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Dav Whatmore
Dav Whatmore was born in Sri Lanka before emigrating to Australia as a child. A right-handed batsman and brilliant slip fieldsman, he scored prolifically in the Sheffield Shield for Victoria, going onto play seven Test matches for Australia during the Packer era with modest success. He retired in 1988-89 to pursue a career in coaching.
He masterminded Sri Lanka's famous World Cup win in 1996, and after a brief spell at Lancashire - where he saw them win a one-day double in 1998, and the National League in 1999 - went back for a second term. His greatest challenge, however, came in 2003, when he took over as Bangladesh's coach, and immediately brought a new optimism and discipline to a team that had not won a single match for four years.
But Bangladesh continued to be routinely beaten (often by huge margins), although Whatmore was adamant that the team would turn the corner. Finally, the moment that Bangladesh cricket had been waiting for arrived, when they beat Zimbabwe at Chittagong, and went on to claim their first series win by drawing at Dhaka - Whatmore joinin
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Dav Whatmore
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | - | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | ||
| Matches | 7 | 1 | ||
| Runs scored | 293 | 2 | ||
| Batting average | 22.53 | 2.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/2 | -/- | ||
| Top score | 77 | 2 | ||
| Balls bowled | 30 | - | ||
| Wickets | - | - | ||
| Bowling average | - | - | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | - | - | ||
| Catches/stumpings | {{{catches/stumpings1}}} | -/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2005 | ||||
Davenell Frederick Whatmore (born 16 March 1954, Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a former international cricketer who represented Australia. He had a very short international career from March 1979 to January 1980 in which he played just 7 Test matches and 1 One Day International. At first-class level, he scored over 6,000 runs for Victoria.
Early life
Whatmore was born in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) and was educated at Royal Preparatory College, Colombo. He and his family migrated to Australia in 1962 as a direct consequence of the Sinhala Only Act. Thereafter he liv
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DAVENELL FREDERICK WHATMORE
Whatmore retired from professional cricket in 1988/89 to hunt a career in coaching. He coached Sri Lanka in two detach spells, throughout the first of which he won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Among those spells, he coached Lancashire where he won the National League in 1998 and 1999, and the NatWest Trophy in 1998.
From 2003 to 2007, he had been coaching Bangladesh. Beneath his coaching, Bangladesh enjoyed comparative triumph, coming from a side that could rarely win matches at all, to a team that can intermittently surprise even the most powerful cricket countries. Whatmore trained them to their first Test match victory early in 2005. Bangladesh dazed the cricket world later that year with a victory over then top ra
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