Monty Panesar to live in Sri Lanka for a bit
England have been taking a more individual approach to player development in recent times and we’re all in favour.
Monty Panesar’s going to spend some time playing for the Bloomfield club in Colombo. He’ll get more experience of bowling in subcontinental conditions, but more importantly he’ll be dumped there on his own and might turn into a better-rounded human being.
Now we’re not picking on Monty here. We’d never do that. All we mean is that the man’s 26 and has been led by the hand his entire career. He’s played for Northamptonshire, he’s played for England and that’s it. It’ll do him no end of good to play and live abroad and have the responsibility of being the big player in a side.
He’s not going to suddenly master the doosra or the carrom ball, but he might develop a slightly different attitude – one where he’s more self-sufficient.
Quite apart from that, it’s interesting that the ECB also consider this arrangement to be useful practice before the Test series in India. We thought warming up before Test series was passé. We thought modern cricketers could just turn up on the day and perform at their very best. That’s why they have these constricted tours, right?
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I think it would help if he had to cook and eat his own food as well.
Oh and kill it.
And murder a family and take their home.
You know, self reliant.
He will probably take the weak option and rent a house because he’s not a real man.
Maybe he’ll learn something really exotic, like an arm ball.
Maybe he wont play at all since our flicking retard adminstrocrats have decided tier a relegates wont get demoted and its opened up a whole big can of worms. 18 of the 20 clubs are planning to boycott the entire season if the decision stands.
it is as yet unclear if the boycott has anything to do with monty coming but you never know lol
he might even learn some sinhalese, to dodge potholes and avoid suicide bombers.
good on monty for coming down. im sure he’d love bloomfield. its where sanath plays/played.
I wonder if he’d bring me back some arrack?
If anyone knows him, please do ask.
Always with the arrack.
Now we’ve got a Pavlovian hangover.