"Yeah, I think he is a particularly over-rated bowler. And so he was a great target for us to go at. He always loses his cool under pressure and I think it was a good example of that (in the match)," former Aussie international Mathew Hayden said.
Hayden hit Sreesanth for three sixes in the 17th over in his innings of 89 before falling to the same bowler in the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings Eleven Punjab. A furious Sreesanth gave a mouthful to the Australian when he was heading for the dressing room.
Hayden, however, refused to reveal what words Sreesanth had hurled at him.
"You don't want to know. It's just so meaningless. Mate ... I am a Test veteran and a one-day international veteran, I have got nothing to answer to him that's for certain," said Hayden.
It's diffcult to understand what Sreesanth thinks about himself.What Hayden said about him,that he is an over-rated bowler is absolutely correct.What Sreesath has done for India except the bad name he has earned for him and the team by his dirty and childish antics...
He has got into ugly spat with every other team against he has played.In almost all earlier instances he was supported by we Indians,mainly because he was representing India,even when we knew that he was the main culprit in most of those instances.
Now,it's time we change our views about him and stop supporting him at least when he does some thing wrong.Any body who watched the IPL match will agree that there was absolutely no provocation from Hayden.Hayden hit Sreesanth for three sixes in the final overs,which is quite natural in a cricket match.Batsman will try to score,bowlers will try to take wickets.That is what cricket is all about..
Sreesanth does not know this?
Nobody should try and score of him?
Is that what he thinks?
If yes,he does not deserve to play the game of cricket,that's to put it mildly..!!
If a bowler starts abusing a batsman when the batsman hits him for a six,well,then how the game can be called a "so-called" 'Gentleman's game'..!!
In this particular instance,what made his ugly outburst the worst is because of the obvious lack of any sense of sportsman spirit.Mathew Hayden got out after playing a great knock and instead of appreciating his effort,Sreesanth was seen abusing Hayden.Hayden just walked off with a smile..
It's high time either the Indian cricket authorities give a stern warning to Sreesanth about his constant ugly behavior on-field or he should not be picked to play for any international side in future and may be not even in any domestic side,till he mend his ways...
How can he play a cricket match if he thinks that no batsman should bat well against him..!!
It's ok,if there is some friendly chit-chat on-field between rival players,but in Sreesanth's case it's clearly not friendly and his showman style actions are an insult to the teams he represent..
In the last IPL season also,Sreesanth was involved in some spat with Harbhajan Singh resulting in Harbhajan slapping him and Sreesanth weeping on-field after the match.It's absolutely sure that the culprit then also,who initiated the ugly spat would have been Sreesanth.
May be all these antics are a part of Sreesanth's effort to stay in the limelight.Any way his bowling is not that great these days..
And I do feel it's about time the media in Kerala stopped glorifying Sreesanth just because he is a Malayali.I am a Malayali and I don't think we should support Sreesanth in all what he does.The media in Kerala should treat him as any other player playing for India or like any other Indian player playing in the IPL.There should not be any bias just because he is from Kerala.
We should not blindly support anybody,that will make the individual think that he is above all criticisms which will result in him repeating the same mistakes again and again.
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Sreesanth is definitely the most over-rated bowler India has today. Infact, he shouldn't be even playing cricket. Instead, BCCI should look at sending him to Kashmir to fight terrorists. He may prove useful there knowing how short-tempered he is.
Or else, he should be given a night-watchman's job in his colony in Cochin or Bangalore. He may prove effective there.
At his age, he has an attitude which will not get him anywhere.
I think its high time his family and friends advised him to calm down and get into doing something - say starting a dance school, or participating in some dance competitions.
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