Sreesanth

Sreesanth

India

Full name Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Born February 6, 1983, Kothamangalam, Kerala
Current age 24 years 22 days
Major teams India, Kerala, Kerala Under-19s
Also known as Gopu
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	8	13	4	126	29*	14.00	209	60.28	0	0	15	2	1	0
ODIs	27	9	4	7	3	1.40	28	25.00	0	0	0	0	3	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	34	46	15	290	29*	9.35	686	42.27	0	0			6	0
List A	45	18	9	73	33	8.11	144	50.69	0	0			5	0
Twenty20	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	8	1709	961	37	5/40	8/99	25.97	3.37	46.18	4	1	0
ODIs	27	1317	1264	35	6/55	6/55	36.11	5.75	37.62	1	1	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	24	33	1	1/33	1/33	33.00	8.25	24.00	0	0	0
First-class	34	6100	3341	110	5/40		30.37	3.28	55.45	7	3	0
List A	45	2241	2055	54	6/55	6/55	38.05	5.50	41.50	2	1	0
Twenty20	1	24	33	1	1/33	1/33	33.00	8.25	24.00	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v England at Nagpur - Mar 1-5, 2006
Last Test	South Africa v India at Cape Town - Jan 2-6, 2007
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur - Oct 25, 2005
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Visakhapatnam - Feb 17, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
First-class span	2002/03 - 2006/07
List A span	2002/03 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2006/07

Profile

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."