through his years as captain, to glorious triumphs ? A couple of players who despite fine performances got great farewell shows at their final games, could never have brought S ri Lanka the honours that Arjuna enabled his team to win for Sri Lanka. There perhaps were political undercurrents which undermined him. But Arjuna must know that he stands the tallest in the country among the nation for his magnificence as a classy all rounder, the most brilliant Lankan among world cricket captains and a man of incredible courage and integrity as a captain and a Sri Lankan against any attempt at global critics of any Lankan cricketer. Since no one else has paid him his due honour, I join all Lankans here and abroad to proudly acclaim this untimate cricketer , captain and gentleman who proudly led this nation across the world. I know the whole world of cricket feels the same about him.
Please read " is there A good reason..
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@@cricketkingzohaib ok good luck for that
Arjuna Ranatunga
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Please upload the pakistan Batting part also.
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Arbino ashram me France kee painting equipment bejjo... Maska chaska mari merkko.. give her Fastrack watch... Oskoo Osmania biscuit ? 100 year's lease to the port why can't it be 45 years. We can colbrate or run a PESTS for metro line in Colombo. Round up the Drama Sena enter 2πr/3 .How many years. Why no Russell arnold. John Lennon imagine ( What if Sister nose didn't bleed ) paper Planes____ Even her documentary has One second in house . Srilankan Army go to bali. We will put a Apollo statue. Talk to be Johnny. Follow a protocol to reverse it for 12 years
please upload match highlights of this match
check my channel. Highlights are there
Why did you deleted some of your videos on this channel will you re upload them or else give me those links
@@cricketkingzohaib give me the link of those videos please I want those ones please
@@cricketkingzohaib I especially miss the hitz segments please re upload them
Ye itna mota sa batsman international kese khel gya....yha hme club level se fitness pe dhyan dene bolte hai
Did anyone noticed arjuna didnt complete his first run when they on 193 of 45 over .
Nostalgia
Murali spotted at 3:50
2:24 😎😌😮
Pakistan match fixing was at its peak in that series.
Strokeless wonder…one of the ugliest batsman ever to have played the game but he always got the job done and scored when mattered.
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First view and first like
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I don’t see any batting greatness in Ranathunga. It’s wired that how he was able to recognize In international level with his mediocre batting credentials..
Arjuna Ranatunga may not be the most eye-catching of batsmen, true, may not have got those big hundreds either. His record in Tests may sound quite moderate too, despite being still sufficient. However, 7500 runs at an average of 36 and a strike rate of 78 had not been that mediocre at all in ODIs for a batsman who had represented the era 1982-2000 .... Yes, there had been a few batsmen who averaged 40/40+ in ODIs during this period too. But, except for the almost incomparable/peerless Viv Richards who maintained an ultra-explosive strike rate of 90 which had been one of a kind until mid '90s, only Zaheer Abbas and Dean Jones among them (who averaged 40/40+ in ODIs) had strike rates higher than 70. These two had 85 and 72.5 respectively. Miandad, Haynes, Greenidge, despite being top batsmen of the day in their own right averaging 40/40+ in the format, had their strike rates in 60s .... The 82* by Ranatunga which is on display here had been in the Singer Trophy held in Sri Lanka in mid '94. It's during the match against Australia in the same tournament that Tendulkar scored his very first hundred in ODIs having taken part in 80+ ODIs already by then, so he had only started his way towards the greatness in the format. Mark Waugh had been yet to develop as a top-drawer batsman in the format. The likes of Gary Kirsten and Michael Beven had just made their debut/s. Out of the bunch of batsmen who were to dominate the format in the decade to come, only Lara & Saeed Anwar had scored a few outstanding hundreds already by '94. These two had already started showing what they were truly capable of, but both had still been in the initial period of their careers. Vinod Kambli, Basit Ali, Inzamam-ul-Haq had already given the glimpses of their potential, still they all had been pretty early in their careers, eventually it's only Inzamam who did any sort of justice to their early promise. Sanath Jayasuriya had been yet to establish himself as one of the most-feared batsmen, despite having a few half-centuries already under his belt. Ricky Ponting had been yet to make his debut on the international stage .... The likes of Adam Gilchrist had been unheard of on the international stage, and the likes of Richie Richardson, Robin Smith, etc. were considered attacking batsmen despite their strike rates hovering 65-70 for the most part of their ODI careers .... That had been the context by '94 .... The fact here is that most top-order and middle-order batsmen back then from early '80s to mid '90s were happy to maintain an average of 30 with a strike rate 55-60-65 in this format, so ones who could average 35 at strike rates of 75+ were certainly above-average, there were not many such batsmen then (unlike in this era 2010-2020-2022 where the game has become pretty much an over-hyped circus made almost excessively batting-friendly in almost every aspect for nothing but the commercial exploitation, thereby killing the balance between the bat and ball which previously existed for decades ...). Back in those days, most teams were happy to score 250 in an ODI, a score in excess of 300 was considered a luxury. That had been the context then, that's why one cannot blindly compare these numbers/statistics across different eras without such contextual awareness/understanding. In terms of sheer elegance/aesthetics in batsmanship and the ability to score big hundreds, Ranatunga may not match even his team mate Aravinda De Silva who represented pretty much the same era 1984-2003 (despite De Silva being 2 years junior to Ranatunga), still in terms of the average and the strike rate too he's almost there with De Silva who had averaged 35 with an above-average strike rate of 81 for his day. In addition, Ranatunga had been someone who batted with the end result in mind more often than not, he used to play marshaling every resource he had despite how limited it seemed/seems at times. Despite not having been blessed with the perfect physique, the eye-catching elegance in strokeplay or the ability to score big hundreds, he could still play decisive innings of 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc. which still proved vital in achieving the winning totals in his era. That's why he had been still effective and could win many ODIs for Sri Lanka as a batsman alone too, this 82* on display here is only one such example .... I have no reason to glorify him, he was certainly not someone without flaws, still he was not all that mediocre either (as you had implied above in your comment !...) at least in ODIs ....
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