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 Nottingham,
August 1: Admitting that he was embarassed by his on-field
behaviour during the second cricket Test against England at
Trent Bridge, paceman S Sreesanth said he wanted to apologise to
England captain Michael Vaughan for the body barge incident. "To
be honest, I'm embarrassed by what I did and I think I will have
to change," Sreesanth said. "I want to say sorry for that (the
Vaughan incident) but no one should question my commitment,"
said Sreesanth, who was fined 50 per cent of his match fee for
the incident.
"I am thankful to Rahul bhai (Dravid) for
showing faith in me. He was upset with a few things, but after
the game he came and told me when we were celebrating in the
dressing room, 'Sree, after all this, after all the explanations
I had to give for you, I still love you and want you to do
well,'" Sreesanth told ESPN. The Kerala bowler, who has changed
his look with a crew haircut, said he did a few unwanted things
during the second Test out of sheer frustration and wanted to
make amends for that.
"Frankly, that was the worst part, may be
that's the reason I did a few silly things like coming around
the wicket to batsmen when I should have continued bowling the
basic stuff. "I was really feeling sad that I haven't
contributed. I was trying too many things and last two nights of
the Test match slept clutching my India cap thinking it will get
me luck," said the 24-year old, who has received a lot of flak
in the British media for barging into Vaughan. However,
Sreesanth said he did not hurl the beamer at Kevin Pietersen on
purpose. "Nothing is more dear to me than the game (cricket)
itself and I swear by this game that I was attempting a yorker
but my wrist position went horribly wrong and it went as a
beamer.
"See, I don't stride to the wicket, I sprint.
Ask any cricketer and he will tell you that it is impossible to
bowl a beamer with a run up like mine. I had bowled two
deliveries on a good length and was trying to bowl a yorker
which went horribly wrong," he said. Sreesanth said he loved to
play his game hard and a few errors could have emerged out of
that. "Look, I'm a proud Indian and play the game hard. I'm
still new to international cricket and can have an odd slip but
that doesn't mean I'm not putting that extra effort. "In fact, I
was happy that I kept coming hard at the batsmen all day long
but as an Indian I wear my heart on the cuff not even on the
sleeve." Sreesanth, who has an interesting habit of writing
letters to God before every game, said that he had hoped to play
a crucial role in India's Trent Bridge victory.
"Yes, I did write a letter to God before the
fourth day of the Test. I wrote in that, 'Tomorrow I will win
the Test match for my country. I will be the one, God please
help me.' But it didn't go that way. Well, may be I didn't write
my name in the end and God thought it came from Zaheer bhai," he
said. (Agencies)
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