{"id":9638,"date":"2008-10-20T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/monty-still-has-the-hunger\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:08:51","slug":"monty-still-has-the-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/monty-still-has-the-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monty still has the hunger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>England coach Peter Moores defends spinner<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"287\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/MontyPanesarSriLanka_180x232.jpg\"\/>ENGLAND coach Peter Moores has jumped to the defence of spinner Monty Panesar ahead of his club stint in Sri Lanka next month.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 26-year-old is set to play club cricket in Sri Lanka in a bid to sharpen his game ahead of England\u2019s winter tour of India. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Panesar has been included in the squad but a recent dip in form has led to questions over his place in the team. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Australia\u2019s Shane Warne was particularly scathing in his criticism of Panesar saying he would be \u201ctaken apart\u201d in next summer\u2019s Ashes series against Australia if he continued to perform the way he has. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But Moore believes Monty can become a better player over time. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cMonty\u2019s record stands up pretty well against people like Anil Kumble,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThey\u2019ve taken wickets at a rate above 30 \u2013 and as they\u2019ve got better, they\u2019ve slowly brought that figure down. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWith experience they become cleverer, wiser and more patient. Monty is on that journey and he will do that bowling in Sri Lanka. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cMonty\u2019s enthusiasm is a massive gift because it gives him energy. That allows him to impose himself on opposition batsmen. The fact he wants to go away for a month before he plays the Test series allows him to impose himself in the opposition batsmen.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;They are very good players of spin in Sri Lanka and he will learn a lot. It will also help him get ready for the Test matches because it&#8217;s such a short series.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>England will play seven ODIs and two Test matches against India before heading to the Caribbean for a four-Test series against West Indies. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England coach Peter Moores defends spinner ENGLAND coach Peter Moores has jumped to the defence of spinner Monty Panesar ahead of his club stint in Sri Lanka next month. &#13; The 26-year-old is set to play club cricket in Sri Lanka in a bid to sharpen his game ahead of England\u2019s winter tour of India. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}