Ajantha Mendis,the Sri Lankan Kumble

Pride of Sri Lanka Army ! Ajantha Mendis the Man of the match and the Man of the series of Asian Cricket Cup -2008
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Ajantha Mendis is Sri Lankan cricket 's new " Kumble "

Ajantha Mendis has suddenly burst into the world cricket scene through his mesmerizing display of spin bowlers against the Indian cricket team. Ajantha Mendis is however more similar to Anil Kumble than his idol, Muthiah Muralitharan

Ajantha Mendis is not a typical spinner like Muralitharan or Shane Warne but relies on his incredible accuracy to always be a threat to a batsman, irrespective of whether the batsman is batting on 0 or on 176.

Like Anil Kumble, Ajantha Mendis relies on his subtle changes of pace, direction and length to fox the batsmen

Ajantha Mendis ' real challenge is test cricket matches

There are huge expectations from Ajantha Mendis among Sri Lankan cricket fans and cricket enthusiasts such as myself. Its only once in a generation that a classy spinner emerges

Recently, there have been fears that there wouldnt be any near term replacements to Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble

If Ajantha Mendis does well in this test cricket series against the touring Indian cricketers, his future is almost assured, since the Indian cricketers are reputed to be such great players of spin bowling

Ajantha Mendis has a real challenge in the current test cricket series against the visiting Indian cricket team, but he seems to have the talent to justify his top billing

Did Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar take drugs?

Did Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar take drugs?

Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar will not play the cricket World cup,2007.The official Pakistan board alibi is that Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar are injured and cannot make it to the cricket World cup

Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar injured at the same time?

Talk about coincidence!The Pakistan cricket board claim that Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar are injured and cannot play a single match of the cricket World cup

When players like Oram talk about amputating their finger in order to play the cricket World cup, the excuse of Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar seems pretty lame

Akhtar and Asif-How widespread is drug taking by international cricketers like Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif?

We are not naive enough to pretend that Akhtar and Asif are the only drug takers- Cricket is definitely another endurance sport that probably has quite a few international sportsmen to enhance performance,but cricket authorities such as the ICC do not seem to be seriously looking at curbing this drug taking menace.
Every World cup,a popular cricketer is made a scapegoat,last time it was Shane Warne and this time its the turn of Mohammed Asif and Shoaib Akhtar

What about the matching fixing practice?.. Well, the ICC is not taking this menace seriously either

Was Shane Warne the greatest legspinner ever?

Was Shane Warne the great legspinner to have played cricket

Shane Warne was undoubtedly a great legspinner but was he the greatest? Certainly, a lot of young Australians do think that Shane Warne was the best legspinner ever,but older Australian cricket fans do think that Richie Benaud may have been a better legspinner

Some think Shane Warne was not as good as Chandrasekhar of the India cricket team

Chandra or Chandrasekhar evoked as much respect as Shane Warne among the opposing batsmen. To compare Shane Warne and Chandra is obviously unfair,given that the two bowlers were so different.Shane Warne was a traditionally legspinner who liked to give the ball a lot of air while Chandra was almost a fast bowler and tended to skid the ball through.Viv Richards among other great cricketers respected the leg spin bowling of Chandra to a great extent

Was Shane Warne better than Abdul Qadir of the Pakistan cricket team

Abdul Qadir was undoubtedly responsible for the revival of traditional leg spin bowling in the subcontinent and his google was incredible,but it is debatable whether he was as good as Shane Warne

Shane Warne was definitely the greatest legspinner in his time

In summary,Shane Warne was of course the greatest legspinner among his contemporaries,and cricket statistics do not lie, but there were other great legspinners prior to Shane Warne's time who were really great too!

Sachin Tendulkar Vs Shane Warne- Good old Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar Vs Shane Warne-will we see the good ol' Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar takes on the West Indies tomorrow in another one day international cricket match

Will we ever see the great Sachin Tendulkar at his best again?

The cricket purist in me screams that Sachin Tendulkar will be back for the Indian cricket team,just as Jayasurya came back to blast bowling attacks again- You just cannot keep a talent like Sachin Tendulkar away

Here is a short clip of Sachin Tendulkar at his peak- taking on the world's greatest legspinner ever,Shane Warne

Sachin Tendulkar at his best is truly incredible

Shane Warne to Mike Gatting Video-Tribute to Warne

Shane Warne to Mike Gatting Video- The greatest ball in test cricket?

A tribute to Shane Warne who is retiring from Test cricket after the Sydney test against the England cricket team in the last Ashes test.

Shane Warne bowled this ball to Gatting - which has amazed all fans of test cricket over the years. Mike Gatting was really one of the better players of spin bowling in the world- Gatting had tamed the Indian leg spinner L.Sivaramakrishnan to hand England a series win against India.

This ball from Shane Warne had Gatting dumbfounded -Was it possible to bowl such a perfect ball in test cricket?

Shane Warne has had the demoralized England cricket team for lunch in Ashes

Shane Warne put the demoralized England cricket team for the Ashes cricket series out of their agony by quickly grabbing five wickets and getting the England cricket team all out for 159 in the fourth England Vs Australia Ashes cricket test.

Shane Warne really did not have to do much, the England cricket team succumbed to some rather inept batting. The England batsman treated Shane Warne long hops like hot potatoes and tried their best to celebrate Shane Warne's 700 test match wickets by offering him an easy five wicket haul

Shane Warne is of course one of the greatest bowlers in test match cricket - but the one thing that the England batsmen need to learn is that the only way to win test matches is to not respect reputations and have an attitude that they are the best players in thet cricketing world. The one team that does this well in the New Zealand cricket team which does not have any world beaters and a limited player pool but still manage to cause significant upsets in world cricket due to their great attitude

Anyways, a salute to Shane Warne on his 700th test cricket wicket!