Can mendis be da next top spinner in da world??

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If he can get perform against top team like australia then he can be
but have to play at least 10 year
he has good opportunity to show what he got when champion trophy start
 

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    asanka_lahiru said:
    If he can demolish indian players y nt others? besides indian team is da only team in da world who can play spinners well

    what ?????????? total crap

    Australia has played spinners better than any country.. Murali has never preformed well against the Aussies.. He gets smashed every time he plays against Aussies..

    Mendis will always be judged on how well he'll bowl against the Aussies
     

    asanka_lahiru

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    hey mr.earthing..i think u got dat 1 wrong my friend..cos india is da only team in da world who can play spinners better in an any given pitch nt lik Aussies...who always relay on fast tracks...bcos f da fast bowlers they have always come out f da trouble..i dnt think u r so much into cricket...i mean if u r den hw cum u miss Sir Viv Richardson sayin dat da india is da only team in da world who can play spinners better dan any other team in da world..n nt onl him but also so many other great people..

    N abt wat u said on Murali's performance against Aussies..

    mind u he only played 4 test matches in Aussy against ausssies..so hw can u ask a bowler 2 tak so many wickets my friend..cos at da end f day he is nly a human.. besides v always play lik 1 practice match in Aussy b4 da big game..+ he performed well against Aussies out side da Aussy... records say dat..

    n now let me compare both Murali n Warne against india in india

    Warne, the greatest legspinner in the history of the game, averaged some 47 runs per wicket against India, and like Underwood managed five wickets in an innings once.

    There was something purposeful about the way in which Indian batsmen set about spinners. I remember Tendulkar going after Warne in a first-class game in Mumbai in 1998-99, when the legspinner arrived, riding the crest of his reputation as the greatest spinner in the world. Tendulkar hit a double century, and Warne went for more than 100 for no wickets. Then Navjot Singh Sidhu decided Warne had to go in the Test series, and we were treated to the rare spectacle of convergence in cricket: a spinner walking up to the stumps to bowl and a batsman running down the wicket to hit him. VVS Laxman and Tendulkar, in the 2001-02 home series, nearly ended Warne's career; by the time India won the last Test in Chennai, Warne was reduced to bowling bouncers.

    Murali has a better record against India than Warne: 88 wickets at a little over 30 runs per wicket, and more significantly he has bagged six five-fors. I remember a sensational spell of bowling by Murali at the Feroz Shah Kotla, where he went round the wicket, and for half an hour had the Indians groping as his doosras spat off the pitch and jagged away and his offspinners straightened. But for all his genius, Murali was never feared by Indian batsmen in the way that men like Fred Trueman, Wes Hall, Alan Donald and Glenn McGrath were.

    In da last paragraph last sentence says dat india was never feared by Murali in the way like Fred Trueman, Wes Hall, Alan Donald and Glenn McGrath were...so it's all clear dat india lost so many games 2 Aussies bcos f their great fast bowlers..NT BCOS OF WARNE..all da people talk abt murali taking lot f wickets dan warne bocs he was never supported by gud bowlers..BUT LET ME TELL SUMTHNG..IF THERE WAS NO GOOD FAST BOWLERS IN AUSSIE HE WOULD NEVER BE A GOOD BOWLER Y?? BCOS THERE WERE GUD FAST BOWLERS WHO SUPPORTED HIM..DAN IN MURALI'S CASE..nw bcos f mendis murali got his 2nd 10 wickets haul against india..so it's proven dat wid 1 better bowler operating 4rm da other side it is always easy 2 get wickets 4 liks f murali n warne.. murali got his partner in da last stage f his career whereas warne had nt 1 but few through out his career..
     
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    asanka_lahiru said:
    If he can demolish indian players y nt others? besides indian team is da only team in da world who can play spinners well

    r u sure? wot abt the Aussies? didnt u see how they tortured Murali in d WC final?
    i hav 2 disagree wid u man. If Mendis is a real winner he'll prove so in the ICC champions trophy. good luck 2 mendiz!:)
     

    Thilinacba

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    Eranda200 said:
    r u sure? wot abt the Aussies? didnt u see how they tortured Murali in d WC final?
    i hav 2 disagree wid u man. If Mendis is a real winner he'll prove so in the ICC champions trophy. good luck 2 mendiz!:)
    indians r far more better than aussies when playing spinners.....actually indians r the best team when playing spinners mate

    so others r going down playing mendis:growl:
     

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    Being from India and from the same city where the Prince of Kolkata hails I would say Mendis is the biggest surprise for us. As most of you have agreed Indians are the best players of spin and most of them struggled to read him during the Tests and the saga continues in the one dayers too. For me the Sri Lankan cricketers have always been my favorite like Sanath, Murali, Vaas and earlier Ranatunga, Aravinda. I would definitely like to see Mendis being the next big name after Murali and he has the resources to succeed add to that he is so young he has so much time to learn. With the mentors like Murali with him he would sure prosper to a greater cricketer over the years. I wish him success for his future games too.
     

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    Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
    Tests 3 6 979 478 26 6/117 10/209 18.38 2.92 37.6 3 2 1
    ODIs 10 9 450 248 25 6/13 6/13 9.92 3.30 18.0 1 2 0
    First-class 22 41 4633 2093 137 7/37 10/74 15.27 2.71 33.8 13 9 2
    List A 29 26 1244 672 62 6/13 6/13 10.83 3.24 20.0 3 2 0
    Twenty20 7 7 138 122 6 2/15 2/15 20.33 5.30 23.0 0 0 0
     

    Y2K

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    well 10 ODI Matches 25 wickets ..... if he play 200 matches he will get at least 400 ODI wickets

    As far as Test Matches are concern ....

    he has pick 25 wicket from just representing 3 Test matches ... this won't happen again more frequently batsmen will get used to it but he has many kind of deliveries I guess if he play 100 Test matches we will probably gets 450 wickets