A Brief, Painful History Of Sreesanth's Political Career [10 Second Read]

You might have missed this amidst all the high profile candidates fighting the elections in TN, Kerala, WB and Assam but there was another, more significant?setback today - this time a decisive one. Former Indian speedster S Sreesanth's who had been announced as BJP's candidate from Thiruvananthpuram?this March is currently fourth from the seat. A win at this juncture would be equivalent to expecting him to defend a score of 22 runs in the last over of an IPL match - basically it would need a miracle of gigantic proportions.

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The 33-year-old spent a huge amount of time over the last couple of months claiming this would be the time BJP would make a decisive entry into Kerala (and it did too). But it was about 70 seats less than what Sreesanth had predicted yesterday (he predicted 71 seats, BJP ended up with 1 - it's first ever seat in the State).

He also took a lot of selfies. Very frequent, annoying selfies with voters. Look at the men on the right, they don't even give a damn.

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Sreesanth hoped to use politics to get back to cricket, he announced he would be the first MLA to play for India. Ummm yeah this happened.

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Just in case you need a refresher course on his career, his career went downhill after he was arrested in the IPL spot-fixing scandal in 2013. The BCCI handed him a life-ban. Last year, Delhi High Court acquitted him of all charges, but the ban is yet to be overturned.

Here's what Twitter had to say about his political performance: