The former fast bowler of India Sreesanth forever remains as one of the most unfortunate cricketers in the world cricket. The majority of his career wasted in doing rounds in front of the courts and finally got success during the fag end of his career. Speaking of the same, Sreesanth explains how people stayed away from him apart from Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman during that phase.
It’s just a matter of a few months before the seven-year ban imposed on S. Sreesanth for spot-fixing, which he was accused of during the Indian Premier League in 2013, comes to an end.
Since that day, Sreesanth has had to live with that stigma every day and many of his friends and teammates, with whom he had shared some of the biggest highs of his cricket career, shunted him away.
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I understood their apprehensions – Sreesanth
Sreesanth was accused of spot-fixing while playing for Rajasthan Royals and was slapped with a seven-year ban from all forms of cricket. Most of his teammates, Sreesanth says, began avoiding him barring Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman and few others but the Kerala cricketer has no qualms saying he understood their fears.
“Now, I do speak to many players. I spoke to Sachin (Tendulkar) Paaji recently on Twitter. Viru (Sehwag) Paaji, we keep messaging each other and Gautam (Gambhir), I met him recently. Publicly, most of the players used to avoid me except for Viru Bhai, Laxman Bhai and just three-four others would stay in touch with me. I also understood their apprehensions,” he said exclusively to Cricfit editor Mikkhail Vaswani.
”I also didn’t make an effort to engage with them as there were court proceedings going on against me. But then things improved in a couple of years. I met Bhajju pa at the airport not too long ago and I told him when I start playing cricket I will use the bat manufactured by Bhajji Sports,” told Sreesanth.
All in all, the tough times of Sreesanth set to come to an end within a few months of time. It would be interesting to see how the fast bowler makes his comeback into the Indian team.
