Sri Lankan action heroes wreck India

By John Cheeran
Action heroes never go out of fashion.
Whether it is in movies or in cricket they often come to visit us to remind us of their potential to create mayhem.
Normally you have only one action hero at a given time. It is Sri Lanka’s fortune that they have taken two action heroes to Ahmedabad Test against India.
Lasith Malinga and Muttaih Muralithran did their job brilliantly after Sri Lankan skipper Marvan Attapattu lost the toss again.
It was Malinga who struck the initial blows. He had openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag for breakfast.
Then stepped in Muralithran.
Muralitharan was so hungry that he had Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh in the same over.
On a slow, low wicket Malinga’s round arm action kept troubling the Indian batsmen.
Malinga’s action also reminded me of those days when we were taking aims at mangoes in our backyard. May be there are more mangoes in Sri Lanka to take aim at than in India.
Juicy thought indeed!