day. Sidath Wettimuny held the Sri Lankan record for the highest Test individual innings, after scoring 190 against England in 1984, Kuruppu, however, passed that score by 11 runs, making 201 not out in 777 minutes to become the first Sri Lankan to hit a double Test century. Six men have later repeated his feat. The two teams agreed to cancel the rest of the series owing to security fears, following a bomb blast near the New Zealand team's hotel. However, the double century cemented his place in the selectors' minds, and by the end of the three-team World Series tournament in January 1988, he was a regular fixture in the ODI side. However, he failed to back that up with the bat, and after a disastrous Nehru Cup in October 1989, where he strung together 36 runs in five innings and Sri Lanka finished last out of the sixth teams, Kuruppu was shuffled out of the team and Hashan Tillakaratne took his place behind the stumps. He was given one last chance as opener in 1991 when Sri Lanka travelled to England for a Test, but Sri Lanka lost by 137 runs and Kuruppu only made scores of 5 and 21. That was his last international game. Kuruppu went on to work within Sri Lankan cricket, and he was made National Team Coach for the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in 1998, Team Manager of Sri Lanka A Team for Tours of South Africa 1997–98, Under 19 team manager for world cup in New Zealand in 2001–02, Team Manager for the Sri Lanka National Team tours of Pakistan and New Zealand in 2004 and UAE Tour in 2005 and reappointed as Manager in 2009-10 for the T20 World Cup in UK, ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa and Test series in India. Kuruppu also served as a Sri Lanka National Selector on five different occasions in the years of 1999,2000,2011,2015 and 2018. Kuruppu also Coached the National Teams of Singapore & Maldives. Trivia Kuruppu has played the fewest Tests of any double centurion (4 Tests), and holds the world record for scoring the slowest ever Test match double century in terms of balls (548) and in terms of minutes (777). He became the first player in history to score a century as a wicket-keeper batsman on Test debut, and is still the only such player to score a double century.