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Delighted with Monty Panesar’s match-winning performance in the second Test of the four-match series against India at Mumbai, Nasser Hussain, the former England captain, has expressed that the left-arm spinner should play more regularly
in the Test team.
The 30-year-old cricketer was left-out of the playing-11 for the first Test of the series at Ahmedabad, much to the surprise of many former cricketers, who believed that the player from Luton should have been preferred over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samit-Patel-c2426,
the all-rounder.
England lost the first match by a comprehensive margin of nine wickets, which prompted the team management to included Panesar in the team for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Test.
The left-arm spinner rose to the occasion and bowled out of his skin in the match, picking up 11 wickets to break the back of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s batting and helping his side square the series.
Hussain is extremely impressed by the left-armer’s performance, who bowled to his strengths and tasted success as a result. The former captain said that Panesar bowled exceptionally well against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, dismissing him in both
the innings.
“Panesar was quite brilliant in this second Test. We had all the talk about whether he should have more variations or bowl at differing paces but in this game he did what he does best: bowl quickly and get the ball to spin at pace,”
said the former captain. “Some of the deliveries he bowled to Sachin Tendulkar in particular were remarkable.”
Since making his international debut for England in 2006, the left-arm spinner has so far played 43 Tests, 26 One Day Internationals and a T20 for the Poms, picking up almost 180 wickets at the highest stage of the game.
Since the emergence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 but the former captain is of the opinion that Panesar should be played consistently unless or until the conditions are not in favour
of spin bowling.
“In recent times http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Dermott-Monteith-c65601 has only played when it has been blindingly obvious that he should, but perhaps England need to change their mindset and play him unless it is blindingly obvious that he should not,” he added.
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