Swervy
International Captain
Duleep mendis...village green batsman who got lucky.....please, dont insult the likes of Atapattu,Jayasuriya,Jayawardene,sangakarra, they are all class batsmen.Sanz said:I have watched and followed Sri Lankan Cricket from the Duleep Mendis/Roy Dias days and based on that I can safely say that Sri Lankan batting team of 80s with Duleep Mendis, Roshan Mahanama, Gurusinghe, Ranatunga, Desilva, Dias was much better than the present lot of Attapattu, Jayasuriya, Jaywardne and Dilshan etc.
De Silva only got good later on.
Interesting fact: Sri Lanka 1985-1990 in tests averaged 26.9 runs per wicket when batting
Sri Lanka 1999-2004 in tests averaged 34.4 runs per wicket when batting
Anyway..this is well off topic....how can you basically say Warne didnt deserve his success in Sri lanka coz Sri Lanka have a bad batting team