S. Sreesanth: Will he be the Kothamangalam Express?
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth 'aka' Sreesanth.S is a face of kerala's criket and he fontly known as The Prince of hat-tricks.
Kochi IPL franchisse Team member, S.Sreesanth was born on February 1983 in the easter ernakulam district's Kothamnagalam, Santhakumaran Sreesanth is a vibrant and aggressive bowler both for the Indian national cricket team and recently joined Kochi Ipl team.
Rumor's are there around about the Kochi Ipl Team that S.Sreesanth will captain that Kochi Ipl Team.
Concentrating mainly on the "Right-Arm-Fast Medium Pace", Sreesanth is a Right handed batsman too, who played for ranjhi trobhy team of kerala and represented the King's XI Punjab in the previous edition's of IPL T20.
After completing his schoolday's with a succeful breakdancing record, which sreesanth won during his eight grade on national level championship, he embarked his college day's with psychology as his major under graduate course.
Born to Shanthakumaran Nair and Savithri Devi as the last kid, he is the famous brother of Dipu Santhan, who is also an university level cricket player and now run's his own music company in kochi with support from his sister nivedhita and brother in-law Madhu Balakrishnan.
First selected to the MRF Pace foundation where he got exclusive training for pace bowling, followed with a domestic debut to cricket against goa, in ranjhi trobhy where he took 22 wicket's in seven matches which pushed him to be selected in southzone team. After that he has been selected for India-A team where he played against Newzeland.
"The Prince of hat-tricks" emblomed his names in the kerala cricket history with that wicket haul against himachal pradesh, which put him in the India-B team in the following day's of 2005, where he showned his impressive performence with 7 wicket's which shown him the place in the indian team against srilanka.
After the selection to indian team, The Prince of hat-tricks assigned with new ball where he met the famous srilankan cricketers with hard time for his bowling, but finally he took 2 wickets later in the match, which put him in the backseats for the next matches against srilanka and then he has included in the team.
Tour of Pakistan is the turning pint for this "Kothamangalam Express" where he stayed with an career best 4/58 and 6/55 during the indore match against England team.
From there he picked up his career, despite the poor economy rate he has been and out of the team with so many matches and series against cricket playing nations.
Later day's of 2007 is when sreesanth's cricket career become vital with that 2 important wickets against australia in T20 Championship of 2007, after that we remember that sreesanth's catch, which kept the T20 championship in the hand's of india against the pakitan team.
Famed to the high in a day with that slap from harbjan sing, sreesanth played for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League for three Consecutive years, which has came to an end sreesanth was picket by the Kochi IPL franchissee for the Team.
Sreesanth got numorius warnings from Kerala Cricket association, BCCI, for his aggressive behaviour, despite all of that he is still continuing his pace with the same attitiude, as correctly stated by him, "Sreesanth will always remain Sreesanth".
Let's hope for his magical performancs for the Kochi IPL Frnachisse team to make the IPL 2011 belongs to the god's own country.
Here below is the Complete Statistcal Details on Bowling of Sreesant, Batting averages of Sreesanth:
Statistical Details of Sreesanth's Bowling Performance:Bowling Averages of Sreesant: MAT INNS BALLS RUNS WKTS BBI BBM AVE ECON SR 4W 5W 10 Tests 24 46 4753 2778 79 May-40 Aug-99 35.16 3.5 60.1 4 3 0 ODIs 51 50 2398 2403 75 Jun-55 Jun-55 32.04 6.01 31.9 2 1 0 T20Is 10 9 204 288 7 12-Feb 12-Feb 41.14 8.47 29.1 0 0 0 First-class 64 - 11364 6498 191 May-40 - 34.02 3.43 59.4 8 6 0 List A 80 - 3796 3585 104 Jun-55 Jun-55 34.47 5.66 36.5 3 1 0 Twenty20 44 43 871 1270 38 29-Mar 29-Mar 33.42 8.74 22.9 0 0 0
Statistical Details of Sreesanth's Batting and Fielding Performance:Batting and Fielding Avereages of Sreesanth.S MAT INNS NO RUNS HS AVE BF SR 100 50 4S 6S CT Tests 24 34 11 263 35 11.43 497 52.91 0 0 35 4 5 ODIs 51 21 10 44 10* 4 121 36.36 0 0 2 0 7 T20Is 10 3 2 20 19* 20 14 142.85 0 0 4 0 2 First-class 64 85 26 573 35 9.71 1286 44.55 0 0 - - 14 List A 80 36 15 127 33 6.04 285 44.56 0 0 - - 9 Twenty20 44 14 9 71 19* 14.2 82 86.58 0 0 13 0 8
Statistical Details of Sreesanth's IPL T-20 Performance:IPL T20 Avereages of Sreesanth.S MAT RUNS HS AVE SR 100 50 CT IPL T20 22 263 4 5 23.81 0 0 2
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