‘Get well later’

Symonds will have mixed feelings over Sreesanth’s absence in Australia

MUMBAI: Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has no immediate plan to send any ‘get well soon’ messages to India’s pace-bowler S Sreesanth who is injured and is scheduled to miss out the forthcoming tour of Australia.

“Andrew has no personal grudge with Sreesanth, and respects his youthful exuberance for the game. Sreesanth is sometimes a little over the top with his behaviour and any player can take exception to this but it is merely a healthy rivalry on the field. Off the field there is nothing more to say”, Symonds’s manager Matt Fearon said from Sydney.
 
“I am sure that Andrew and the Aussie team will be disappointed that he is not coming as all the Australian players are looking forward to a tough and fiery series this summer”, he further added.

The outspoken Sreesanth, who fired Australian emotions in the Twenty20 World Cup and in the recent one-day series in India, has been struggling with his shoulder injury.

The Indians have pledged to be aggressive in word and deed this summer, and 25-year-old Sreesanth was to be the leader of the pack. He had even predicted an Indian 4-0 victory against Australia.