Ajantha Mendis

[tech.007]

Mendis is more of a psychological danger to batsmen because he is highly overrated.When he comes to bowl batsmen tend to get under a feeling of getting out..Simply different action does not mean you are talented.

 

[Howsie]

Mendis is more of a psychological danger to batsmen because he is highly overrated.When he comes to bowl batsmen tend to get under a feeling of getting out..Simply different action does not mean you are talented.

Overrated

:rtfl

I'm sorry but Mendis is a very good spinner.

 

[Shri]

Mendis is not over rated imo.

 

[Insomniac]

What's the pitch like, if he isn't getting any assistance then it's very unfair to judge him. If the ball was seaming around yesterday I can't imagine day two would favour the spinners much.

Difficult to bat on. Mendis had plenty of close shouts against Yousuf, but once Yousf got used to playing him, it was really no contest.

And at the moment, he does seem just a bit overrated

Lets let him bowl a little more against Pakistan and see how he goes. It could just be a bad day for him.

 

[Max Peters]

Well he had so many appeals against the Pakistani batsman that were very close. It just wasn't his day in the end.

 

[aussie1st]

He is going to have a field day when we finally play him in a Test match. Our batters were lost against him in T20 and I can't see much changing.

 

[Insomniac]

He is going to have a field day when we finally play him in a Test match. Our batters were lost against him in T20 and I can't see much changing.

Maybe you guys need lessons from us

 

[w3lshrugby]

Pakistan appear to have been the team to have played him best so far...but then again, he's only been an international player for a year - so give him time. He is good, certainly not over-rated and certainly not the finished article.

 

[sohum]

Also keep in mind that Mendis is not playing with Murali at the other end for what may be his first Test match (haven't checked it out). If anything, this shows how important having a spin duo is (or even a pace-spin duo like Warne-McGrath). The two complement each other perfectly.

 

[Aoun13]

Mendis has just one variety and that his carom ball,teams will start picking him as long as they play him after some time.He needs to develop his variety like Murli did.

 

[Howsie]

Mendis has just one variety and that his carom ball,teams will start picking him as long as they play him after some time.He needs to develop his variety like Murli did.

I remember reading something this year about Mendis working on three different varitions in the nets that he isn't confindent bowling in a game yet. Maybe we will see them sometime soon, you have to remember he is still pretty young for a spinner.

 

[sohum]

Mendis has just one variety and that his carom ball,teams will start picking him as long as they play him after some time.He needs to develop his variety like Murli did.

Mendis does not just have one variety. He bowls off breaks, leg breaks, off cutters, leg cutters, googlies as well as the carrom ball. The one variation missing from his repertoire is the doosra. Then again, when you have so many variations, its hard to choose what to bowl when, and as a batsmen you stop thinking about most of the variations and concentrate on the hardest one (the carrom ball). Mendis' first wicket in the 2nd innings of the first test match against Pakistan was picked up by a conventional leg break, IIRC.

 

[Adarsh]

Mendis does not have all that. He's a very good bowler no doubt but he has not more than three variations which are the carrom ball, googly and his off spinner. That's it. The wicket he got against pakistan was a googly which the guy managed to nick to first slip.

 

[SciD]

Mendis needs Yuvraj to make him look good.

 

[age of the fall]

Mendis does not just have one variety. He bowls off breaks, leg breaks, off cutters, leg cutters, googlies as well as the carrom ball.

Just out of curiousity, what's the difference between a leg break and a leg cut? I'm guessing a leg cut spin more?


Sorry if it's obvious.