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KARACHI (Reuters) - India's limited-overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes Sri Lanka's new bowling weapon, unorthodox spinner Ajantha Mendis, will provide the sternest of tests for his side on their impending tour of the island.

Playing in just his eighth international, Mendis used a dizzying array of deliveries to rip through the Indian batting order with figures of 6-13 as Sri Lanka eased to a 100-run victory in the Asia Cup final in Pakistan on Sunday.

The 23-year-old was recognised as the man of the tournament for his 17-wicket contribution and his impact was highlighted by India's explosive wicketkeeper-batsman.

"He is a difficult bowler and we will have to prepare ourselves for him in the coming series," Dhoni said after the final.

"The good thing is that we will be playing the test matches first and we have experienced batsmen in the test side," he added.

"The burden of scoring off him quickly will not be there and we will get time to get used to him."

India open a three-match tour of Sri Lanka with the first test in Colombo on July 23 before embarking on a five-match one-day international series.

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Admitting that Mendis had often left his batsmen clueless, Dhoni said the squad would spend time watching recordings of Mendis in action before the tour to have a better understanding of his action.

Playing against Mendis for the first time in the final, Dhoni felt that his batsmen failed to read the bowler because of his unique variations and grip.

"Most of the time when he flights the ball it is a 'googly' or an off-spinner. But when he bowls a flatter one it is generally a leg-spinner and when you play inside the line for turn you will be in trouble," Dhoni said.

India announce their test squad on Wednesday and are expected to be boosted by the return of the experienced batting trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.

Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene said Mendis had given his team more options and was the perfect foil for the experienced Muttiah Muralitharan.

"You can never discount Murali but Mendis is a confident bowler and he knows what he wants," Jayawardene said.

"He is something new and he gives us more options to attack as he can be used in different ways."

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KARACHI (Reuters) - India's limited-overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes Sri Lanka's new bowling weapon, unorthodox spinner Ajantha Mendis, will provide the sternest of tests for his side on their impending tour of the island.

Playing in just his eighth international, Mendis used a dizzying array of deliveries to rip through the Indian batting order with figures of 6-13 as Sri Lanka eased to a 100-run victory in the Asia Cup final in Pakistan on Sunday.

The 23-year-old was recognised as the man of the tournament for his 17-wicket contribution and his impact was highlighted by India's explosive wicketkeeper-batsman.

"He is a difficult bowler and we will have to prepare ourselves for him in the coming series," Dhoni said after the final.

"The good thing is that we will be playing the test matches first and we have experienced batsmen in the test side," he added.

"The burden of scoring off him quickly will not be there and we will get time to get used to him."

India open a three-match tour of Sri Lanka with the first test in Colombo on July 23 before embarking on a five-match one-day international series.

VIDEO REVIEW

Admitting that Mendis had often left his batsmen clueless, Dhoni said the squad would spend time watching recordings of Mendis in action before the tour to have a better understanding of his action.

Playing against Mendis for the first time in the final, Dhoni felt that his batsmen failed to read the bowler because of his unique variations and grip.

"Most of the time when he flights the ball it is a 'googly' or an off-spinner. But when he bowls a flatter one it is generally a leg-spinner and when you play inside the line for turn you will be in trouble," Dhoni said.

India announce their test squad on Wednesday and are expected to be boosted by the return of the experienced batting trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.

Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene said Mendis had given his team more options and was the perfect foil for the experienced Muttiah Muralitharan.

"You can never discount Murali but Mendis is a confident bowler and he knows what he wants," Jayawardene said.

"He is something new and he gives us more options to attack as he can be used in different ways."

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  1. Indian team is never responsible for we have greaterest team in whole universe.

    SOmeone did not tell mendis of this and so he cheated to take asia cup from greaterest indian team. This cup is rightfully belonnging to india team.

    I thnk riky ponting is also involved in this racialist conspiracy against gresterest indian team.


  2. Yuvraj.

  3. a part of the problem is the over confidence of our players and they should have analysed Mendis before the match instead of praising him after the match

  4. As Dhoni said the tight schedule, now a days cricket is become like serials & reality shows.  Every 2nd day there will be a tournment and 3rd day the final.

    To be frank I was interested in Fedrer Nadal Wimbeldon final & I really enjoyed it.

  5. GEORGE BUSH!!!

  6. omg cmon lets not blame responsibilty on ppl

  7. we lost coz of

    Ajantha Mendis...................awesome

    and Sanath Jayasurya..............................

    I don't think we must blame any one...................

    our team played as best as they could yesterday.....it didn't work out............

  8. get over it the better team won

  9. Do you really think any one will read that question, it's a book.

    I will answer your thinly disguised question though, it's easy, the Indian public is responsible for Indians loss as with all losses, they put so much pressure on their team, the physical side of sport is not up to world standard, where has their hockey team gone, but once again who is up the top there and in cricket, must get boring.

  10. Wait, wait....  what about the umpire?

  11. its batsman fault

  12. The surprise package ... Mendis !

  13. Mendis

  14. India always loss the final of tri series or the big tournaments like Asia cup, World cup. Only they won T20 world cup last year.

  15. Steve Buchnor, BCCI, Ricky Ponting, Suspect bowling actions, Malcom Speed,Australian Crowds,doctored Pitch's, Ball Tampering, Corrupt officals, ICC. Its all a consiparcy against India ( or so im led to belive cause the only place I get cricket news and opions is off YA)

  16. I hold you personally responsible. You, and you alone.

  17. We cannot blame one - Its a unity game & Complete team & lack of team spirit.

  18. Why can you Indian's not admit you were beaten by the better team on the day?.

    Someone always has to lay the blame game,it is either the cheating umpires,or the opponent didn't walk so that's why we lost,lately as their is no one else to blame it comes down to the individual player..

    Why cant it be you lost because the whole team played poorly?

  19. Poor Strategie Has made India Cricket Team Lost against Srilanka and Credit goes to 7 Top Batsem in India they addeed Glory to Prove that we cant win Final ....

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