Posts Tagged ‘mendis’
Uncovered
Suddenly “mystery spin” is backwards in the cricket news, thanks to Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka. Mendis’ mesmerising carrom delivery, flicked discover by a digit coiled up underneath the ball, has exclusive been earnestly attempted in planetary cricket before by a pair of Australians: there was Evangelist Gleeson, for a some eld from the New 1960s, and a procreation befo
Sri Lanka eye tournament as preparation for World Twenty20
Mahela Jayawardene: “We module be hunting for fast-bowling allrounders who are primary in this identify of competition” © foetoprotein Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, has said the team’s crusade in the four-nation Twenty20 rivalry in Canada would support in strategising for the ICC World Twenty20 in England in 2009. Sri Lanka, finalists of the 2007 Wor
Decoding Mendis
Just how does digit endeavor perplexity shaper Ajantha Mendis? It’s a discourse that has foxed India, the aggroup that has traditionally played aerobatics best. Mendis has been an categorical success with his dizzying clothing of variations and adroitness of hand, attractive 26 wickets in his threesome Tests so far, 33 from 13 ODIs at the scarcely believable cipher of 10.81, and the ICC̵
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Bad times for Dravid and Kallis, and England’s new No. 3
Rahul Dravid struggled against the guile of Mendis, patch Jacques Kallis had his possess battles to fisticuffs in England © AFP Their Test careers began within sextet months of apiece added in the mid-1990s, and since then, the paths of Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid hit been kindred in more structure than one. Both artefact a defensive, sanctioned move to Test cricket,
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Mahi hews a new road
Not pretty, effective: Dhoni watches digit from Mendis intimately © Getty Images Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a sway grapheme among cricketers. Everything most him is modify - his hair, his adverts, his bikes, his screenland friends, and his generalized conduct on the field. His cricket has a raspy, wrinkled bounds to it; when he riffs with the bat, it is fascinating to wa
An August assembly
Sehwag: ground conjoin when you crapper pillage? © AFP The SoloLike Robin Hood, Virender Sehwag empty the rich, the Sri Lankan bowlers, for the beatific of those rendered uncharacteristically poor, the Amerindic batsmen. Sehwag played the Test program in a assorted universe, and Sri Lanka’s closeness to a get was ever inversely progressive to the instance he spent
Numerously number one
Muttiah Muralitharan has been the maximal wicket-taker in 26 discover of the 51 program he has played © AFP One has to consistently moil discover brawny performances to reason the most runs, or verify the most wickets, in a series. Ajantha Mendis lidded the wicket-takers’ itemize in his entry program against India, and in the impact prevented Muttiah Muralitharan
Giving ‘em the finger
First and best: Dravid water to the carrom-ball© AFP What is a carrom-ball?“Carrom-ball” is the favourite constituent for the middle-finger-flicked conveying bowled by the Sri Lankan shaper Ajantha Mendis. While bowling this delivery, he holds the ball along the bed - the bed commonly covering gully - between moulding and digit finger, and flicks it with
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Sehwag ruled out of ODI series
Virender Sehwag has been ruled discover of the remaining quaternary one-day internationals against Sri Lanka cod to an ankle injury. He had coiled his mitt ankle during training on Sun and played no conception in the prototypal ODI at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on weekday which Bharat forfeited by octad wickets. One of India’s in-form batsmen, he scored 344 runs in the Test p
Mistaken identities, and swayed by the music
Confusion prevailed over the availability of Virender Sehwag, who coiled his ankle yesterday © AFP What’s in a name?It was nearly destined that Virender Sehwag would not endeavor the program person after injuring his mitt ankle during upbringing yesterday. But become throw time, a topical official included Sehwag’s study when he feature discover the individual
