Sreesanth in yet another controversy, speedster denies allegation

S Sreesanth found himself in another controversy on Wednesday when a co-passenger in a Bangalore-Delhi flight alleged that the pacer had behaved brashly on the aircraft, says a report in The DNA.

It is learnt that the mercurial pacer, who recently underwent a couple of surgeries (toes) in Europe, was allotted an emergency exit seat by a check-in counter executive at the Bangalore airport. However, the in-flight attendant requested him to vacate the seat, saying he was injured. Sreesanth then informed the attendant that he’d not availed of any special facility like wheelchair service and hence couldn’t be denied the seat. ?A co-passenger was quoted as saying the cricketer misbehaved with the attendant and used abusive language. Sreesanth refuted the allegations and claimed he did nothing wrong, says the report.

However Sreesanth, when asked by a news channel, refused the allegations against him and claimed that he was at his best behaviour. He said that when he was asked to vacate the seat he politely replied that "29A is my seat so why should I vacate?" He also claims that he has not used any abusive languages during the conversation.

To tackle the problem of overage menace, the Board or Control for Cricket in India has sought to bring in changes to existing rules, says a report in The Times Of India.

At the BCCI’s working committee meeting in Chennai last month, it was decided that the Board would implement a standard procedure for age verification. The committee decided on May 12 that it would adopt the Tanner-Whitehouse3 (TW3) method of testing, following a recommendation from its junior committee. This, incidentally, is the method used by the Asian Cricket Council as well. Though BCCI has been conducting bone tests for a while now, officials are now convinced that the TW3 method of bone tests would serve the purpose better.