For the record I think Monty can bowl.
I just don’t think he is a shit hot test match bowler, or the saviour of spin bowling in test cricket.
He should not be an automatic selection, and his record on raging turners outside of Old Trafford should be looked at very closely.
Plus he bores me.
There is a certain person who was less than pleased with my In bed with Monty post.
Lets call them anonymous, as that is what they call themselves.
I do believe Monty is a fair to good bowler, but if England really want to be a test match force I am not convinced he is “the one”.
When he took 4 wickets the other day, our friend anonymous had this to say,
It’s been a few weeks since you left Monty for “the other man”, the one who now sits in your living room playing his computer games and eating burgers, things that you once found ‘cute’ now seem juvenile and annoying. Deep down you know the idea of this young exotic man was always more appealing than the reality. You saw Monty out last night. You stood akwardly and exchanged pleasantries before a young, blonde South African woman ran up and took Monty away by the arm, laughing and stroking his beard. People used to say Monty could only pull when conditions suited, when everyone at a bar was suitably drunk and impaired. You always knew that wasnt the case but as you look around the room and see four women sitting with Monty you realise that now everyone else seems to be ‘getting it’.
I said this,
I think the people in that bar were well more drunk than you give them credit for. Those 4 South Africans had been working on a big deal that went sour and were all looking at a troubling weekend. They started doing shots of red bull and goats piss and Monty just got lucky, again.
Now I will say this,
60 overs on the 4th and 5th day, no wickets.
If he is the saviour, he didn’t think this game was worth saving.
The worst thing is he bowled well.
You know what they say though, wickets talk and bullshit walks.
I may be the first person to ever say that.
Hmm… bit odd he got no wickets. Price was out lbw at least twice and McKenzie was pretty plum about three lifetimes ago (it seems that long). Harper decided not to give. However that doesn’t in any way make up for the fact that most of the SA batsmen played him easily.
Hmm.. so what u r saying is that his long fingers are pretty overrated- in bed and on a 5th day pitch…hmmm.
First off, congratulations mate for honorable mention in the Wisden. I now expect that official CWB book to be released sooner than later. :)Back to the test match, the pitch had more bite initially than later. One even felt that Lord’s had begun to spin to Monty’s growing legacy…a distinct change in character from earlier summers.Australia perhaps still remains the only team which can make the follow-on count more often than not.It is a credit to the Saffers that they did not concede a wicket to Monty despite him bowling well over an entire ODI worth of overs. He should be examining his spell as to why he failed to be a temptress enough to batsmen bent upon playing from the crease.That in itself should raise eyebrows for a spinner should have relished the prospect of bowling to two batsmen playing from the crease.And Harper does appear to be copping flak on the Beeb boards I poppped over to read at today.Going by the first two days, the pitch promised something else for the fifth day but turned up with a strait jacket on instead.
and saffers can’t even play spina good spinner gets an erection at the sight of a batsman unwilling to leave their crease