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Panesar trying to keep Monty mania in check

June 13, 2007 00:00:00


MANCHESTER, June 12 (AFP): Monty Panesar has said keeping his emotions under control is proving one of the biggest challenges of his soaring Test career.
The 25-year-old left-arm spinner enhanced his growing reputation with 10 for 187 in England's 60-run third Test win against West Indies at Old Trafford.
That saw Panesar become the first England spinner since Phil Tufnell against Australia at The Oval in 1997 to take 10 wickets in a Test match.
Off the field Panesar, the first Sikh to play Test cricket for England, is as far removed in character from Tufnell as is possible to imagine, being a non-drinker and non-smoker, unlike the former Middlesex left-armer whose private life became the subject of some lurid newspaper headlines.

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