Lasith Malinga's explosive return to the Test scene against India has cast aside whatever doubts there have been about his future as a frontline bowler for Sri Lanka.
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Lasith Malinga's explosive return to the Test scene against India has cast aside whatever doubts there have been about his future as a frontline bowler for Sri Lanka.
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It was Malinga, who had helped himself to a total of 64 in the Sri Lanka first innings of 520 for eight declared, collected two wickets in the first innings that caused India early problems. He collected the scalp of Gautam Gambhir twice in the match and set the trend that had India re-evaluating their strategy against his type of bowling.
"He (Malinga) is someone you need to study and educate yourself how to play him," said Mahendra Singh Dhoni. "His style of bowling, with the arm coming from behind his back is difficult to pick up and there are times when you lose sight of the ball.
"There is also the pace of his deliveries and the length he bowls," Dhoni added. "As we haven't faced him for sometime in a Test, it is a case of getting used to ufffd not only the speed at which he bowls ufffd but to counter the extra acceleration he bowls at. As can be seen by his two dismissals of Gambhir, he swings the ball away sharply."
Dhoni emphasised this with the comment on how it was the Malinga factor that created and added problems for India in their second innings.
"Whenever we had a partnership going, the Lankan bowlers came up with a beautiful delivery to get the batsman out. We were not really able to get the big partnerships going and Malinga played his part in this," he added.u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0
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