Participating in the Big Boss season 12, the former Indian pacer S Sreesanth spoke about his lifetime ban on cricket since 2013 IPL spot-fixing case.
After that spot-fixing incident has been broken out, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned Sreesanth to participate in any cricket match. Since then, the right-arm pacer hasn’t featured any competitive cricket match.
The Big Boss season 12 participant Sreesanth recently told in the show that he has no permission to watch any cricket match at the stadium ever in his life. Even he won’t be allowed in the school garden if his child plays cricket.
After making debut in international cricket in 2006, Sreesanth played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs and 10 T20Is where he picked up 87, 75 and 7 wickets respectively. He played his last international game in August 2011.
In his short international career for India, Sreesanth was in the two major international tournaments winning team. He was a member in 2007 ICC World T20 and 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, both had won by Indian cricket team and he played both the final. In the 2007 ICC World T20 final against Pakistan, Sreesanth took the match-winning catch at short fine-leg to dismiss opponent’s last batsman Misbah-ul-Haq.
On the other hand, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup final against Sri Lanka at Wankhede (Mumbai) was his last ODI. Since then, the right-arm pacer played only three Test matches, all on the English soil.
In overall, Sreesanth played 73 first-class matches, 86 List A matches and 60 T20 matches from 2002/03 to 2013 where he picked up 211 wickets, 111 wickets and 50 wickets respectively.
From the inaugural season (2008), Sreesanth played 44 IPL matches before he was banned in 2013. In the IPL history, Sreesanth played for Kings XI Punjab (2008-2010), Kochi Tuskers Kerala (2011) and Rajasthan Royals (2012-2013). In his IPL career, Sreesanth took 40 wickets and his best season was the inaugural season where he finished as the second most wicket-taker in the tournament after Rajasthan Royals’ Sohail Tanvir (22 wickets).
