Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Ajantha Mendis, who returned home on Friday said he somehow felt that he would win the International Cricket Council's(ICC) award for the emerging player of the year.
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is ODI player of the year DUBAI: Sri Lanka’s new spin sensation Ajantha Mendis was named as the International Cricket Council (ICC) emerging player of the year at an awards ceremony here on Wednesday. The 23-year-old burst onto the international scene this year by taking an extraordinary 26 wickets at an average of a mere 18.38 apiece in just three Tests with his unique brand of...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Sept 11, Colombo: Sri Lanka's spin sensation 23-year old Ajantha Mendis was named as the emerging player of the year at an awards ceremony held by International Cricket Council (ICC) in Dubai, on Wednesday.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Sri Lanka's 23-year-old spin sensation, Ajantha Mendis, has won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai.
Indy Handy (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The ICC 2008 Cricket Awards ceremony is underway at Dubai tonight. Here are the awards as they are declared: ODI Player of the Year - MS Dhoni (India) T20 International Performer of The Year - Yuvraj Singh (India) Emerging Player of the Year - Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka) Spirit of Cricket - Sri Lanka Umpire of the Year - Simon Taufel (Australia) Cricketer of the Year - ShivNarine Chanderpaul --Cine...
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Ajantha Mendis, the Sri Lankan spinner, has said he will need to find ways to beat the Indians after they managed to play him reasonably well during the recently-concluded one-day series. India won the series 3-2 and Mendis took 13 wickets at 11.69 but he said the Indians played him cautiously.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian captain, has said that Ajantha Mendis was an unusual bowler in comparison to Muttiah Muralitharan and that it's only a matter of time before batsmen are able to pick his variations easily.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Hardly 15 minutes after Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrived at the team hotel in Colombo with his fellow one-day recruits, had he faced a barrage of questions. No surprise that most of them focused around the man who snatched almost half of the Indian wickets in the Test series, Ajantha Mendis.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
With their backs firmly to the wall, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman played out the best part of the first session, but Ajantha Mendis broke through before any panic could set in. Muttiah Muralitharan made his presence felt shortly, trapping Anil Kumble to make the session Sri Lanka's.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Regardless of the outcome of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka and India, the astonishing bowling performances of Ajantha Mendis will no doubt go down as the highlight of the series and his meteoric rise and popularity has pleasantly surprised his captain Mahela Jayawardene.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Virender Sehwag hit a double century while Ajantha Mendis took six wickets to share the honours in the first session.
Someday I Will Treat You Good (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
The great thing about cricket is that even while your own team is falling apart something else is happening that’s too exciting to ignore. Apparently Ajantha Mendis is likely to be touring England next year with the Sri Lankans. Perhaps not the perfect set-up for the Ashes, but it’ll be fun to see. [...]
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Sri Lanka won the first Test in a little over three days and Mahela Jayawardene said he was surprised by the way India folded up. Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis shared 19 wickets between them as India slumped to an innings and 239-run defeat.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Sri Lanka's spin bowling sensation Ajantha Mendis will make his Test debut against India in Colombo on Wednesday.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
There are two distinct topics of conversation cutting through the humid Colombo air a day before the first Test - that of the to-be-trialled umpiring referral system, and Ajantha Mendis, the unorthodox spinner who has generated plenty of hype after his domination over India in the Asia Cup final earlier this month.
