From: "aji " Living In Silent Pain"" <me4aji@gmail.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 25 January, 2011 10:05:27 PM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] If you are proud to be a keralite..please support Sreesanth?
y should we support to sreesanth for being proud to Kerala??? what nonsence your saying dear?? what he did for kerala instead of making his bad image himself???
Once he askd police security for coming in kerala. i never seeing sucha ego person so how can i support ??? but am proud to say that am frm kerala
Aji
Dear Jishad
I don't think Sreesanth done anything wrong with his behaviour...he got some spirit and sometimes overdoing it...so many players from the past had this problem...eg:Miandad, botham,kiran more....and fast bowlers doing sledging...that's common...Aussies are doing it well....and did you see the match between Eng and Australia on last sunday.....Shahzad (England fast bowler) frequently had a talk with Haddin.....but nobody raise any issues about it...but when sree do anything like that ,everybody attacks him...and from his captain also...that's very unfortunate mate...a good captain should support him and control him...but never go to public....that's not fair..."I am so heart-broken…it's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Jai Mata di," S Sreesanth wrote on Twitter, moments after the World Cup squad was made public.
It is not all that difficult to read between the lines: the pacer has lost faith in captain MS Dhoni.
The India skipper was clear who his men would be. At the teleconference, he insisted that Ashish Nehra be chosen ahead of Sreesanth despite the latter's heroics in the just-concluded Test series.
DNA has gathered that there was a big debate on Sreesanth at the BCCI meeting on Monday, but the skipper's word settled the issue."Dhoni's thoughts are no secret. He always preferred Nehra to Sreesanth. There was no way Sree would fit in a squad of 15," a source in the team management said.
I just ask you one question...Is sreesanth deserve a place in the indian team ahead of Nehera?...I think he does...that's the only thing I want to say...and I heard Dhoni also has some problem with Irfan and dinesh karthik....What struck me as strange was the sequence: South African captain Graeme Smith was rattled by something Sreesanth said; his mental concentration was upset and he fell, in the fashion of a novice, to the next ball. At that point, you had to say 'job well done' by Sreesanth.
Smith then chose to "take up the issue" with Dhoni. Fair enough - only, Smith accused the Indian bowler of dragging in sexual references to family members, while the commentators of the time, and subsequent published reports, indicated that Sree had told Smith he was arrogant, that even his own team thought so, and no one liked him. A Steve Waugh, an Arjuna Ranatunga, would have laughed in his sleeve and even let Sree loose on the opposition captain in the next game - but Dhoni chose to publicly upbraid his player. (If speaking out of turn to the opposition is to be upbraided, how about sexually charged abuse of one's own team mate on the field of play, of the kind Harbhajan indulged in?)
Yet the whole cricketing ecosystem including the media, tired perhaps of his consistent trysts with controversy, has made him a virtual outsider, in the team dressing room and outside. Reports of his being humiliated in the dressing room surfaced again during the Test series against South Africa; on the field on day four of the third Test we saw the spectacle of senior bowler Harbhajan Singh loudly abusing him for some perceived misdeed; lip-readers will have picked up in Singh's words a reference to his team-mate's sexual liaisons with various female members of his family.
"Left arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure your diseases. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there is no practical use in that, there is most certainly value."
The quote above is from Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, the debut cricket novel from the fine young Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka.
What - or rather, who - those lines remind me of is an Indian bowler who cannot unclog your dreams, or teach your children how to behave; but he can sure as hell bowl the occasional ball (ask Jacques Kallis) or the occasional spell (ask South Africa) that can bring a nation to its feet.
That bowler is Shantakumaran Sreesanth.![]()
Sujith Jacob Abraham
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