Former England spin bowler Monty Panesar has signed to play for West Midlands village side Pelsall this summer. <\/p>\n
The 43-year-old appeared in 50 Tests, 26 one-dayers and a T20 international and took 709 first-class wickets during his professional career.<\/p>\n
“Obviously we are delighted to get Monty to Pelsall, he will give us some extra quality on the pitch and hopefully even more know-how off the pitch,” said first XI captain Danny Pennell.<\/p>\n
“For a club our size, it’s a major coup for us and we can’t wait to see him in Pelsall colours next weekend at home to Wombourne.”<\/p>\n
Luton-born Panesar began and ended his career with Northamptonshire, either side of spells with Sussex and Essex.<\/p>\n
He made his England debut against India in 2006 and his last Test came seven years later in an eight-wicket defeat by Australia in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Last year he played for an England Masters team in a six-team International Masters League in India, taking four wickets in five games.<\/p>\n
Pelsall play in the South Staffordshire Premier League in which they finished eighth last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England spin bowler Monty Panesar has signed to play for West Midlands village side Pelsall this summer.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-529098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}