"Sometimes", said John Arlott,"I think we are in danger of taking sport too seriously, and life not seriously enough". S Sreesanth can probably benefit from the great commentator's wisdom - that is if he takes time off from his theatrics.

The medium-pacer's boorish conduct in the last game against Australia at Kochi isn't an isolated incident.

In fact, his on-field eccentricity has overshadowed whatever little he has achieved in his short career so far and there is a lurking danger that he might end up on a psychiatrist's table if not in the casualty ward of a hospital.