Malinga should have been the 'man'

Sharm DE ALWIS

In the opening game of the IPL series, a flagrant miscarriage of justice prevented Lasith Malinga from being declared the Man of the Match.

Malinga snared 3 wickets, two of them crucial, for 15 runs in his alloted four overs. He was so awesomely devastating that his captain placed much faith in his prowess as to grant him the critical death over.

Tendulkar's unbeaten 59 was pedestrian in comparison with A.Naya'r 35 belted in 22 deliveries. Tendulkar often conceded him the strike. If Malinga was not to get the honour it should have gone to Nayar.

Malinga has changed his ornamental hairstyle and had he been asked why he well might have said, "Because Arjuna said he wouldn't take me on a visit to any school as a role model.