Lasith Malinga

Lasith Malinga brilliant cricketer with unique bowling style

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Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan fast bowler with unique bowling style but very affective and useful in all formats of International cricket. He took 6 wickets in his opening match against Australia and thus becomes the regular member of Sri Lankan cricket team. He achieved some excellent records in international cricket for Sri Lanka. He is the only bowler who takes two hat tricks in ICC World Cups and takes 4 wickets on 4 balls.

Lasith Malinga’s 4 wickets in 4 balls video

Lasith Malinga’s Hat Trick in ICC World Cup 2007 video

He is the leading wicket taker in Indian Premier League 2011 season with 27 wickets and played an important role in the success of Mumbai Indians. He is having a knee injury because of which he announced retirement form test cricket but said he will continue to play One Day Internationals and T20 matches. Despite of the fact that some critics says his bowling action is seem as he is throwing the ball but officially he is never reported by any match official and did not comes under scrutiny from International cricket council.

What is the height of Lasith Malinga?

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:41:20 +0000

The height of Lasith Malinga is 5 ft 7 in. Lasith Malinga is fast bowler and Sri Lankan cricketer. He first appeared on the scene in 2003 and after that becomes a regular member of Sri Lankan cricket team. His unique and unusual bowling action makes him different from others and this also creates difficulties for batsmen. He is known for deadliest Yorkers which is nearly impossible to pick from that unorthodox bowling action. Height is the essential factor for any fast bowler but in his case he covered it well because in his slinging bowling action he did not need very big height.

Lasith Malinga and Sachin Tendulkar discussing bowling strategy during the game and in this picture you can also compare the height of two super stars.

He made some unique world records in international cricket and most famous is 4 wickets on 4 balls that no one else achieved in the history of international cricket. He is also the only bowler who made two hat tricks in two different world cups. He is the leading wicket taker in Indian Premier League 2011 session while playing from Mumbai Indians. He retired from test cricket on 22 April, 2011 because of his knee injury and say now he only play One Day Internationals and T20 cricket.

Lasith Malinga’s 4 wickets in 4 balls

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:36:26 +0000

Lasith Malinga is a slinging action fast bowler and Sri Lankan cricketer. He starts playing for Sri Lanka in 2004 and after that he becomes the backbone of Sri Lankan bowling lineup. Sri Lanka needs a fast bowler who can lead the bowling attack after the retirement of Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga perfectly fulfill that position. His unique bowling action made it nearly impossible for batsmen to score run against his bowling on fast pace. While playing for Sri Lanka he also made different and some unique World records. He is the only fast bowler who takes two hat tricks in the world cups (in 2007 & 20011). He is the fastest bowler who played for Sri Lanka and second fastest of the world. He is the only bowler who took 4 wickets on 4 balls in international cricket.

Lasith Malinga’s 4 wickets in 4 balls video

Currently, he is playing for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League and in IPL he is the leading wicket taker with 27 wickets in 2011 session. The captain of Mumbai Indian Sachin Tendulkar said in an interview Lasith Malinga played a key role in the excellent performance of Mumbai Indian in IPL. Malinga announced his retirement from test cricket on 22 April, 2011 but said he will continue playing One Day Internationals and T20 cricket.

Lasith Malinga on Wikipedia

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:16:07 +0000

Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan cricketer and fast bowler. He is known for unique bowling style that creates problem for many batsmen around the World. He starts his International career in 2004 against Australia and in his opening match he takes 6 wickets. After that he becomes a regular member of Sri Lankan cricket team. Wikipedia very deeply analysis all the aspects of malinga’s cricketing career that played an important role in his success as a fast bowler. They briefly explain its early days and explain where he grown up, get his education and when he starts playing cricket.

The records of test matches as well as One Day Internationals are also present with detail. His bowling action is called a slinging bowling action and Malinga says that is because he starts his cricket with tennis ball. His action is unique but never been reported by any ICC match officials for throwing. He played for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League and played a very important role in the success of his team in 2009/2010 session. In the 2011 session he is the leading wicket taker with 27 wickets. In this session against Mumbai Indians he took 5 wickets for just 13 runs which helped to restrict Delhi Daredevils at the total of 95. He announced his retirement from test cricket on 22 April, 2011 and said he will only play One Day Internationals and T20 matches because of his knee injury.

Lasith Malinga in IPL

admin — Sat, 21 May 2011 06:54:05 +0000

Lasith Malinga is a slinging action fast bowler of Sri Lanka who played for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League. Along with his action he also has a deadliest York that can knock out best batsmen of World cricket. In Indian Premier League Malinga is a highest wicket taker and played an important role in the winning of IPL 2010 session for Mumbai Indians. In IPL he takes 61 wickets in 38 matches with an average of 16.16 and his best bowling performance was 5 wickets for 13 runs against Delhi Daredevils in 2011 session and he is also the highest wicket taker with 27 wickets in 2011 session.

His performance in IPL can be judge by this the second highest wicket taker just got 17 wickets. This show how deadliest he proves to be for other teams in IPL. Because of his performance Mumbai Indian is still up on the table and hopeful to get a place in the semi final of IPL 2011 session. Sachin Tendulkar captain of Mumbai Indian at different times praise Lasith Malinga for his bowling and every time during the crucial periods of the match turn towards him for help even though bowler like Harbhajan Singh is also in the team. This showed the confidence that master blaster has on his premium attack bowler Malinga.

Lasith Malinga Top Photos

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Lasith Malinga celebrates after claiming a hat trick in ICC World Cup 2011 against Kenya and becomes the only bowler in World Cup history who done hat trick twice.

Lasith Malinga, Muralitharan, Fernando and Mendis sitting in the balcony

Lasith Malinga and other members of Sri Lankan cricket team returned home after losing the final on ICC World Cup 2011 from India.

Lasith Malinga celebrates after taking wicket of David Warner in IPL

Lasith Malinga taking a catch in his bowling follows through

Lasith Malinga with his captain Sachin Tendulkar of Mumbai Indians in IPL

Lasith Malinga’s actions while delivering a ball

Lasith Malinga at Press conference

Lasith Malinga after taking 6 wickets

Lasith Malinga after getting the wicket of Kumar Sangakara

Lasith Malinga Wedding Photos with Wife

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Lasith Malinga Biography

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Lasith Malinga was the astonish choice for Sri Lanka’s tour to Australia in 2004, although he had a formidable character on the domestic route. Malinga bowls with an idiosyncratic and likely to explode round-arm action which engenders unadulterated swiftness and can disappoint batsmen who move violently to spontaneous the ball’s path. Before now, he is ranked as the fastest bowler in Sri Lanka. The first performance he gave in Sri Lankan colours was also remarkable – he took 6 for 90 in opposition to a Northern Territory Chief Minister’s XI. That cemented the way for his enclosure in the Test team, and he found not guilty himself to a certain extent well too, discharging Darren Lehmann and Adam Gilchrist in the same over. During a remarkable tour of New Zealand in April 2005 his low-chucked action resulted in the New Zealand batsmen asking the umpire to revolutionize the color of their trousers as the ball was getting lost. He is mounting hooked on Sri Lanka’s key swiftness-bowling wicket-taker, particularly as Chaminda Vaas keeps on to be unable to find velocity. Even though he leftovers to a certain extent unpredictable and has a inclination to bowl no-balls, he is a indisputable strike bowler, with both new ball and old, and one has the out-and-out velocity to nuisance the most excellent batsmen on his day.

His improvement as an all-round bowler was definite at what time he was the leading wicket-taker in the one-day series in opposition to England. He persistent to astonish in the Champions Trophy and on tour in New Zealand – where his Yorkers made several batsmen bound around.

In 2007 World Cup he recognized himself as a standard in the playing XI later than an extraordinary, with 18 wickets at 15.77 from eight matches as Sri Lanka made it to the final. One of the moments of the tournament was Malinga’s four in four in opposition to South Africa – the first time a bowler had taken four wickets off consecutive deliveries in international cricket. On the other hand, Malinga was for the most part unproductive for the duration of Sri Lanka’s two Tests in Australia and the subsequent home series in opposition to England.