The New Sensation....AJANTA MENDIS

Ajanta Mendis ( not Ajantha Mendis). Ajanta's full name is Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis. 23 year old Ajanta was born on 11th March 1985 in Moratuwa, SriLanka.
Apart from the National team of Sri Lanka, Ajanta has also played for Kolkatta Knight Riders in IPL Twenty20, Sri Lanka Army, Wayamba.
His Batting style is Right-hand bat and more importantly his Bowling style Right-arm slow-medium ( and this description hardly does justice to his bowling style).

Full name: Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis

Born: March 11, 1985, Moratuwa
Current age: 23 years 118 days
Major teams: Sri Lanka, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka Army, Wayamba
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm slow-medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	8	4	3	46	15*	46.00	29	158.62	0	0	6	0	1	0
First-class	19	30	0	387	37	12.90	644	60.09	0	0	37	3	9	0
List A	27	19	6	373	71*	28.69	372	100.26	0	2	36	7	5	0
Twenty20	7	6	2	15	9	3.75	21	71.42	0	0	2	0	3	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
ODIs	8	7	336	205	20	6/13	6/13	10.25	3.66	16.8	1	2	0
First-class	19	35	3654	1615	111	7/37	10/74	14.54	2.65	32.9	10	7	1
List A	27	24	1130	629	57	6/13	6/13	11.03	3.33	19.8	3	2	0
Twenty20	7	7	138	122	6	2/15	2/15	20.33	5.30	23.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

ODI debut

West Indies v Sri Lanka at Port of Spain, Apr 10, 2008

Although classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler, Ajantha Mendis is a spinner who bowls a mixture of googlies, offbreaks, top-spinners, flippers and legbreaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is.
Mendis was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches. His performances did not go unnoticed for Mendis was called up to the Sri Lanka squad for the tour of West Indies in April 2008.
After impressing on debut in the Caribbean, Mendis only grew in stature - in particular, because of his 'flicker', which he releases with an unusual snap of his fingers. In a short span Mendis has flummoxed some international batsmen who've played spin pretty well in their careers.
Just ask the Indians, who were clueless against him in the Asia Cup final, where Mendis netted 6 for 13 in his eighth one-day international. His 17 wickets in the tournament duly earned him the Man-of-the-Series award.



watch AJANTA MENDIS against the West Indies....