cricinfo.com - 6/16/2009
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Daniel Vettori was adamant his batsmen picked Ajantha Mendis but acknowledged he was a bowler of quality
Pakistan & the Ajantha Mendis Threat
wellpitched.com 6/28/2009 — The Pakistanis have landed in Colombo, where they play a 3-day game against a Sri Lankan XI from tomorrow, before they head to Galle for the 1st test next week. The series that was left incomplete by some twisted men in Lahore, will now continue in the island over the next month. After the ...
End of the Mystery Spinner?
blog.kridaya.com 7/23/2009 — Rangana Herath’s 5-wicket haul in the last Pakistani innings of this series, while expensive, will mean a longer absence for Ajantha Mendis from the Sri Lankan team. Unless Sri Lanka plans to field three spinners in a Test, it will be Herath who will accompany Murali in the upcoming ...
Mendis
armball.blogspot.com 8/23/2009 — Mendis is on a way down. I still want him to tour India in October and November. I want him to get hit all over by Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman and Yuvraj. And then I wont care if he plays or get dropped. He has been a major hyped player who just failed to live up to expectations. Players like him ...
England brace for Mendis challenge
cricinfo.com 9/24/2009 — England's batsmen will do exceptionally well to avoid the fate of other teams when playing Mendis for the first time
There’s a New Mendis in Town
spunout.wordpress.com 9/2/2009 — Poor Ajantha Mendis. Little more than a year ago he was the Next Big Thing, the Great White Hope, even the New Murali. Now, not only has he seemingly been usurped in the Sri Lankan pecking order of spinners by Rangana Herath , he may not even be the most prominent cricketing Mendis of the ...
Balance of talent
crucket.co.nz 8/8/2009 — You have to love the Otago Daily Times and their eternal optimism. From any number of press-conference sound bites, they chose ‘NZ has talent to win’ from Vettori as their headline.
It’s nice to believe that Vettori has faith in his players, but the quote the ODT article ...
We're confident but also wary of NZ - Sangakkara
cricinfo.com 9/1/2009 — Leading into the first of two Twenty20s at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, neither Kumar Sangakkara nor Daniel Vettori was overly concerned about their previous T20 encounter
Mendis and SL's entry to semis
armball.blogspot.com 6/16/2009 — Mendis is now having success against teams which havent played him before. Like Australia, New Zealend (3rd wkt now) or England (a hot favorite for 10-for). But teams who have repeatedly played him have figured him out. Dont agree ? Ask any Indian or a Pakistani :). They would agree here. ...
The shot stuff
cricinfo.com 6/16/2009 — Cricinfo presents the plays of the day from the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at Trent Bridge
Mohammad Yousuf is Special
wellpitched.com 7/5/2009 — Mohammad Yousuf continues to hit test hundreds, while Ajantha Mendis continues to fail against Pakistan. The best part about this was that Yousuf did not read Mendis at all during his knock of 114. Mendis turned the ball both ways and quite a bit too; all this while Yousuf was caught at sea ...
Images: Mendis bowls Sri Lanka into semis —
Rediff Cricket 6/16/2009
Ajantha Mendis spun a web around New Zealand as a clinical Sri Lanka stormed into the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup, thumping the Kiwis by 48 runs in a crucial Super Eight match in Nottingham on Tuesday.
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