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Variety no longer the spice for Monty

Monty Panesar has blamed moves to expand his spin bowling repertoire for his poor first-class returns this season, and has vowed to revert to his natural game if pitched into Ashes combat this summer

29-Jun-2009•Alex Brown

England set off for secret bonding session

The 16 players named in England's preliminary Ashes squad have been told to report for duty in Birmingham tomorrow armed with their passports

25-Jun-2009•Andrew Miller

Lancashire take charge on Flintoff return

A round-up from the first day of the latest County Championship matches as Andrew Flintoff makes his Lancashire comeback and Andre Nel takes six wickets for Surrey

11-Jun-2009•Cricinfo staff

Swann sizes up spin-twin summer

It is not impossible that England will buck all received wisdom about early-season English pitches, and select two spinners for the a match which begins on May 6, the earliest-ever start to a Test match in the country

04-May-2009•Andrew Miller at Lord's

Dressing room disruption 'affected Panesar'

Monty Panesar's Northamptonshire coach has said one of the reasons for the spinner's poor form over the winter could be traced to the "disruptive" period in the England dressing room during the Pietersen-Moores reign

10-Apr-2009•Cricinfo staff

West Indies survive in thrilling finale

West Indies regained the Wisden Trophy for the first time since 2000 in a thrilling finale to the series in Trinidad. Left with 66 overs in which to bat in their second innings after England's lunchtime declaration, West Indies shipped wickets at regular

10-Mar-2009•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Panesar and Amjad fined for excessive appealing

England spinner Monty Panesar has been fined 25% of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the fifth Test against West Indies in Port of Spain

10-Mar-2009•Cricinfo staff

England sense their end-game

England huffed and puffed and still couldn't blow the West Indies house down. They haven't quite run out of time, but things now have to happen at increasing speed over the next six sessions if the visitors are going to level the series. And speed hasn't

08-Mar-2009•Andrew McGlashan in Trinidad

Chris shows Kevin how it's done

Andrew McGlashan presents the plays of the day from Kingston

06-Feb-2009•Andrew McGlashan

Strauss century sparks England win

Andrew Strauss bounced back from his first-innings duck to post England's third century of the match, then followed up with his first victory as full-time captain

27-Jan-2009•Cricinfo staff

Workmanlike England turn the screw

While much of the attention surrounded injury scares off the field, England enjoyed a good day on it at Basseterre as their bowlers dismissed a St Kitts Invitational XI for 251 and then Andrew Strauss and Alistair Cook guided them to 118 for 0, a lead of

26-Jan-2009•Cricinfo staff

Mushtaq aims to rejuvenate Monty

England are without a head coach for their tour of West Indies, but are certainly not short of people to offer advice in their own areas of expertise

23-Jan-2009•Cricinfo staff

Moores says Panesar lacked practice

Peter Moores, the England coach, has defended Monty Panesar's poor show in India's record run chase in Chennai, blaming it on lack of practice ahead of the series

17-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Panesar lacks practice, says county coach

Monty Panesar's wicketless outing during India's record chase of 387 in the Chennai Test, which has prompted a level of criticism, was due to a lack of bowling practice, his county coach has said

16-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

Moores puts defeat down to skill, not tactics

Peter Moores, the England coach has refused to blame the tactics for the six-wicket defeat in the first Test against India in Chennai

16-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

A fourth-innings special

Stats highlights of India's six-wicket win against England in Chennai

15-Dec-2008•Cricinfo staff

England can still walk tall

At the start of the first Test, it was agreed that, win or lose, England would be regarded as victors simply for turning up en masse and playing in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. It's hard to imagine they'll find much solace in that solida

15-Dec-2008•Andrew Miller

Swann on song as England seize the day

You wait nine years for your first Test wicket, then two come along all at once. Whatever pre-conceived notions Graeme Swann developed during that decade-spanning hiatus between his first England tour and his maiden Test cap, they were soundly trounced in

12-Dec-2008•Andrew Miller

Panesar pulled from Sri Lanka to join performance squad

The ECB has confirmed Monty Panesar will travel with the England Performance Programme squad instead of spending a month in Sri Lanka playing club cricket

30-Oct-2008•Cricinfo staff

Panesar unlikely to play for Sri Lankan club

Monty Panesar, the England left-arm spinner, is unlikely to play for Bloomfield in Sri Lanka's domestic Premier trophy tournament due to a pay dispute

29-Oct-2008•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

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