"black ""patka"" (a smaller version of the full Sikh turban) while playing and training. Many of his fans have emulated him by wearing patkas and fake beards while watching him play. When first selected for England he was widely perceived as being a particularly inept batsman and fielder, which resulted in much ironic cheering; the TMS commentator Henry Blofeld once accidentally referred to him as Monty Python. Panesar lost his place in the England test team, being replaced by Graeme Swann and losing his central contract. However, his form improved with Sussex County Cricket Club, and so he was recalled"
"seen at matches. Panesar was educated at St. Matthew's Infant and Junior Schools and Stopsley High School, Luton. For Sixth Form, he studied at Bedford Modern School. He also has a degree in computer science from Loughborough University. Panesar is primarily a left-arm finger spin bowler. Early in his career, former England head coach Duncan Fletcher described him as ""the best finger spinner in the world"". Over the years, Panesar has acquired many nicknames. He is most commonly known simply as Monty, however other nicknames have included ""The Python"" (a reference to Monty Python), ""The Sikh of Tweak"" (probably a"
"Monty Panesar Mudhsuden Singh Panesar (born 25 April 1982), known as Monty Panesar, is an English international cricketer who is currently unattached to any County. A left-arm spinner, Panesar made his Test cricket debut in 2006 against India in Nagpur and One Day International debut for England in 2007. In English County cricket, he last played for Northamptonshire in 2016, and has previously played for Northamptonshire until 2009, Sussex from 2010–2013 and Essex from 2013-2015, He has also played for the Lions in South Africa. Born in Luton to Indian parents, Panesar is a Sikh, and so he wears a"
"Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard. On 27 August 2017 at Headingley while commentating on the second Test between England and the West Indies on BBC Test Match Special Mohammed delighted radio audiences by singing a calypso by Lord Relator about Sunil Gavaskar, written after the Indian tour of the West Indies in 1970–71. Fazeer Mohammed Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian cricket commentator and journalist. Mohammed has commentated since 1987, and is best known for his commentary on the West Indies cricket team. In December 2015, Mohammed was banned from speaking to West Indies players prior to the Boxing Day Test."
"drink alcohol, combined with his poor form, the incident contributed to his leaving Sussex and being loaned to Essex. After he rejoined Northamptonshire in 2016, Panesar opened up about the mental illness that he had been suffering, speaking in the media about his acceptance to use medication to help him cope with feelings of paranoia and anxiety that came after a loss of confidence. Monty Panesar Mudhsuden Singh Panesar (born 25 April 1982), known as Monty Panesar, is an English international cricketer who is currently unattached to any County. A left-arm spinner, Panesar made his Test cricket debut in 2006"
"Fazeer Mohammed Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian cricket commentator and journalist. Mohammed has commentated since 1987, and is best known for his commentary on the West Indies cricket team. In December 2015, Mohammed was banned from speaking to West Indies players prior to the Boxing Day Test. Mohammed is a Trinidadian commentator who is generally considered an objective commentator. He began commentating in 1987, and has commentated in the West Indies, including for Pearl Radio station alongside Curtly Ambrose, and the Regional Super50 tournament for ESPN, and also tour series matches abroad. He has been called ""the successor [of Tony"
"between them. After the English cricket team regained the Ashes for the first time in sixteen years, Andrew Flintoff won the award again in 2005, this time unshared, to go with his BBC Sports Personality of the Year award and his MBE. ""The Lord of the Rings"" director Peter Jackson came second, while former joint-winner Paul Mackney was pushed into third. England's loss of the Ashes the following year did not prevent the 2006 award going to a cricketer for the third year running; this time to England spin-bowler Monty Panesar, who narrowly won with 30 percent of the vote."
"that is beyond many modern broadcasters."" Cozier was known for his knowledge of statistics; during a Marylebone Cricket Club tour in 1967, Brian Johnston played a practical joke on him by pretending that they were on air and asking him to recite the exact bowling figures and birthdays of the entire West Indies team, which he was naturally unable to do. Cozier was specifically requested by Kerry Packer to be one of the commentators for the World Series Cricket; Cozier believed that the general public supported the series, and during a commentary stint in the series, he sang ""Blue Moon""."
"the Year in the 1953 edition of ""Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"". His talent, skill and popularity were such that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson jokingly described him as the ""greatest living Yorkshireman"". Even so, Trueman was omitted from numerous England teams because he was frequently in conflict with the cricket establishment which he often criticised for its perceived ""snobbishness"" and hypocrisy. After he retired from playing, he became a media personality through his work in television and as an outspoken radio commentator and summariser for the BBC, mainly working on ""Test Match Special"". He was awarded the OBE in the 1989"
"to England in 1974 and New Zealand in 1978–79. Omar Kureishi Omar Kureishi (1928 – 14 March 2005) was a distinguished Pakistani writer. He had also worked in the advertising, aviation and journalism industry, writing for many newspapers, including ""Dawn"", ""The Pakistan Times"", ""Morning News"" and ""The Guardian"", London. He is best known for his cricket writings and commentary but he was also a keen observer of political and social developments and wrote about them, in his own words, not with fury, but certainly with ""exasperation and anger"". He died on Monday, 14 March 2005, at the age of 77,"
"Sanjeeb Mukherjee Sanjeeb Mukherjee is an Indian news anchor and journalist, presently the Cricket Editor of CNN-News18 news channel. He has over a decade long experience in the industry having made a mark for himself in investigative journalism. Mukherjea has reported multiple path breaking stories including the story he broke in 2010 on the Indian Premier League controversy surrounding the ouster of former IPL boss Lalit Modi and the subsequent resignation of Shashi Tharoor, a Member of Parliament. He hosts CNN-News18's award-winning flagship football show 'The Beautiful Game', as well as the channel's widely watched cricket show 'Kings of Cricket'[3]."
"Cozier] as the voice rights-holder in and of the West Indies"". Mohammed has written for the ""Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"", including the 1997–98 West Indies tour of Pakistan, which he described as ""an unqualified disaster"", and the 1999–2000 return series, in which the West Indies won the third Test by one wicket. He has also written for ESPNcricinfo. After Brian Lara scored 400* in a 2003–04 Test against England, Mohammed echoed Lara's words that the achievement was less important than Lara's 375 against England in 1994, since the West Indies lost the series. From 2007 to 2010, he worked for the"
"honour the first BCCI secretary Anthony de Mello. On the day of the memorial lecture's institution, the BCCI said in a press release, The inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was delivered by former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar at the Taj Coromandel hotel in Chennai on 20 February 2013. In his lecture Gavaskar spoke at length about Mr Pataudi. He praised him for improving Indian cricket, saying, ""His adventurous style of play, his charisma, and his fondness for a practical joke changed how the game was played and perceived in the country."" Several Indian and Australian cricketers who were"
"Henry Blofeld Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, OBE (born 23 September 1939) nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is a retired English sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for ""Test Match Special"" on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has authored eight books to date. Blofeld's family were landowners at Hoveton in Norfolk and he was the youngest of three siblings. His elder"
"with renowned cricketers such as Sunil Gavaskar, Garry Sobers, Wesley Hall, Glenn Turner, Clive Lloyd and Alvin Kallicharan. Ravi Chaturvedi Ravi Chaturvedi is an Indian sports commentator and author of twenty three books on cricket, including ""World Cup Cricket: A Compendium"", known to be first Indian sports commentator in Hindi. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. Ravi Chaturvedi hails from Delhi and is a former faculty member of Zoology for forty years at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. In 1960, the Government of India"
"if sometimes controversial commentator, both on TV and in print. He also served as an advisor to the India national cricket team during the home series against Australia in 2004. He was the Chairman of the ICC cricket committee until the time he was forced to choose between commenting and being on the committee. He left the committee to continue his career as a broadcaster. The inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was given by Gavaskar on 20 February 2013 at Taj Coromandel, Chennai. In 2003, he became the first and till now the only Indian to have delivered"
"Don Mosey Don Mosey (4 October 1924 – 11 August 1999) was a sports journalist and radio producer, best remembered for his lengthy tenure as a cricket commentator on BBC's Test Match Special (TMS), which he joined in 1974 and left in 1991. He was nicknamed 'the Alderman' by fellow commentator Brian Johnston, in recognition of his somewhat mayoral bearing in the box; Mosey entitled one autobiographical book ""The Alderman's Tale"". He was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1924, completed wartime service in the RAF and joined the ""Craven Herald"" as a journalist, going on to work for the ""Daily"
"in the 2013–14 Ashes though he has not announced retirement since. In January 2017, Panesar was recruited by Cricket Australia as a spin-bowling consultant for the tour of India, after spending his winter as a club cricketer in Sydney. Panesar's father, Paramjit Singh, is an architect and real estate developer, who, along with Panesar's mother Gursharan Kaur, migrated from Punjab, India to Luton in England in 1979, where they continue to live, and where Monty Panesar was born. Panesar has a younger brother, Isher Singh Panesar, and sister, Charanjit Kaur Panesar. Panesar is a Luton Town fan and is often"
"with Leila McKinnon. McGuire and McKinnon's commentary of the Olympic opening ceremony was widely criticised in newspapers and on Twitter. Errors including spoilers before surprise appearances, ill-timed remarks, reference to the Peter Pan character Captain Hook as Captain Cook, and Abraham Lincoln as a prime minister of the United Kingdom. The McGuire and McKinnon commentary was not used for Foxtel's coverage of the opening ceremony. On Friday 24 May 2013, during a match at the MCG, a 13-year-old Collingwood fan racially vilified Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes by referring to him as an ""ape"", following which McGuire apologised to Goodes"
"highest score of 76. He took two Test wickets for the loss of 140 runs. He captained an MCC ""A"" side in Pakistan in 1955-56. He had been in the same Oxford side in 1949 as his opposing captain, Abdul Hafeez Kardar. He upset Kardar by joking that his nickname at Oxford, ""the Mystic of the East"", had been mistranslated as ""the Mistake of the East"". During the third unofficial Test at Peshawar, Carr and two other England players carried out a prank on the umpire Idris Baig, who had given several decisions that the England side regarded as poor,"
"Around the World"" (which deal with his experiences as a county cricketer during and between cricket seasons), ""Jargonbusting"" (a guide to cricket terminology) and ""Morning Everyone: An Ashes Odyssey"". He is perhaps best known for his work as The Analyst on Channel 4's cricket coverage (from 1999 to 2005), winning the Royal Television Society's Sports pundit of the Year award in 2002, where he spent matches in a VT trailer, watching replays and drawing viewers' attention to particular details. Channel 4's cricket coverage won 28 awards in its seven-year span, including six Baftas. He was a commentator/analyst on Cricket on"
"racing commentator Ken Callander. Other figures from Australian culture are also parodied. They include media magnate and Channel Nine owner Kerry Packer, former Prime Minister John Howard, journalist Mike Munro, music journalist Andrew G and talkback radio personality Alan Jones. Productions tend to focus on two themes: the voices and personalities of the commentators themselves, and parodies of athletes' names. This includes both humorous modifications of real-life players, as well as purely fictional names. Virtually all sports and teams are subject to this, except for the Australian cricket team. Names of Indian cricket team and Pakistani cricket team are the"
"Presently, Roshan has been regarded as one of the fewest international cricket commentators from Sri Lanka along with Russel Arnold and Ranjit Fernando. He is working as an international cricket commentator in Test Match Special, a British radio programme covering about England related cricket matches and for the Ten Sports Network (now known as Sony Ten Network) from 2010 mainly related to Sri Lankan cricket matches. In 2016, he was named the ""Wisden Cricket Personality of the Month"" for his commentary services. Roshan Abeysinghe is a professional marketing personality apart from being a cricket commentator. Roshan Abeysinghe Lincoln Clement Roshan"
"England, this time to South Africa, in favour of the more conservative pick of Gareth Batty. After taking 29 Championship wickets in 2005, Keedy suffered a finger injury on his spinning finger which ruled him out for the final month of the season. The injury likely cost Keedy a place on England's tour to Pakistan and India. Until recently, many observers believed the main reason that Keedy had never played for the national team is his lack of batting talent and poor fielding qualities. Despite this, left-arm orthodox spinner Monty Panesar, who is also not renowned for his batting or"
"website. International Cricket Captain III is also available for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. ""International Cricket Captain 2008"" is a cricket video game, the 2008 edition of the ""International Cricket Captain"" series. It features, in its United Kingdom release, England's Monty Panesar. It contains all current cricket players from first class cricket, Test cricket, List-A and One Day International teams, and can be played in a career mode indefinitely, with repeating domestic and international fixtures generated for each year, along with youth players continually added and other players retiring to enable an open-ended career as coach of a national"
"death, that distinction passed to Reg Simpson. Test debut: vs India, Lord's, Middlesex, 1946<br> Last Test: vs South Africa, Old Trafford, Manchester, 1955 In the 1980s UK TV sitcom ""Chance in a Million"", the main character Tom Chance (played by Simon Callow) has a fascination with Bedser and one of his prized possessions is a cricket bat autographed by him. In the episode ""Honour Thy Father And Thy Mother"" (17 September 1984), the bat is mauled by a dog off-screen, much to Chance's annoyance. Alec Bedser Sir Alec Victor Bedser (4 July 1918 – 4 April 2010) was a professional"
"was given some credit for responding to criticism from England coach Duncan Fletcher. Despite his performances in the Test arena against Pakistan in the summer of 2006, Panesar was overlooked for the 30 man ODI squad for the 2006 ICC Champion's Trophy in India. The likelihood of Panesar playing against Australia in the 2006–07 Ashes series led to media commentary by some Australian players, who indicated that they would take an aggressive approach towards him. Australian captain Ricky Ponting said, ""We'll try to make some sort of impact on him early on, and we won't let him get on top."
"Australians for reporting Harbhajan, despite being known for their sledging and despite a rumoured pre-series agreement not to refer to Symonds, Australia's only dark skinned player, using the word ""monkey"" as Indian cricket fans had done in their recent home series. Akram further attacked them by calling them the ""worst sledgers"" in the world and labeling them as ""cry babies"": Indian officials further went on to claim that because ""monkey"" was not a derogatory word in India it was acceptable. However, Rashid Latif, a former Pakistani cricketer who was accused of being a racist to Adam Gilchrist during the 2003"
"including cricket fans John Major, David Cameron, who was interviewed twice, once as the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition, and Theresa May. At the end of each test match, the commentators vote for their favourite special moment in the match, and the player involved wins a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne. Examples include a personal milestone for a player, such as a century or five-wicket haul, a dramatic celebration, or a spectacular piece of fielding, wicket or shot. In 2008 Mike Selvey was replaced as a ""TMS"" summariser as new producer Adam Mountford brought in names like Phil Tufnell"
"had a fan following of his own and served the game with distinction."" The interim chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Najam Sethi, said that ""he was an informed, easygoing and affable personality; his death will be widely mourned by the journalist and broadcast community as well as the cricketing fraternity across the country"". Munir Hussain (commentator) Munir Hussain (29 November 1929 – 29 July 2013) was a cricket commentator, administrator, and journalist from Pakistan who also played a first-class cricket match for Kalat in the 1969–70 season. He was the first to introduce Urdu commentary to cricket, and was"
"has often attracted controversy in his career as a match referee. He refereed the forfeited Oval Test of August 2006 when Pakistan refused to take the field after tea in protest at the umpires’ decision to penalise them for ball tampering. During the Second Test, 2007–08 Border–Gavaskar Trophy, Procter banned Harbhajan Singh for three matches on charges of racism. This decision was later overturned by Justice Hansen, who found Andrew Symonds had instigated the confrontation and there was no credible witness (including Symonds himself) who could testify Harbhajan had used the word ""monkey"". Justice Hansen also questioned Clarke's credibility as"
"saying, ""I follow Sikhism, and maybe I’ve channelled the discipline that religion creates into my cricket. There's discipline with any religion, and you can take it into a game or into anything else"". Panesar has uncut hair and a full length beard, which is a fundamental part of the Sikh identity and way of life. He won the 2006 Beard of the Year competition run by the Beard Liberation Front. In August 2013 Panesar was fined after he urinated on a doorman following his ejection from a Brighton club. Having admitted that he had broken the Sikh vow not to"
"wrote simply, well, and with courtesy and knowledge. A good man and a good friend"". Alfred Pullin Alfred William Pullin, known by the pseudonym Old Ebor (30 July 1860 – 23 June 1934), was a British sports journalist who wrote primarily about rugby union and cricket. He wrote mainly for British newspapers the ""Yorkshire Post"" and the ""Yorkshire Evening Post"". Considered by critics to be one of the greatest authorities in the country on his two sports, he wrote a daily column using his pseudonym ""Old Ebor"" for 40 years. Most often associated with his reporting on Yorkshire County Cricket"