New icon Sreesanth rings in changes
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
AFP
Kochi too seems equally frantic to receive the rare cricket star from this football country, writes Sandeep Dwivedi in the Indian Express.
The jovial Eranakulum Cricket Association president KP Satish makes an interesting observation about the blooming of a cricket star in the football fertile land. “Sreesanth is like chicken biryani in a brahmin restaurant,” he says as he points to the changing cricket scene in the state.
R Kaushik has some thoughts in the Deccan Herald:
The Hindustan Times' Akshay Sawai meets those behind Sreesanth's rise.
While Sreesanth jets around the cricketing world making those theatrical appeals to the umpire, his people back home make pleas to the great umpire up above. Said Dr Joshi Dev, his neighbour who had accompanied his parents to the temple on Sunday, “We had a big puja here before the World Cup in the West Indies. India did not even reach the second round then. But our prayers have been answered now.”
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo