One thing that I missed from that astonishing last game between the West Indies and Sri Lanka was the emergence of a new Lankan spinner. Ajantha Mendis. Here's one description:

Even Ramnaresh Sarwan appeared clueless at times to what Mendis was delivering, and at one stage, after being deceived by the flight and the turn of a delivery, the West Indies vice-captain looked quizzically at the young spinner with an expression that seemed to suggest "what freak of nature have Sri Lanka unearthed now".

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who won Man-of-the-Match, had to agree that it was difficult to pick Mendis.

"To be honest, when we saw his stats - after 19 first-class matches, he had 111 wickets at an average of 14.54 - we knew he had to be bowling something good," Bravo said.

Q asks if he is good enough to be Murali's long term replacement. Suneer has a long write up on him. Here's a youtube clip from the last game. And finally, UncleJ's account of leg spinners. Some of Mendis' deliveries fit in there somewhere...