Cricket

Mendis has made a great start: Murali

World’s highest Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan has said that his young teammate Ajantha Mendis’ start to his Test career is better than that of his own and Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne’s had been.

“Ajantha Mendis was once again exceptional and fully deserved his first five-wicket haul in Tests. It took a while for me and Shane Warne to influence a Test match like he is doing already. He has claimed 14 Test wickets and we are only mid-way through his second Test. That is a special start by anyone’s standards,” Murali wrote in one of his columns on Saturday.

“All this he has done when the pitch was considered good for batting on the first day. The amount of turn was modest and the pitch was slow, but he was always threatening with his variations and he did not wilt in the face of Virender Sehwag’s positive stroke play,” he adds.

Tags: ajantha mendis, Idea Cup 2008, India, muralitharan, sri lanka