Ajantha Mendis Biography and Career
Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslow Mendis popularly known as Ajantha Mendis. He is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played for Sri Lankan national cricket team in all three formats. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, games and family of Ajantha Mendis so read the article till the end.
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Career
Ajantha Mendis is an international cricketer and he played so many games for his country, state and clubs this biography article is incomplete without talking about his career. So here you will gain info about his achievements and life story.
In the year 2008 at Port of Spain Mendis made his One Day International debut against the West Indies. Also, in the Indian Premier League he played for the Kolkata Knight Riders. In this He holds the record for the quickest for 50 wickets in ODIs in 19 matches.
On 23 July 2008 he played his first Test Match against India at Colombo in which he makes the match figures of 8–132. After that match he becom the first Sri Lankan bowler to get an eight-wicket on test match debut.
Until record broken by Deepak Chahar in 2019 in a T20I against Bangladesh, he was the only bowler who have taken six wickets in a 20-20 International and he has achieved the feat twice, claiming the world record figures of 6 wickets for 8 runs for Sri Lanka against Zimbabwe on 18 September 2012.
During 2003/2004 he was also invited by the sri Lanka army as one of the army officer watching his game while he was playing against army team. After that he accepted that proposal joined training and then join the sri lanka artillery as a gunner. On 7th July 2008 after returning from the match of asia cup final he has been promoted to sergent and then after promoted as second lieutenant.
Short biography of Ajantha Mendis
He was born on 11 March 1985 at Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Currently he is 37 years old. Due to the unusual bowling action variations, he is also known as the “mystery spinner”.
He born in a family of five where he has an elder brother and a sister, He is the third child of his parents and youngest among their siblings. He was born and brought up in a Catholic family.
He completed his basic education at St Anthony’s College at Kadalana which is in his village, where there were no facilities are present for sports at that time. In the year of 2000, he entered in Moratuwa Maha Vidyalaya for further studies. At the age of 13 in the year 1998 during a cricket coaching class, by the school coach named Mr Lucky Rogers his talents were identified.
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Random biography facts about Ajantha Mendis
In September 2008 Mendis won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony which was held in Dubai. On 26 October 2012, Ajantha Mendis honoured by the Sri Lankan order of Bantu, this is the highest civilian honour in Sri Lanka.
Why Ajantha Mendis retired?
In August 2019, he took retirement from all forms of cricket because he is injured from last five years and due to this injury, he was not giving there better performance in matches.
We hope this biography article of Ajantha Mendis will be helpful for you to understand his journey and works.
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