India suffering from MENDISOPHOBIA!!!

The 23-year-old army officer badly bruised India's batting pride during his team's 2-1 victory in the series that ended here on Monday, capturing 26 wickets.He destroyed India in the first match he played against them, grabbing six wickets for just 13 runs in a magical spell to fire his team to an emphatic victory in the Asia Cup final in Karachi last month.Mendis is not a big turner of the ball like retired Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne or Muralitharan, but the key to his success is the way he grips the ball with his fingers and flicks it to bowl a variety of deliveries.
Tendulkar, who was 172 short of breaking retired West Indies captain Brian Lara's world record of 11,953 Test runs before the series, could manage just 95 in six innings without a half-century.Mendis, although classified as slow-medium, bowls a mixture of deliveries, including googlies, off-breaks top-spinners, flippers and leg-breaks, as well as a Carrom Ball, released with a flick of his middle finger.MOST POPULARLY KNOWN AS CARROM BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mendis is unusual, freaky and has developed a ball which could be described as a 'flicker' [Carrom Ball], which he releases with a snap of his fingers, which is very unusual compared to other orthodox spin bowlers.

Mendis is the author of a new delivery - the Carrom Ball. Since the Doosra, the Carrom Ball is the latest addition to the cricket lexicon.

To bowl a Carrom Ball in cricket, the ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out/ flicked by the fingers like a Carrom player flicking the disc on a Carrom Board. It could result in an off-break, a leg-break, a googly or even a zooter.

CARROM BALL

The Carrom Ball is the name for a type of bowling delivery used in cricket. It is named because the ball is released by flicking the ball between the thumb and a bent middle finger in order to impart spin on the ball.

The delivery was invented by Jack Iverson of Australia and continued by John Gleeson, also of Australia. However it has re-entered the cricketing consciousness after its use by Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka.

Although the Carrom Ball can be made to either turn away or into a right-handed batsman, Mendis uses it to turn away from a right handed batsman, in order to contrast it with his off-breaks and googlies. The Australian test cricketer and coach Peter Philpott actually predicted the rise of a bowler such as Mendis in a book written in 1973.
Mendis has been phenomenally successful, with 26 wickets in three Tests and 27 in 11 ODIs to date, and the carrom-ball is an important weapon in his armoury.Notable among his many carrom-ball victims has been VVS Laxman, lbw in the second innings of the second Test, and then stumped in the first innings of the third.
Born on March 11, 1985, Mendis hails from a hamlet in Moratuwa.

following basic training he played for the army team and saw active military service as a Gunner in the Sri Lanka Artillery, a regiment of the Sri Lanka Army. Following the Asia Cup final, he has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant on the 7 July 2008 and the next day again to Second Lieutenant.