I think Indian batsmen should take very seriously about Ajanta Mendis bowling. He is proved deadly. Beteer to take advice from Indian great batsmen like Gavaskar, Viswanath and Vengsarkar. Once Brajesh Patel was known very good batsman against spin bowling. Word of advice from him to tackle Mendis also important.
RE:Tackling Ajanta Mendis
by True Indian on Aug 01, 2008 07:31 PM Permalink
Dude.. let it be simple. The kind of bowler Mendis is, even Sunil, Vengsarkar etc. would have been thrown apart. In their time, spinners were orthodox and predictable. Sachin and Dravid are great players of spin, much better than the experts you mention. They have played likes of Warne, Murli etc. Such deadly unpredictable bowlers never existed in history.
RE:Tackling Ajanta Mendis
by Global on Aug 01, 2008 08:31 PM Permalink
Yes,Sunny,Vishy and Vengy were great players of spin bowling and even Azharuddin & Siddhu were far superior to these morons.The problem is..these idiots have a king-size ego,so they will never learn anything from anybody.Regarding Patel,not 2 sure.Perhaps he was so bad playing the pacy stuff that he was considered to be a fine player of spin bowling in relative terms.
RE:Tackling Ajanta Mendis
by KSatish on Aug 01, 2008 07:11 PM Permalink
I dont think u need any more then what the Indian line have for theoritical knowledge to play spin. Tendi laxman sehwag are one of the greatest players of spin u can get anywhere. Ofcourse when u come across a freak bowler u might have to start form the scratch as to how to tackle him u might take any help u can. But even Kirsten being a great player of spin i think this is the case of some time to digest this new style of bowling before u come up with a solution. He took 8 in the first test and 6 in the first innings of the 2nd test. This guy is dangerous for anybody. But the world will sort him out at some stage. Am sure Sehwag is the first among them. And I can bet it will be long before u can see another batsmen read mendis like sehwag did and make a double. I mean even by the whole world. right now its a more a case of a freak bowler being handled by a freak batsmen.
RE:Tackling Ajanta Mendis
by mpc on Aug 01, 2008 07:56 PM Permalink
Good comments Satish...a departure from the common refrain accusing seniors. People forget that Sehwag is also among the veterans...
