Monty Panesar has previously appeared in 50 Tests, 26 one-day matches and a T20 international, as well as taking 709 first-class wickets during his professional career.<\/p>\n
“I see someone like James Anderson, you know, playing for Lancashire and [for me] it’s that motivation of thinking, I can still play club cricket.<\/p>\n
“I love the game, bowling and interacting with the club, talking about cricket at a grassroot level,” he said.<\/p>\n
Pelsall, based at the village’s cricket and sports club near Walsall, currently play in the South Staffordshire Premier League, in which they finished eighth last summer.<\/p>\n
The current version of the cricket club was formed in 1919 with the amalgamation of the Pelsall Albion and Pelsall Wesley teams.<\/p>\n
A usual turnout for matches played are about 20 people, but over 100 spectators turned up to see the star player hit the field.<\/p>\n
“When I took the first wicket everyone was clapping and some of the guys said they’d like to see the ‘Monty celebration’.<\/p>\n
“I told everyone I’m here for my expert role, I’m a specialist who can’t bat and can’t field, so if anybody wants advice on that I’m here to help,” he joked.<\/p>\n
Despite his accolades, Panesar has enjoyed getting stuck in with being part of a village cricket club.<\/p>\n
“I really enjoyed my first week. I told the groundsman, when it rains I’ll be there helping out with the covers.<\/p>\n
“All the sort of club stuff that we do I love it, I love being part of a cricket club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monty Panesar has previously appeared in 50 Tests, 26 one-day matches and a T20 international, as well as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542934","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=542934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}