Former England spinner Monty Panesar has hit again at Australia captain Steve Smith’s after he attacked his look on Movie star Mastermind, amid a disagreement on the eve of the primary Ashes Take a look at.
Panesar, who performed the final of his 50 Assessments in the course of the 2013-14 tour of Australia, had prompt that England ought to make Smith ‘really feel responsible’ about his function within the sandpaper scandal that price him the captaincy in 2018.
Smith was requested about Panesar’s feedback forward of the primary Take a look at in Perth, with the stand-in captain responding by mocking his look on the BBC’s Mastermind in 2019.
Panesar had registered some extent within the normal information spherical amid a group of more and more odd solutions.
‘I am going go off matter for a second right here,’ mentioned Smith. ‘Who within the room has seen Mastermind and Monty Panesar on that? Any of you?
‘Yeah. Nicely these of you which have, you may perceive the place I am coming from, and people of you have not, do your self a favour, as a result of it is fairly comical.
Monty Panesar has hit again at Steve Smith, pictured, after the Australia captain mocked his look on Mastermind
Monty Panesar solely acquired one level within the normal information spherical on Mastermind
‘Anybody who believes that Athens is in Germany, that is a begin, or Oliver Twist is a season of the yr and America is a metropolis, does not actually hassle me these feedback. Yeah, that is so far as I am going to go together with that one.’
Panesar doubled down on his criticism of Smith over the sandpaper scandal when requested about his response.
‘We have each made errors. I made mine on a quiz present, he made his on a cricket discipline,’ Panesar instructed BBC Radio 5Live.
‘The evening earlier than the Take a look at match he is watching my Mastermind clips, memorising the questions and the solutions and it seems like England are already in his head and I can rattle the Aussies from sitting on my couch.
‘It is opened up now for the England boys to actually go arduous at him, play a number of thoughts video games with him. It could possibly be that distinction the place he will get out early and abruptly they’re say “thanks Monty”.
‘I do know I am responsible of dangerous normal information, not ball tampering.
‘It is clearly nonetheless a delicate topic for him and I feel nobody thought he would reply on this manner. I suppose he is clearly making an attempt to deviate from the topic, however nonetheless fairly a delicate one for him.’
Smith was banned from worldwide and home cricket for 12 months again in 2018, with then vice captain David Warner receiving the identical sanction from Cricket Australia.
Smith was banned by Cricket Australia for 12 months and dropped as captain for ball tampering
His staff plotted to rub sandpaper on the ball throughout a Take a look at towards South Africa in Cape City
Panesar, seen celebrating taking the wicket of Smith in Adelaide again in 2013, claimed the Australia’s feedback present Sandpapergate stays a ‘delicate matter for him’
Cameron Bancroft, who used sandpaper to break the ball in the course of the third Take a look at towards South Africa, was given a nine-month ban.
Smith had admitted Australia’s ‘management group’ had devised a plan to tamper with the ball, which he admitted was a ‘huge mistake’.
Each Smith and Warner returned to Australia’s squad a yr later, whereas Bancroft was recalled for the 2019 Ashes.
In Could, 2019, Panesar wrote completely for Day by day Mail Sport about his notorious look on the long-running BBC present.
He wrote: ‘I wished to win Movie star Mastermind. Simply as I would wished to be well-known for my cricketing excellence, I would wished to steal the present by racking up an unassailable lead in my specialist topic after which choosing off the final information questions.
‘It did not fairly occur like that. I believed the primary spherical went OK. I acquired six out of eight and thought I would accomplished fairly properly, however again within the dressing room I can keep in mind asking everybody their scores and nobody actually wished to speak about them.
‘John Humphrys made awkward dialog for a number of seconds after which bowled me an extended hop for the opening query.
‘What number of pockets are there on a snooker desk?’ Virtually too simple. ‘Six!’ I mentioned. I am on my manner.
Smith leads Australia towards Ben Stokes’ England facet within the Ashes beginning on Friday
‘What signal of the zodiac is represented by a crab?’ ‘Scorpion… Sagittarius?’ ‘Most cancers.’ S***. I knew that.
‘What’s the title of AA Milne’s stage adaptation of Kenneth Graham’s The Wind within the Willows?’ ‘Harry Potter?’ ‘Toad of Toad Corridor.’
By no means thoughts, if it involves a tiebreaker it will be selected passes, so it is higher to present the incorrect reply than no reply.
‘What’s the customary worldwide unit of absolute temperature? It’s indicated by the letter Okay.’ ‘Oh, gosh… move.’
‘Which Asian island metropolis state is served by Changi Worldwide Airport?’ ‘Shanghai?’ ‘Singapore.’
‘Birds described as pelagic spend most of their lives flying over what?’ ‘The sky?’ ‘The ocean.’
‘In what 1997 movie do a bunch of unemployed males grow to be strippers for the evening of their native working males’s membership?’ ‘The Dreamboys?’ ‘The Full Monty.’
‘During which metropolis is the Olympiastadion, constructed for the 1972 Olympics and the place Germany’s nationwide soccer staff performed till 2001?’ ‘Er … Athens?’ ‘Munich.’
‘What was the second quantity of CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia to be revealed, following on from The Magician’s Nephew?’ ‘CJ Lewis?’ ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’
‘What have been the 5 guys referred to as within the title of the hit musical that was a tribute to the jazz blues man Louis Jordan?’ ‘Move.’
‘In an 1819 poem, what season of the yr does Keats describe as a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?’ ‘Oliver Twist?’ ‘Autumn!’
‘During which metropolis is the tv collection Cheers set?’ ‘America.’ ‘Boston.’
‘Automotive crash does not do it justice. It was just like the Titanic ramming the Hindenburg. Within the moments afterwards I used to be offended, as a result of it was so embarrassing.
‘When it went out I used to be with my household and I did not wish to watch, however for me to say Oliver Twist was, I suppose, why there’s just one Monty Panesar. It is my character, it is why individuals keep in mind me.
‘Hardly anybody will keep in mind who gained that exact episode of Movie star Mastermind. They will keep in mind me all proper.’
Smith definitely remembered because the build-up for the primary Take a look at took an sudden flip.
Panesar, 43, spoke publicly about his psychological well being struggles in the identical yr as he appeared on Mastermind.
Smith (proper), pictured trudging off after being dismissed by Panesar in 2013, mocked the previous England spinner’s look on Mastermind
He has battled with despair and in addition ingesting to extra, in addition to struggling with paranoia and anxiousness. Within the peak of these points, Panesar was launched by his county, Sussex, in 2013 after an incident that concerned urinating on a bouncer outdoors a membership.
In 2024, Panesar raised eyebrows with a short sojourn into politics, saying his candidacy for George Galloway’s Staff Social gathering of Britain earlier than quitting only a week later. Writing on social media, he mentioned he wanted extra time to ‘discover my political dwelling.’
Panesar took 167 wickets for England in whole however maybe his most memorable Take a look at with the staff got here as a batsman, making a superb last-wicket stand alongside Jimmy Anderson to avoid wasting the Ashes Cardiff Take a look at of 2009, incomes an important draw that will assist England then go on and win the collection.
Forward of Friday’s hugely-anticipated opening Take a look at of the collection, Smith earlier confirmed Australia’s last XI for Perth, with debuts for opening batsman Jake Weatherald and seamer Brendan Doggett, and no place for all-rounder Beau Webster.
