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S. Sreesanth

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Sreesanth on the sets of KBC 10.jpg
Sreesanth at an event in 2012.
Personal information
Full name Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Born (1983-02-06) 6 February 1983 (age 34)
Kothamangalam, Kerala, India
Nickname Sree, Gopu
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 253) 1 March 2006 v England
Last Test 18 August 2011 v England
ODI debut (cap 162) 25 October 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 2 April 2011 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 36
T20I debut (cap 10) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 1 February 2008 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
2002–present Kerala
2008–2010 Kings XI Punjab
2009 Warwickshire
2011 Kochi Tuskers Kerala
2008-2013 Rajasthan Royals
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC List A
Matches 27 53 72 82
Runs scored 284 44 642 127
Batting average 10.40 4.00 9.44 6.04
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 35 10* 35 33
Balls bowled 5,419 2,476 12,895 3,874
Wickets 87 75 210 104
Bowling average 37.59 33.44 35.55 35.48
5 wickets in innings 3 1 6 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 5/40 6/55 5/40 6/55
Catches/stumpings 5/– 7/– 16/– 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 4 January 2013
S. Sreesanth
Constituency Kerala
Personal details
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party (2016 - )

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (Malayalam: ശ്രീശാന്ത്‌, Santakumaran Srisanth (About this sound pronunciation ), born 6 February 1983) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he played for Kerala and in the Indian Premier League, he played for Rajasthan Royals. He is also the first Kerala Ranji player to have played Twenty20 cricket for India. In September 2013, he was banned for life from playing Cricket by the BCCI, for his involvement in spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL season.Sreesanth is making his debut as an actor in the upcoming movie Big Picture.

Sreesanth was born on February 6, 1983 to Santhakumaran Nair and Savithri Devi. He has one elder brother and two elder sisters. His brother Dipu Santhan owns a music company in Kochi and his eldest sister Nivedita is a television actress in Kerala. Sreesanth's elder sister Divya got married to Madhu Balakrishnan, a famous South Indian playback singer.

On 12 December 2013, Sreesanth married his girlfriend Bhuvneshwari Kumari of Jaipur's Shekhawat family at Guruvayur Sri Krishna temple in Kerala. Bhuvneshwari Kumari aka Nain Shekhawat is the daughter of Hirendra Singh Shekhawat and Muktha Singh.


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