S Sreesanth is all set to leave Kerala cricket. The cricketer, while speaking to media persons in Kochi, said that he was ill treated by the Kerala Cricket Association authorities and that he is seriously thinking of representing some other state in the Ranji trophy. Sreesanth was unhappy after Kerala state senior selection board decided to strip him of the captaincy.
Sreesanth said that the team had performed well during the last season under his captaincy, and he does not know why he was removed from the captaincy.
He further said that he was suffering for the past couple of years and that there has been lot of back-stabbing against him.
He said that while several authorities were warm in front of him, many tried to finish his career. He added that he was a world-class bowler who was respected all through and was unhappy on the attitude of the authorities.
Sreesanth revealed that he had received good offers from several states, but had rejected them for the sake of playing for his home state, adding that he had performed well during the last season.
Meanwhile, reacting to Sreesanth's statement the Kerala Cricket Association secretary and BCCI member T.C. Mathew said that the state association has not done anything wrong. He said that the captaincy is something, which has to be achieved and not asked for.
He also said that the five-member selection committee who selected the team and captain was unanimous in giving the team captaincy to Raifi Vincent Gomes instead of Sreesanth. Mathews felt that what Sreesanth did was totally immature, adding that he wouldn't like to react to such statements.
However, Sreesanth did get some support in the form of former BCCI secretary S.K. Nair, who said that Mathews should have given more respected to the 26-year-old pacer as he had represented the country several times.
Source http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2010/jun/10/sreesanth-not-to-represent-kerala-in-ranji-trophy.htm
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