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    Panesar gives glimpse of full Monty

    By Will 2 years ago, at the start of March Leave a comment on this post

    Now how about that for a headline? Monty Panesar is a tabloid sub-editor’s dream! Anyway, I’d like to agree wholeheartedly with Jag who was delighted to see an English left-armer bowl around the wicket. I know Ashley Giles gets a lot of stick, some of it undeserved, but even he cannot deny that his over-the-wicket tactics have been painfully dull to watch.

    I didn’t see a lot of Panesar today. However, what immediately struck me was the similarity between Daniel Vettori. In the piece I wrote for Cricinfo on Monty, Mark Ramprakash said we [England] should be looking to find someone of Vettori’s ability. While it’s too early to suggest Panesar has the same ability - incidentally, he certainly doesn’t have the same talent with the bat which Vettori possesses - he did well today, and looks a decent prospect. It’ll be really fascinating to watch his progression.

    Maybe one day he’ll be / reveal the full Monty! (sorry, again)

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    6 Responses to “Panesar gives glimpse of full Monty”

  • Jess wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 7.36 pm

    *groan*

    That pun is even worse than some my ex-officemate used to come up with - and there’s a very good reason why we’re no longer officemates.

    Anyway, I was listening today and it was either Aggers or Vic Marks who made exactly the same Monty/Vettori comparison…something about ‘great minds’ and ‘fools’, perhaps ;)

  • Will wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 7.43 pm

    Ah, good stuff. Well he’s a pretty good role-model, Vettori. Fine cricketer.

  • Zainub - Zany wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 8.37 pm

    Any idea of what his “official” nick name might be, Will?

  • Will wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 8.40 pm

    Hrm…well I heard England shouting “Bowling Monty!” today, so I think that’s about as inventive as cricket sides get these days :(

  • Zainub - Zany wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 8.48 pm

    How boring! Guess for the moment I’ll keep calling him Monty, after Amit’s legendary The Adventures of Ponty Manesar series, hillarious stuff:

    2nd Edition:
    http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/2006/02/further-adventures-of-ponty-manesar.html
    1st Edition: http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/2006/02/adventures-of-ponty-manesar.html

  • Zainub - Zany wrote:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 8.51 pm

    errrr, Monty in the first line should have been Ponty ….grrr

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