Monty Panesar- Sikhs The Supreme

Though many Sikhs have represented England in hockey as well as in track and field, but Madhusudan Singh Panesar nick named Monty, a tall, long fingered and left-arm bowler is the first Sikh to represent England in Cricket, who was termed as "BEST SPINNER OF ENGLAND" by coach Mr. Kepler Wessels of Northamptonshire, the county once represented by Bishan Singh Bedi, now Monty played for, when Monty 23-year-old turbaned spinner, took 46 English county championship wickets at an average of 21.54. Though he made debut in first class cricket in 2001, he first time joined national squad of England in Jan 2006 when he was selected as its member in place of experienced Ashley Giles for the tour of India. During the tour, Rahul Dravid and a high profile wicket like master blaster Sachin Tendulkar became his first test victims.

No rookie has managed to capture public imagination like Panesar in the very short period of one year of his debut. The miraculous professional competence displayed by Monty The Mighty Sikhs / 178 in winning the matches one after one for England since his debut in 2006, made him a legend and darling of everyone, especially of Britishers and Australians. Soon applauses were showered on him by declaring him "ENGLAND'S LETHAL WEAPON", "MORE ATTACKING BOWLER AND WICKET TAKER THAN GILES", "BEST SPINNER OF ENGLAND", "BEST FINGER SPINNER OF THE WORLD", "MONTY–A MATCH WINNER" and so on. England's coach Ducan Fletcher, was fascinated by his classical action and attitude which had given his team "control" in a test in Nagpur against India. Talismanic all rounder of the yester years and former England captain Ian Botham said, in his Daily Mirror column in August 2006, "MONTY PANESAR IS THE ANSWER TO ENGLAND'S QUEST FOR A MATCH-WINNING SPINNER".

An expert on Athletics, Mr. AR Hemant wrote on March 8, 2007 in a column about Monty, "After a year in international cricket, let's take a look at the roles Panesar has played : England's leading spinner in the period, saviour of the dying breed of left-arm orthodox bowlers, a cult hero for Asian expats, a trigger-happy tail-end batsman. Remember him dropping MS Dhoni in Mumbai." ... "But already, there have been glimpses of Bishan Singh Bedi. Panesar could, perhaps, lay new benchmarks for aspiring left-arm spinners who haven't had great heroes to look upto. Ashley Giles and Daniel Vettori have been good, but they were never great."

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