Who is this freaking Ajantha Mendis?

Question

hard to pick

but i am sure in couple of months, he'll be easier to pick as he will be exposed more, but none the less, hes a freakish bowler

Answer 1

He is the new boy in the team

a great player who got 17 wickets in the series

got 6 last night in the finals against india

cums from a small village in lanka and grew up with older sibilings he had joined the army

he is now playing for the sri lankan team

wanna find out more type ajantha mendis in youtube and u will see him

he cums from a not so rich family but i guess at the moment he should be very rich.......lol............thats why ppl say neva give up coz ur skill could change ur life

Answer 2

This freaking man is single handedly defeating india as we speak. Six wickets already taken by this freaking man. Wow!

Answer 3

Ajantha Winslo Mendis though classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler he  bowls a mixture of googlies, offbreaks, top-spinners, flippers and legbreaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is.

Mendis  is also a Gunner in the Sri Lanka Artillery  He .was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches.

He made his One-Day International debut against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 2008 and took 3 for 39.

He is a new sensation for Sri Lanka.  By taking 6 wickets for 12 runs he helped easy victory for Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup.

Answer 4

hes the mystery bowler magician

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Answer 5

Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis (born March 11, 1985 in Moratuwa) is a cricketer who plays for the Sri Lankan national cricket team. He is also a Gunner in the Sri Lanka Artillery.

Although classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler, Ajantha Mendis is a spinner who bowls a mixture of googlies, offbreaks, top-spinners, flippers and legbreaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is. Mendis was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches. His performances did not go unnoticed for Mendis was called up to the Sri Lanka squad for the tour of West Indies in April 2008.

A right arm spinner, he made his One-Day International debut against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 2008 and took 3 for 39. He also plays for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.

CARROM BALL

Mendis is the author of a new delivery - the Carrom Ball. Since the Doosra, the Carrom Ball is the latest addition to the cricket lexicon.

To bowl a "carrom ball" in cricket, the ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out/ flicked by the fingers like a Carrom player flicking the disc on a Carrom Board. It could result in an off-break, a leg-break, a googly or even a zooter.

The term Carrom Ball was coined by Mahendra Mapagunaratne - a Sri Lankan lawyer resident in Toronto, Canada.

The veteran West Indies cricket writer Tony Becca wrote in the Jamaica Gleaner: "Mendis bowls everything. With a smile on his face as he caresses the ball before delivering it, he bowls the offbreak, he bowls the legbreak, he bowls the googly, he bowls the flipper, he bowls a straight delivery, he bowls them with different grips and different actions, he bowls them with a different trajectory and at a different pace, and he disguises them brilliantly. The result is that he mesmerises, or bamboozles, batsmen."

Jerome Jayaratne, the Sri Lanka Cricket Academy coach, said: "Mendis is unusual, freaky and has developed a ball which could be described as a 'flicker', which he releases with a snap of his fingers, which is very unusual compared to other orthodox spin bowlers." That ball is reminiscent of the former Australia spinner Johnny Gleeson, who had a similar delivery

Answer 6

all new comers are tough to play in starting in future is going to become useless bowler.that is call faith.

Answer 7

he the bowler who killed indian team and sri lanka won by 100 runs in the final. :)   :) and indians are ;(

Answer 8

he's a good bowler, but he will be soon usual as all bowler's

Answer 9

He bowls the "Carrom Ball" .

He was picked up by KKR- IPL as a future bowler before IPL ended. It was then that he came to be known. He did well in WI.

Answer 10

India lose to a new born star, what a shame

serves you right