S Sreesanth was one of the most impactful bowlers for India those days. Blame his spot fixing scandal in 2013, he was banned for seven years. Now, 37 years old Sreesanth is looking to make a comeback to the Indian team and he wants to take things slow.
Talking about how he had to live through stigma everyday during the scandal and how his former teammates started to avoid him,
“Now, I do speak to many players. I spoke to Sachin (Tendulkar) paaji recently on twitter. Viru (Sehwag) paaji, we keep messaging each other and Gautam (Gambhir), I met him recently,” Sreesanth told India Today.
“Publicly, most the players used to avoid me except for Viru bhai, Laxman bhai and just three-four others would stay in touch with me. I also understood their apprehensions and I also didn’t make an effort to engage with them as there were court proceedings going on against me. But then things improved in a couple of years. I met Bhajju pa at the airport not too long ago and I told him when I start playing cricket I will use the bat manufactured by BhajjiSports,” added Sreesanth, whose seven-year ban comes to an end in September this year.
The pacer is also confident that he would go through everything to get back to the Indian side and he wants to start with getting back to his Kerala side.
He last played an ODI in 2011 and six months later, he played the tour of England.
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