Monty Panesar (Page 30 of 38)

interesting piece. thanks kim-in-the-sun.

"As per the agreement before he came, his is a four-day focus. He's helping us in the nets during our one-day game, and helping develop our young spinners. There has been a lot of good banter in the dressing room."

what he really means is that  monty  doesn't get into their one day sides.

if he is really being paid serious money by sussex, we need  him to give value and that means playing in all codes.   i suppose.

i wonder what they are paying him in sa compared to what we are down for?

it will be interesting to see how many wickets he takes for us compared to chawla for slurrey. hopefully robbo and yardy have put their (ok, our) money on the winner !!!

PS  as an aside but still on spinners, i presume the tahir who was picked for south africa is the former hampshire leggie? very good bowler even if possibly just short of top international class.

Why is it obvious that Beer will play the one-day games - dont see that as obvious at all

Northants got to 20/20 finals day with him in the team playing a part, so not sure he would be out of one-day team - is his batting actually as bad as everyone is saying, by the way.

Having said that, I will be disappointed if Beer doesnt get a reaonable amount of games this season

We have three spinners and their form will decide what games they participate in surely?

Last edited by FiveMartlets (10-01-2010 17:26:16)

Last season Robbo made the point that with the work load involved in the CC and one day games, he needed to spread it over a full squad. I see no reason for it to be any different this season so agree with S&F's view for the start of the season at least, though Sweaty's view also holds as the season progresses or we come in sight of a trophy.

If we do use a settled one day side then this time around we should not look to 'strengthen' it with returning internationals for one match or hopefully the final. Let the guys who get us there get the reward.

Unlikely to happen, though, IM. I've generally not agreed with this view, either, always thinking 'of course we play matt, he's international class etc', but the strategy never seems to work, so I'm swaying

funnily enough, a lot of the Board also moan when the England hierarchy refuse to release Matt and Luke to us

The Lions don't play their last two games in the supersport series (the SA 3 day competion) until March. As Monty hasn't featured in their one day side of late, is he going to stay there for two months not playing any cricket?

he was indeed :

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/conte … 43579.html

Gordon Parson's has been watching him in SA, says he has a Doosra but not sure if it's ready to be used in the middle yet.

One of the great arts to master for a spinner is how quickly you should bowl at on each wicket you come across - this was one of the little maestro Mushy's great strengths, and I would maintain is one of Montys weaknesses - so some progress in this direction would be good to see

that had crossed my mind over the past few months - he was never quite the same again after mushy got hold of him. 

maybe mushy has made amends  by getting him a long and lucrative contract with sussex?