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Dilscoop Down Under: Sri Lanka legend’s quiet return by Louis Cameron One of Sri Lanka’s best ever batters has settled with his family in Melbourne’s outer suburbs, and has made a low-key cricket comeback source:-cricket.com.au   Tillakaratne Dilshan laughs when he explains what the young players he coaches most want to be taught. “When I am training all the kids, they want to learn how to play the ‘Dilscoop’,” says the former Sri Lankan captain, who now lives in Beaconsfield in Melbourne’s outer southeastern suburbs. Most presumed Dilshan’s famed ‘Dilscoop’ had been retired when he called time on a 17-year international career following a 2016 limited-overs series against Australia. But having politely declined offers to play for local clubs that had gotten wind a man with 39 international centuries to his name had moved to town along with his wife Manjula Thilini and their four children, Dilshan finally relented when ...