Sri Lanka Kamindu Mendis Test Career: Sri Lankan all-rounder Kamindu Mendis is not ready to stop anyone. He made his Test cricket debut in the year 2022, but in 2024 he has wreaked havoc especially in batting. In the second Test match between Sri Lanka and England being played at Lord’s, Sri Lanka’s first innings may have been reduced to 196 runs, but Mendis proved to be the highest run scorer for his team.
Kamindu Mendis scored a total of 74 runs while batting at number seven in the first innings of the second Test. This is the third half-century innings of his career. Mendis has batted in only 8 innings in his Test career so far, in which he has scored 3 centuries and 3 fifties. Talking about the current Test series against England, he has scored a century and a fifty in three innings. He played a brilliant century of 113 runs in the second innings of the first Test.
Don Bradman holds the record for scoring runs at the highest average in the history of Test cricket. He scored runs at an average of 99.94 in his career. Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis’s average had reached over 102 during the eighth innings of his Test career. But after getting out at 74 runs in the first innings of the second Test, his average has dropped to 89.57. The way he is batting is proving him to be the best Test batsman of the present times.
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Kamindu Mendis has played 5 Test matches for Sri Lanka so far, in which he has scored 627 runs in 8 innings. His average is 89.57 and if his good batting continues, he can definitely come closer to Don Bradman. Apart from this, he has scored 190 runs in 9 ODIs and 280 runs in 16 T20 matches.
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