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Shanthakumaran Sreesanth

Sreesanth at an event in 2012.

Personal information

Full name

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth

Born

6 February 1983 (age 30) Kothamangalam, Kerala, India

Nickname

Sree, Gopu

Height

5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm fast-medium

Role

Bowler

International information

National side Test debut (cap 253) Last Test ODI debut (cap 162) Last ODI T20I debut (cap 10) Last T20I

India 1 March 2006 v England 18 August 2011 v England 25 October 2005 v Sri Lanka 2 April 2011 v Sri Lanka 1 December 2006 v South Africa 1 February 2008 v Australia

Domestic team information Years 2002present 20082010 2009 2011 Banned for life in 2013[1] Kerala Kings XI Punjab Warwickshire Kochi Tuskers Kerala Rajasthan Royals Career statistics
Competition Matches Runs scored Batting average 100s/50s Top score Balls bowled Wickets Bowling average 5 wickets in innings

Team

Tests 27 284 10.40 0/0 35 5,419 87 37.59 3

ODI 53 44 4.00 0/0 10* 2,476 75 33.44 1

FC 72 642 9.44 0/0 35 12,895 210 35.55 6

List A 82 127 6.04 0/0 33 3,874 104 35.48 1

10 wickets in match Best bowling Catches/stumpings

0 5/40 5/

0 6/55 7/

0 5/40 16/

0 6/55 9/

Source: Cricinfo, 4 January 2013

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (Malayalam: , Santakumaran Srisant) pronunciation (helpinfo) (born 6 February 1983), is a former Indian cricketer. He was a rightarm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he played for Kerala and in the Indian Premier League, he played for Rajasthan Royals. He is also the first Kerala Ranji player to have played Twenty20 cricket for India. In September 2013, he was banned for life from playing Cricket by the BCCI, for his involvement in spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL season.[2]

Contents
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1 Personal Life 2 Early years 3 ODI career 4 Test career 5 World Twenty20 Championship, 2007 6 Warwickshire 7 Indian Premier League o 7.1 Altercation with Harbhajan Singh o 7.2 Spot fixing allegation and arrest 8 Official warnings 9 Name o 9.1 Correct name o 9.2 Decision and cancellation of name change 10 References 11 External links

Personal Life
Sreesanth was born on February 6 1983 to Santhakumaran Nair and Savithri Devi. He has one elder brother and two elder sisters.[3] His brother Dipu Santhan owns a music company in Kochi and his eldest sister Nivedita is a television actress in Kerala. Sreesanth's elder sister Divya got married to Madhu Balakrishnan, a famous South Indian playback singer.[citation needed]

On 12 December 2013, Sreesanth married his girlfriend Bhuvneshwari Kumari of Jaipur's Shekhawat family at Guruvayur Sri Krishna temple in Kerala. Bhuvneshwari Kumari aka Nain Shekhawat is the daughter of Hirendra Singh Shekhawat and Muktha Singh.[4]

Early years
Sreesanth initially was a leg-spinner in his childhood, modelling his action on India's leading Test wicket-taker Anil Kumble, who was to become his Test captain. However, his habit of bowling yorkers led him to convert to fast bowling, after being encouraged by his elder brother.[5] Following in the footsteps of fellow Kerala fast bowler Tinu Yohannan, who earned selection to the National Cricket Academy in 2000, Sreesanth was selected for the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai. He then made his first-class debut against Goa in the 200203 domestic season, claiming 22 wickets in seven matches in the Ranji Trophy[6] and winning selection for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy squad in the same season.[7] He was selected for India-A side in a tour match against the visiting New Zealand side at Rajkot. He claimed one wicket in twelve overs after being restricted with a hamstring injury. He also missed five Ranji Trophy games in that season, although he still travelled with the side for away games. This led to rumours that an astrologer convinced him to take a break from competition to preserve his longevity in the sport, which Sreesanth categorically denied, maintaining that he was training only to regain his fitness.[5] In November 2004, Sreesanth entered the record books when he took a hat-trick against Himachal Pradesh in a Ranji trophy game.[citation needed] He was selected to represent India B in the Challenger Trophy in October 2005, a domestic limited-overs tournament.[8] He performed impressively in that tournament, earning the Man of the Series award and being the leading wicket taker (7) with the third best bowling average.[9] This led to his selection to Indian team for the home ODI series against Sri Lanka.[10]

ODI career
Sreesanth was given the new ball[11] in the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Nagpur. After being punished early by Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya, Sreesanth returned to claim his first two ODI wickets at the end of the match.[12] He was left out of the team and was later recalled for the fourth, fifth and sixth ODIs as coach Greg Chappell tinkered with the line-up. He was retained in the squad[13] but did not play in the 5 match series against South Africa, but played all five matches in the tour to Pakistan, recording a haul of 4/58 in the fifth ODI against Pakistani cricket team in Karachi. A good home series against the England in April 2006, in which he claimed 10 wickets at an average of 16.3, including a career best 6/55 in the final match at Indore (in which he was awarded the man of the match award [1]),[14] led to him subsequently being awarded a BCCI contract, in the C-grade in May.[15] His disappointing economy rate led him to be left out of the ICC Champions Trophy squad of 14, with the beneficiary being R. P. Singh. He made an unexpected come back to the blue squad due

to the injury to Ajit Agarkar later in the tournament. He was also out of the Indian ODI team for the England tour. In the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Sreesanth was selected due to injury to Praveen Kumar. He was expensive in the first game going wicketless at 53 runs in 5 overs. He was selected in the final where he gave away 52 runs in 8 wicketless overs.