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- Updated: May 24, 2016
There was no long apprenticeship at the fringes of the Test side for Kusal Mendis. There were no tours with the A team, or leadership positions in his club side. But such opportunities as have been thrown his way have been seized, and now, he has his first Test fifty. In five innings in England so far – including in the two warm-up matches – Mendis has hit three half-centuries. None of his team-mates have managed more than one.
It is his first trip to England with a Sri Lanka outfit, but not his first experience of cricket in the country. In 2014, when he was fresh out of school, he played for Southgate in the Middlesex leagues. That experience has done him good, Mendis said.
“I got a lot of good experience from coming here for four months, partly because I was on my own,” he said. “I learned a lot about how to adjust to conditions and how to deal with that initial disappointment of not knowing them very well. And also about how to play when it’s cold. I got to do that alone, and got a lot of useful experience from that.”
Having returned from his English stint, Mendis had his first taste of first-class cricket in 2015. But it was …
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