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<\/a><\/p>\nKCA said its show cause notice was not for Sreesanth showing support to Samson, but for \u201cmaking false and defamatory statements\u201d which was a violation of his contractual terms as the co-owner of the Kollam Sailors franchise. <\/p>\n
In its response to Sreesanth\u2019s comments, KCA brought up the infamous 2013 spot-fixing case against Sreesanth to say that it always supported players, even if they were in jail, which was a dig at the former India pacer.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen Sreesanth was in jail facing allegations in the infamous match-fixing scandal, KCA officials visited and supported him. Although the court quashed the criminal case, it is a fact that he has not been acquitted in the match-fixing case. In such a situation, there is no need for Sreesanth to take up the protection of other players,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
Sreesanth\u2019s response<\/strong><\/p>\nSreesanth had asked which international player KCA had managed to produce after Samson. At this, KCA slammed Sreesanth\u2019s \u201cignorance about Kerala cricket\u201d before listing out names of players: \u201cSajana Sajeevan, Minnumani, Asha Shobana, and junior players like Joshitha V.J. in the Under-19 World Cup winning team, Najla CMC in the Under-19 team, and Mohammed Enaan in the Under-19 Asia Cup team.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Sreesanth did not back down after the show-cause notice, instead lambasting KCA in an interview with Kerala media outlet Onmanorama where he questioned why KCA has been overlooking local players. \u201cThey (KCA) take players from other states to play for us. For what? Disrespectful to our Malayali cricketers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have just one player at international level, Sanju. Let\u2019s all support him,\u201d Sreesanth said. \u201cThe so-called KCA has not produced an international cricketer since Sanju. We have great players like Sachin, Nidheesh, Vishnu Vinod, and many others, but are they (KCA) pushing them to play at higher?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n
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Kerala eventually proceeded to qualify for their first-ever Ranji Trophy final in the 2024-25, finishing runners-up behind Vidarbha in an injured Samson\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n
Why was Sanju Samson dropped?<\/p>\n
Earlier, explaining why Samson was ignored for the VHT tournament, KCA secretary Vinod S Kumar had told The Indian Express<\/a>: \u201cSanju had sent an email stating that he would not be available for the camp. The team had a short camp in Wayanad without him. Naturally, we only considered those who were part of the sessions for selection. There has been no further discussion with him on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kerala Cricket Association on Friday suspended former India pacer S Sreesanth from all cricket-related activities of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,34402,34405,34404,34409,34408,34356,34407,34406,79,34401,34400,16,15,34403],"class_list":{"0":"post-68363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-kca-bans-sreesanth","10":"tag-kca-sanju-samson-father","11":"tag-kca-sanju-samson-issues","12":"tag-kca-vs-sanju-samson","13":"tag-kerala-cricket","14":"tag-kerala-cricket-news","15":"tag-samson-viswanath","16":"tag-sanju-samsons-father","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sreesanth-ban","19":"tag-sreesanth-kca","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-why-is-sreesanth-banned-by-kca"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114438223075657884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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