Full name Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis
Born March 11, 1985, Moratuwa
Current age 23 years 117 days
Major teamsSri Lanka,Kolkata Knight Riders,Sri Lanka Army,Wayamba
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm slow-medium
Mendis is the author of a new delivery – the Carrom Ball. Since the Doosra, the Carrom Ball is the latest addition to the cricket lexicon.To bowl a “carrom ball” in cricket, the ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out/ flicked by the fingers like a Carrom player flicking the disc on a Carrom Board. It could result in an off-break, a leg-break, a googly or even a zooter. The veteran West Indies cricket writer Tony Becca wrote in the Jamaica Gleaner: “Mendis bowls everything. With a smile on his face as he caresses the ball before delivering it, he bowls the offbreak, he bowls the legbreak, he bowls the googly, he bowls the flipper, he bowls a straight delivery, he bowls them with different grips and different actions, he bowls them with a different trajectory and at a different pace, and he disguises them brilliantly. The result is that he mesmerises, or bamboozles, batsmen .the Sri Lanka Cricket Academy coach, said: “Mendis is unusual, freaky and has developed a ball which could be described as a ‘flicker’, which he releases with a snap of his fingers, which is very unusual compared to other orthodox spin bowlers.”That ball is reminiscent of the former Australia spinner Johnny Gleeson, who had a similar delivery
The Carrom Ball | Ajantha Mendis Vs Rohit Sharma 2008
Ajantha Mendis the new spin sensation from Sri Lankan Cricket is tying batsman in knots with his spin variations and his dreaded “carrom ball”. Here is how you can learn to bowl the carrom bowl like Ajantha Mendis. Once you learn the basic concept you can create many spin variations.
source- Wikipedia
