Sreesanth, Chandilla and Ankit Chavan arrested for spot fixing in IPL

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^^ Was Cheeka drunk? Horrible dance. :P

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Sreesanth: From angry bird to a rotten egg? The spot-fixing controversy has left people from Sreesanth's home state fuming, who they say, has discredited Kerala and his fans

Till Thursday morning, 30-year-old Sreesanth was an icon who inspired young cricketers in his home state of Kerala. Considered an angry bird with a killing instinct, people waited outside his house to catch a glimpse of him, heroines danced with him and even senior bureaucrats and politicians hosted him. But today, he is being berated as a rotten egg. Though he has pleaded innocence and blamed his friend-turned-bookie, Jiju Janardanan; the explanation does not have too many takers. Many believe he was treading on the wrong path for a long time and is now paying for it. “Ever since allegations of match-fixing surfaced in the IPL last year, the police and media have been monitoring the developments very closely. He is a fool who took everything for granted. Why did he walk into the trap? He has discredited Kerala and his fans. We have lost face before the nation,” says TC Mathew, General Secretary, Kerala Cricket Association (KCA). For the KCA, the match-fixing controversy in which Sreesanth has figured as a key player, was a bolt from the blue. “Two other young Kerala players are in the Rajasthan Royals team. I was scared when the news of his arrest was flashed on the channels. But thankfully they are not involved,” says Mathew. He adds that KCA is planning to ban players from participating in the Cricket League matches in Dubai. “That is the place where bookies make first contact with budding players. We want to save our players,” says Mathew. While the KCA is fumbling to figure out how to respond to the arrests, Kerala is fuming at the cricketer for his misdeeds. His effigies were burnt and a few people shouted slogans in front of his house in Kochi. “He ditched all of us for a few bucks,” says Abid Usman, a 19 year-old young cricketer. Like him, many are turning their face away from their old hero. In Kochi, some of the real-estate brokers are jittery as the investigations may derail their business plans. “Sreesanth’s mother was active in the real estate business in Kochi,” revealed one prominent broker who did not want to be identified. Sree’s family was one of the new line investors who gambled in the booming real- estate market in Kochi, they say. “Born in a lower middle-class family, his celebrity status helped his family to dine and dance with the people who matter in Kochi,” says one of his old neighbours. “After Sree started playing for India, their lifestyle had changed. The instant publicity and celebrity status ruined them,” says another neighbour. The arrest and match-fixing scandal has hit Sree at a crucial time in his life. “He was about to complete the construction of his house in September and planning to get married. I was told that he was engaged to a rich girl,” says an old class mate. Many of his friends attribute his fall due to his craze for luxury. Sree has always been a troublemaker and emotionally unsteady throughout his life. His success as a cricketer never made him mature. According to the Kochi social circles, he could not cope with the instant celebrity status he was thrust into. “His partying spirit and dancing with celebrities led to his fall. He was a misguided guy throughout his life. Now he is paying for it,” said a fellow cricketer who studied with him in Choice school Kochi. But there are a few people who still regard him as a spirited sportsman who dedicated his life for playing cricket. “Now he may be a fallen icon, but I knew him as a boy who had a passion for cricket. In fact he showed our youngsters that they could have a future in Indian cricket,” says a fellow player who has played with him. Sreesanth’s career in first-class cricket started in 2002 against Goa, where he claimed 22 wickets in seven matches in the Ranji trophy and was selected for the South Zone in the Duleep Trophy. Later he was selected for India in a match against the visiting New Zealand where he claimed one wicket in 12 overs but got injured. He returned to the Ranji Trophy in 2004 and achieved a hat trick against Himachal Pradesh. He also gave a spectacular performance in the Challenger Trophy tournament and won the Man of the Series award by taking seven wickets with the third best bowling average. But since then, he was erratic in his performance. “He was not happy with his career. He was aware that his performance was going down. This may have forced him to try and make the last big haul of money from cricket,” said another cricket official who did not want to be named. Meanwhile, his family is pleading his innocence and has requested everyone to come forward to support him. “Please pray for him. He is not a cheat. We need your prayers and support,” Dipu Shanthan, his elder brother said. Dipu, who met Sreesanth in police custody, said that his brother told him that it was Jiju Janardhanan who might have colluded with the bookies and taken the money. But for now, the investigations continue to be focused on Sreesanth as the prime accused and many find his defence to be feeble.

http://tehelka.com/sreesanth-from-angry-bird-to-a-rotten-egg/

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Press Trust of India ‏@PTI_News Rajasthan Royals to file FIR againt the three arrested players for cheating the public.

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Press Trust of India ‏@PTI_News Rajasthan Royals to file FIR againt the three arrested players for cheating the public.

They should file FIR for cheating against Franchise , why they gave reason cheating against public :dontknow:

[Sachin=GOD]

BCCI meeting on spot fixing issue ends, press conference at 1 pm.

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will be same bs again from BCCI

[CSK Fan]

Sreesanth: From angry bird to a rotten egg? The spot-fixing controversy has left people from Sreesanth's home state fuming, who they say, has discredited Kerala and his fans http://tehelka.com/sreesanth-from-angry-bird-to-a-rotten-egg/

When we repeatedly said that a cricketer should be disciplined and should not be allowed to get away with bad manners and gestures because it will go to there head, there were many here who thought this was what being aggressive was and as long as we are winning, the players can get away with murder. They were also calling disciplined players like Sachin and dravid pu$$!es. There is a reason discipline and good behavior is must for any upcoming player. They are often not equipped to handle fame and money. If they are allowed to get away with being rude, obnoxious and being a prat in their early career soon they think they can get away with anything. Very strong self discipline and control are needed at that stage.

[superstar]

BCCI meeting on spot fixing issue ends' date=' press conference at 1 pm.[/quote'] Aaj tak reporting our dear chairman Shuklaji and Jaitley ji have skipped the meeting. :finger:

[Sachin=GOD]

When we repeatedly said that a cricketer should be disciplined and should not be allowed to get away with bad manners and gestures because it will go to there head, there were many here who thought this was what being aggressive was and as long as we are winning, the players can get away with murder. They were also calling disciplined players like Sachin and dravid pu$$!es. There is a reason discipline and good behavior is must for any upcoming player. They are often not equipped to handle fame and money. If they are allowed to get away with being rude, obnoxious and being a prat in their early career soon they think they can get away with anything. Very strong self discipline and control are needed at that stage.

when I read the part in bold, the one player who immediately comes to my mind is Kohli - tremendous talent, very popular, extremely rich, arrogant, abusive and out of control - in short, a perfect recipe for disaster.

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when I read the part in bold' date=' the one player who immediately comes to my mind is Kohli - tremendous talent, very popular, extremely rich, arrogant, abusive and out of control - in short, a perfect recipe for disaster.[/quote'] But he can kick bookies unlike Sree who can just cry :--D

[CSK Fan]

There are more than one way of going wrong for a young player. It's better they focus on cricket and their career rather than being known for abuses or other things.

[Old guy]

when I read the part in bold' date=' the one player who immediately comes to my mind is Kohli - tremendous talent, very popular, extremely rich, arrogant, abusive and out of control - in short, a perfect recipe for disaster.[/quote'] nope no true he is very disciplined and according to dravid ,yuvraj and many other membes of indain team has tremendous work ethic and uses is anger in positive way unlike sreesanth and is quite popular in team too .. to be honest he is more like ponting then sreesanth..

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There are more than one way of going wrong for a young player. It's better they focus on cricket and their career rather than being known for abuses or other things.

Azhar,Jadeja,Cronje none of these people seemed like abusive chareceters :dontknow:

[CSK Fan]

BTW news channels reporting that strict actions might be taken against RR franchise by BCCI

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BTW news channels reporting that strict actions might be taken against RR franchise by BCCI

Will be if that happened :((

[superstar]

Will be if that happened :((

RCB may sneak into the play offs :two_thumbs_up:

[Sachin=GOD]

Him against the world Even at the height of his success with the national side, Sreesanth was a lonely cricketer who felt hard done by

Did he do it? For a few years, between 2006 and 2009, I knew Sreesanth better than many of you - in my role as a cricket writer, a friend, and, as he insisted on calling me, an older brother. But on Thursday morning, like millions around the world, I did not have an answer to the question above. Three days later, I still don't. During all those phone conversations that he and I had over the years, all those meetings - on the cricket field, in his hotel room, at my house - did I ever get the feeling that he would one day be branded a fixer? No. Never. I did ask him once or twice about betting and match-fixing. I asked whether he had ever heard of these things while playing for India. Rumours, a stray conversation overheard, suspicious characters floating around a team member, anything at all? His "no" was always firm. "What's wrong with you, don't you have anything else to talk about?" he asked me once. My last conversation with him was in November 2009, when I called him to say that I was relocating to Oman. My first was when I walked up to him in Kingston in 2006 and introduced myself. "Malayali aano? [Are you a Malayali?]," he asked. My answer made his eyes light up. It was his first overseas tour with the Indian team, and I had just returned to cricket journalism after a gap of many years. We soon discovered that we were the only people in the entire travelling Indian contingent - players, officials and media - from the southern Indian state of Kerala, speaking the language of the state, Malayalam. I soon discovered that Sreesanth was an extremely lonely cricketer, with hardly anyone in the Indian team he could call a friend. I represented a generation much before his, and we had little in common, except for the language, but I felt that he was more at ease with me than with his own team-mates. I soon realised that he only wanted to talk to someone, and to be listened to. Contrary to what most of my journalist friends believed, he never really gave me any "inside dope" about the team. Any such question was almost always countered with, "It's not right on my part to talk about that", or simply, "Why do you want to know?" We usually ended up talking about life, the power of religion, and even issues involving his personal life that no one would really want to tell anyone, let alone a journalist. As the months passed, and as I travelled more with the team and with Sreesanth, one theme started dominating our conversations. His constant refrain was: Nobody in the team likes me, I have no godfathers to back me. He complained that since he came from Kochi, a city that was yet to figure on the Indian cricket map then, he was discriminated against, particularly when the team was being selected. He claimed that his cricketing skills came to be noticed only after he moved to Bangalore, and that he had only ever received any significant support at the higher level from one man, Greg Chappell, then the team's coach. He fumed that some of his team-mates from north India were spreading stories about him, maligning him. In fact, on the 2006-07 tour of South Africa, the crowning moment of his fledgling career, he was more concerned about a story allegedly being spread by some of his team-mates: that he always carried a knife about with him! Yet, soon enough, if briefly, he became an "established" member of the Indian team. Our conversations became few and far in between, he would often not answer the phone when I called, and after some time stopped returning calls too. Sreesanth the cricketer had become Sreesanth, the dancer, the brand ambassador, the star. Then came a call, at around 4am one morning. "Brother, you have to come to the hotel. I am in the lobby and there is some breaking news." I was working for ESPNcricinfo in Bangalore then, and rushed to the hotel. There he was, chatting to some TV reporters who he had called too. He claimed that the hotel staff had refused to allot him and a friend a room he wanted, and that they had "misbehaved" with him. He wanted the journalists to do a story about that. I was more interested in the friend, simply because this was the first time he had ever introduced anyone to me as his friend. "That guy was my manager." he later told me. I never came across that manager again, but I started seeing more such people with Sreesanth. He once came to the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore with one such friend, and left with him. It was never the same person, though all of them were young, hair gelled in the latest fashion, sporting branded clothing. "Who are these guys?" I asked him once. "Don't worry, I know them well," he said. "Just make sure your friends don't land you in any more trouble." I told him once, days after he hit the headlines for a party that had ended in violence at an apartment he was renting in Bangalore. At around that time, I happened to discuss Sreesanth with one of his former India team-mates. "He is so naïve. He will do anything for his friends," this player said to me. "I have once seen him hand over whatever cash he had in his pocket to someone who approached him with a sob story." Sreesanth's stint with the Indian team did not last long, and he was dropped. "I will come back," he said to me. "I will now focus only on cricket, nothing else." It was a line I would hear repeatedly from him, even as he appeared on tacky TV dance shows, in fashion shoots, and gossip columns linking him to various Indian movie actresses and models. In between, there was the incident with Harbhajan Singh, where once again Sreesanth told me that he was being discriminated against. "He punched me, but everyone is supporting him. They are putting pressure on me not to take up the issue any further," he said. By now our interactions were limited to the few times we met at the cricket academy. Then one day in November 2009, I tried his number. To my surprise, he answered. He wished me luck, and ended the conversation with his usual line: "Pray for me, brother." I tried to stay in touch with him later on the phone and on email, but there was no response. Life went on, his and mine. Yes, he did keep popping up on my computer and TV screens, under various headlines, some good, some bad. And most of them brought a smile to my face. Until last Thursday morning

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/636661.html

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RCB may sneak into the play offs :two_thumbs_up:

Don't want RCB go to playoffs in that way , we are a far better team than that :proud:

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if strict action has to be taken then it should be done against the BCCI - a buch of irresponsible idiots running Indian cricket for their own profits.

[superstar]

Don't want RCB go to playoffs in that way ' date=' [b']we are a far better team than that :proud:

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Royal chokers