Kerala Cricket Association to Ask BCCI to Lift Ban on S. Sreesanth
S. Sreesanth, who was acquitted in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing scandal, has found support from his state cricket association after the BCCI said the life bans imposed on him and two other cricketers would remain.
Kerala Cricket Association on Sunday decided to write to the BCCI seeking lifting of the life ban imposed on pacer S. Sreesanth, who has been discharged by a Delhi court in the IPL-6 spot-fixing case.
KCA president T C Mathew, who is also a BCCI vice-president, will write to the Board regarding this after a Delhi court on Saturday dropped charges against former India pacer Sreesanth and two others in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal. (Sreesanth Back to Training After Court Drops Charges)
"We will appeal to BCCI to lift the ban. We will soon write to BCCI as the court has discharged Sreesanth (in the IPL spot-fixing case)," KCA Secretary T N Ananthanarayanan told PTI.
Mathew, who is currently in Bangalore, said the KCA will wait for response from the BCCI after sending the letter requesting lifting of the ban imposed on Sreesanth.
A delegation of KCA office bearers may also meet the BCCI top brass, KCA officials said. (Why Delhi Police Failed to Clean Bowl Sreesanth and Co.)
Soon after the court verdict, the BCCI said it had decided to stick to its ban on the three cricketers -- Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan -- for the time being.