Sri Lanka's tigers wins
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 opening match defeating giant South Africa. Tillakeratne Dilshan and Ajantha Mendis led Sri Lanka to a 55 run win over hosts South Africa as the opening match of the
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 was decided by the Duckworth-Lewis scoring method.
The 24 year old Mendis was playing against South Africa for the first time and frequently bamboozled the opposition batsmen in the Group B match.
Mendis claimed three crucial wickets to help his team and captain Kumar Sangakkara said the right arm spinner was one of the few bowlers which batsmen can never get enough of.
"One good thing about Ajantha is that even if you see him on and off in a couple of games but still it is a big challenge playing him," Sangakkara said.
The Lankan skipper believes his side has match winners in Ajantha, Muttiah Muralitharan and Lasith Malinga, whom he considers not a mystery but a little orthodox.
"Especially with him (Ajantha) and with Murali and Lasith in our side, there is a lot of unorthodox, mystery not as much, but unorthodox match-winners. So we have our bowling attack in place as long as we can back that up with good fielding and minimise extras," he said.
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