INDIA
Full name - Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Born - February 6, 1983, Kothamangalam, Kerala
Current age - 23 years
Major teams - India, Kerala, Kerala Under-19s
Also known - Gopu
Batting style - Right-hand bat
Bowling style - Right-arm fast-medium
Statsguru - Test player, ODI player
| BATTING AND FIELDING AVERAGES |
| class |
mat |
inns |
no |
runs |
hs |
ave |
bf |
sr |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
ct |
st |
| Tests |
5 |
7 |
3 |
75 |
29* |
18.75 |
138 |
54.34 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| ODIs |
20 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
2* |
1.00 |
9 |
33.33 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| First-class |
30 |
39 |
14 |
226 |
29* |
9.04 |
571 |
39.57 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
6 |
0 |
| List A |
38 |
15 |
8 |
69 |
33 |
9.85 |
125 |
55.20 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
4 |
0 |
| class |
mat |
balls |
runs |
wkts |
bbi |
bbm |
ave |
econ |
sr |
4 |
5 |
10 |
| Tests |
5 |
1019 |
566 |
19 |
4/70 |
5/72 |
29.78 |
3.33 |
53.63 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| ODIs |
20 |
1009 |
937 |
28 |
6/55 |
6/55 |
33.46 |
5.57 |
36.03 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| First-class |
30 |
5280 |
2847 |
88 |
5/57 |
|
32.35 |
3.23 |
60.00 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
| List A |
38 |
1933 |
1728 |
47 |
6/55 |
6/55 |
36.76 |
5.36 |
41.12 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
| CAREER STATISTICS |
 |
| |
| Test debut |
India v England at Nagpur - Mar 1-5, 2006 |
| Last Test |
West Indies v India at Kingston - Jun 30-Jul 2, 2006 |
| ODI debut |
India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur - Oct 25, 2005 |
| Last ODI |
India v Australia at Chandigarh - Oct 29, 2006 |
| First-class span |
2002/03 - 2006/07 |
| List A span |
2002/03 - 2006/07 |
For three seasons, Sreesanth was hardly anything more than an answer to a trivia question - who is the only Kerala bowler to have taken a Ranji Trophy hat-trick ? His rise, though, was rapid, and since he played for a weak side, unnoticed. Not too many bowlers get selected for the Duleep Trophy in their first season, like Sreesanth did in 2002-03 after snapping up 22 wickets in his first seven games. His progress was halted owing to a hamstring injury in the following year, but he returned stronger, with a more side-on action and increased pace and a superb display in the Challenger Trophy, in 2005, propelled him to the national squad for the Sri Lanka series. In the last game of his impressive debut season, he snapped up 6 for 55 against England, the best figures by an Indian fast bowler at home. Idiosyncratic, with an aggressive approach - to the stumps and the game - he can be expensive in one-dayers, but is also a wicket-taking bowler. He does it in Tests, too - in Antigua in June 2006 he fired out Ramnaresh Sarwan and Brian Lara (for 0) in successive overs, and then took five wickets in Jamaica and played a key role in firing India to a historic triumph. "People think I am high-strung," he says of his whole-hearted approach. "I keep saying things to calm myself and perk myself up, but I don't see it or feel it as draining at all. In fact, it's been a habit with me for a long time, this constant revving-up, something like brushing my teeth."
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (July 2006)
