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Cricket : S. Sreesanth back in the Kerala Ranji team after 7 year ban

Posted by Shaily Goyal
No one was expecting this but controversial former Indian pacer is back in Ranji fold. After a seven-year ban the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) has decided to include controversial speedster S Sreesanth (37) in the state Ranji cricket team. Sreesanth’s ban ends in September this year.    “I am really indebted to the KCA for giving […]
No one was expecting this but controversial former Indian pacer is back in Ranji fold. After a seven-year ban the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) has decided to include controversial speedster S Sreesanth (37) in the state Ranji cricket team. Sreesanth’s ban ends in September this year. 
 
“I am really indebted to the KCA for giving me a chance. I will prove my fitness and storm back to the game. It is time for all controversies to take rest,” he said in Kochi to Hindustan Times. Recently KCA had appointed former fast bowler Tinu Yohanan as the team coach. 
 
Sreesanth was banned after spot fixing charges while playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2013

In May 2013 Delhi police had arrested Sreesanth and two of his Rajasthan Royals team mates, Ajit Chandilia and Ankit Chavan, on charges of spot- fixing. The Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) had imposed a life ban on him. Later he fought a long battle. In 2015 a special court in Delhi had acquitted him of all charges.

In 2018 the Kerala High Court had also revoked the BCCI decision to impose a life ban on him. But in 2019 the Supreme Court upheld his guilt but asked the BCCI to reduce his quantum of punishment. Later the BCCI had reduced his life ban to seven years which will end in September 2020.

Kochi-based Sreesanth, notorious for his on- field pranks, took 87 wickets in 27 tests and 75 wickets in one-day internationals. He was also a member of the World Cup cricket winning team in 2011. 

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