Cricket

Kapil says Mendis is overhyped

Legendary Kapil Dev on Thursday praised Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis for his splendid show against India so far but felt it was all being over-hyped.

“No doubt that Mendis’ performance in the on-going India-Sri Lanka series is very good but media has highlighted him a bit too prominently. It is too early to say if he will continue to perform like this for long,” said Kapil attending a function.

“So far Mendis has done extraordinary well and launched his cricket carrier in a marvellous way, but Indian batsmen are capable enough to tackle his bowling.”

Kapil also congratulated Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Kumar and Sushil Kumar for winning Olympic medals and said now people and government would think of other sports as well.

“Government should concentrate to all sports if India likes to improve its tally in the medal list of Olympic,” he said.

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