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Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar (born 25 April 1982) is an English international cricketer who currently plays for Essex. A left-arm spinner, Panesar made his Test debut in 2006 against India in Nagpur and one-day debut for England in 2007. In English county cricket he currently plays for Essex, and has previously played for Northamptonshire until 2009 and Sussex from 2010-2013, He has also played for the Lions in South Africa. Born in Luton to Indian parents, Panesar is a Sikh, and so he wears a black ''patka'' (a smaller version of the full Sikh turban) while playing and training. Many of his fans have emulated him by wearing patkas and fake beards while watching him play.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Monty Panesar Needs A Hug Not The Sack )〕 When first selected for England he was widely perceived as being a particularly inept batsman and fielder, which resulted in much ironic cheering;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Monty Panesar )〕 the TMS commentator Henry Blofeld once accidentally referred to him as Monty Python. Panesar lost his place in the England test team, being replaced by Graeme Swann and losing his central contract.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Harmison & Panesar lose contracts )〕 However, his form improved with Sussex County Cricket Club, and so he was recalled to the squad for the 2010–11 Ashes series, although he did not feature in any matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Tremlett and Panesar return for Ashes )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Ashes, 2010/11 )〕 After taking 69 wickets in the 2011 county season Panesar earned a recall for the series against Pakistan In the UAE;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Spin bowler Monty Panesar gets England recall for Test series in UAE )〕 he played in the second Test – his first Test appearance in over two and a half years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Statistics / Statsguru / MS Panesar / Test matches )〕 Panesar also played in 3 Test matches in India in 2012, before deputising for the injured Graeme Swann as lead spinner in the England tour of New Zealand, where he managed just 5 wickets costing 70 runs each. ==Personal life== Panesar's father, Paramjit Singh, is a builder, who, along with Panesar's mother Gursharan Kaur, migrated from Punjab, India to Luton, England in 1979, where they continue to live, and where Monty Panesar was born. Panesar has a younger brother, Isher Singh Panesar, and sister, Charanjit Kaur Panesar. Panesar is a Luton Town fan and is often seen at matches. Panesar was educated at St. Matthew's Infant and Junior Schools and Stopsley High School, Luton. For Sixth Form, he studied at Bedford Modern School.〔''School of the Black And Red, A History of Bedford Modern School'' by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman, 2010〕 He also has a degree in computer science from Loughborough University. Panesar has been quoted as saying, "I follow Sikhism, and maybe I’ve channelled the discipline that religion creates into my cricket. There’s discipline with any religion, and you can take it into a game or into anything else" (''The Sunday Times'', 6 August 2006).〔()〕 Panesar has uncut hair and a full length beard, which is a fundamental part of the Sikh identity and way of life. He won the 2006 Beard of the Year competition run by the Beard Liberation Front. In 2010, Panesar married pharmacist Gursharan Rattan in a traditional Sikh ceremony. In 2011, Panesar was arrested and interviewed by the police after a heated argument with his wife in a pub car park. He was subsequently released without charge.〔 In 2013 the couple divorced,〔http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/monty-panesar-bitter-divorce-wife-2181412〕 and shortly afterwards Panesar was fined for urinating in public near the Shooshh Club at King's Road Arches, Brighton, on 5 August 2013. According to the media, Panesar was told to leave the club because he was harassing women, and he later urinated from the promenade above the venue on to bouncers standing below.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Panesar fined for urinating )〕 Having admitted that he had broken the Sikh vow not to drink, combined with his poor form, the incident contributed to him leaving Sussex, and being loaned to Essex 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monty Panesar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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