mackembhoy
International Regular
Even more impressive considering a lot of them knocks come batting 7/8 with the tail.
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*Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka
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anonymouskefe
School Boy/Girl Captain
Exactly my point he should be at 6. 7 for me is to low
Silver Silva
International Regular
Fastest to 5 Test hundreds :
1.Everton Weekes - 10 innings
2.Neil Harvey & Herbert Sutcliffe - 12 innings
3.Sir Don Bradman and Kamindu Mendis - 13 innings
Some great company Kamindu has there. !
1.Everton Weekes - 10 innings
2.Neil Harvey & Herbert Sutcliffe - 12 innings
3.Sir Don Bradman and Kamindu Mendis - 13 innings
Some great company Kamindu has there. !
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
If Kamindu gets to 178 in this innings he'll reach 1,000 test runs in his 13th test innings which would equal Bradman and be just 1 innings behind Sutcliffe and Weekes.
Silver Silva
International Regular
Nobody in SL Test history has had this kind of start ..
To give an indication,
the fastest Sri Lankan batsmen to 1000 Test runs was Roy Dias in 1985 and it took him 23 innings ..
Kamindu is on 900+ after 13 innings
Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
Just wanted to post my appreciation again. Feel pleased that I got to watch him bat for a couple of hours at the Oval. I can't claim to be any technical batting guru, but I could tell by watching him then that he had so much time at the crease, regardless of the bowling.
mackembhoy
International Regular
Yet his write up on Cricinfo is mainly about his bowling ability
That surely will have to change soon. Although from this write up, why doesn't he bowl?
"Though foremost a batsman who scores heavily square of the wicket, it is for his unique skill set with the ball that Kamindu Mendis had gained an international reputation long before he entered a national squad. He bowls finger spin with both arms, and does it with skill and accuracy - his offbreaks not quite as good as his left-arm orthodox, but not far off. Understandably, his potential has impressed coaches. In the age of T20, a bowler who can spin it away from both right and left-handers, not to mention employ different lines of attack to the same batsman, could potentially have team owners and data analysts drooling, so long as Kamindu continues to develop those skills.
A product of Galle's Richmond College, Mendis made his under-19 Sri Lanka debut shortly before his 16th birthday, and would go on to captain the under-19 side in the 2018 World Cup. In October of that year, he was picked in a Sri Lanka senior side for the first time, for the one-off T20 against England. A half-century in the practice match before that England tour had helped him secure a place."
Silver Silva
International Regular
Steve Smith legspinner vibes lolYet his write up on Cricinfo is mainly about his bowling ability
That surely will have to change soon. Although from this write up, why doesn't he bowl?
"Though foremost a batsman who scores heavily square of the wicket, it is for his unique skill set with the ball that Kamindu Mendis had gained an international reputation long before he entered a national squad. He bowls finger spin with both arms, and does it with skill and accuracy - his offbreaks not quite as good as his left-arm orthodox, but not far off. Understandably, his potential has impressed coaches. In the age of T20, a bowler who can spin it away from both right and left-handers, not to mention employ different lines of attack to the same batsman, could potentially have team owners and data analysts drooling, so long as Kamindu continues to develop those skills.
A product of Galle's Richmond College, Mendis made his under-19 Sri Lanka debut shortly before his 16th birthday, and would go on to captain the under-19 side in the 2018 World Cup. In October of that year, he was picked in a Sri Lanka senior side for the first time, for the one-off T20 against England. A half-century in the practice match before that England tour had helped him secure a place."
Silver Silva
International Regular
Aim is to win the series, I wouldn't declare on NZ ,got to make your side feel that they have nowhere to go , wear you out as much as possible and see if you can survive if winning is not a possibility. That's usually the way teams crumble at Galle.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Blundell is now 34. Hopefully both Mitch Hay and Max Chu play the T20s and ODIs this summer and there is real competition for the test job.
Bahseph
International Debutant
I think being ambidextrous and okay enough to bowl both styles at pro level is a neat party trick. Just so happens that all it is is a party trick and his true value is that he is a damn good batsman. He isn't even on the level of DDS as a bowler from what I've seen.
slcricfan1
Cricket Spectator
Yet his write up on Cricinfo is mainly about his bowling ability
That surely will have to change soon. Although from this write up, why doesn't he bowl?
"Though foremost a batsman who scores heavily square of the wicket, it is for his unique skill set with the ball that Kamindu Mendis had gained an international reputation long before he entered a national squad. He bowls finger spin with both arms, and does it with skill and accuracy - his offbreaks not quite as good as his left-arm orthodox, but not far off. Understandably, his potential has impressed coaches. In the age of T20, a bowler who can spin it away from both right and left-handers, not to mention employ different lines of attack to the same batsman, could potentially have team owners and data analysts drooling, so long as Kamindu continues to develop those skills.
A product of Galle's Richmond College, Mendis made his under-19 Sri Lanka debut shortly before his 16th birthday, and would go on to captain the under-19 side in the 2018 World Cup. In October of that year, he was picked in a Sri Lanka senior side for the first time, for the one-off T20 against England. A half-century in the practice match before that England tour had helped him secure a place."
DDS does the job as the batting all rounder
OverratedSanity
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Well,there's no need to be rude
Howe_zat
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I think all the earliest posts about him on CW are about his quirk bowling too. It probably was the most interesting thing about him before he became a high-performing domestic bat a few years ago. If the cricinfo profile was last written in 2020 or earlier that's probably what I'd write about
It's really hard to fathom why. He's 34, which is reasonably old, but he didn't play for NZ until he was 27, doesn't play franchise cricket, and so on. But the decline from the 90 at home to England two summers ago has been outrageous bad. Averaging 12 in 16 innings.