Is Monty Panesar a bit thick?

He always struck me as being a quiet, intelligent sort of guy, but the way he appeals for LBW's when the ball has pitched 2 feet outside leg stump, and the fact that he didn't know that he'd caught Laxman in the first innings suggests that there's a few brain cells missing.

Also, his bowling hasn't improved since his debut(if anything it's regressed) and his batting has gone nowhere. Only his fielding would appear to have improved since his test debut almost 3 years ago.

Panesar is being well out-bowled by Swan it seems . . . and yes, Montay is thick . . .

He always struck me as being a quiet, intelligent sort of guy, but the way he appeals for LBW's when the ball has pitched 2 feet outside leg stump...suggests that there's a few brain cells missing.

No, it suggests he's a cheat. He's been doing that for years.

I thought this article from The Guardian was interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/24/india-england-tour-diary

Particularly this bit . . .

Panesar, incidentally, while not required by England, has spent some of
his free time recently working with his girlfriend behind the counter
of a London chemist. At least we can safely assume that he has had time
to stock up on the Immodium tablets.

'Thank you, come again'.

Lay off The Montster. He's still Legend.

[thcream]Aye, not thick, Thikh![/thcream]

I scream in "Pro" Test.

Donkeys and declaration slogs keep boosting his figures whilst his effective contribution is terrible. I think he should just go and rot in county cricket . . . or go and work in a chemist.

Demelza wrote:Donkeys and declaration slogs keep boosting his figures whilst his effective contribution is terrible. I think he should just go and rot in county cricket . . . or go and work in a chemist.

Is he Tesco thick?

Rich and thick and full of clots? - e should goo an join the Debn Gonzervadivvs.

Not that thought of thcream.

I'll thcream and thcream until I make mythelf thick.

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Invader Zim wrote:

He always struck me as being a quiet, intelligent sort of guy, but the way he appeals for LBW's when the ball has pitched 2 feet outside leg stump...suggests that there's a few brain cells missing.

No, it suggests he's a cheat. He's been doing that for years.

Bit like Warne then.

What gets on my moobs is his run, skip & hop when he hasn't even appealed to the umpire.

An appropriate English reaction to the match. Still ... Strauss and Swann, there's some positives there.

And it might leave the door open for Vaughany.

Biggest postitive of the lot.

EDIT: I meant plain positive, not tit. Honest.

That is an ugly thought. Surely not.

Geraintit is limbering up too.

How quickly Test matches can swing. Weren't there some gloating here only a day or so back that England's tour of India was 'already' better than Australia's?

... chicken recount

Funnily enough, I thought the best part of three days weren't too bad.

lardbucket wrote:How quickly Test matches can swing. Weren't there some gloating here only a day or so back that England's tour of India was 'already' better than Australia's?

... chicken recount

Nope. That was planetpakman dragging that thread up. And some of us pointed out that the minute Aus lost the series 2-0, England had a better chance of beating India.

I must have mis-read what followed.

Leave Ready out of this. ...

Um, didn't SA tour there recently?