Give Monty and Adil time

Young spinners are all the rage around England at the moment with the Test-match success of Monty Panesar and emergence of Adil Rashid, a legspinner, at Yorkshire. In The Observer, Vic Marks, cautions against getting too over excited and says that both spinners need time to develop.

At least Panesar has been around for a while now. Adil Rashid has not, zooming into prominence only two weeks ago when he became the first home-bred Asian to represent Yorkshire in a Championship match and bowled the Tykes to victory over Warwickshire. Again this watershed was well worth highlighting. But let's allow him to develop without too much hullabaloo.

To learn more about Monty, have a read of Simon Wilde's extensive feature in The Sunday Times.

This autumn, while wealthier, brasher teammates may race off to luxury apartments in the sun, Panesar plans to travel to a farm run by a Sikh guru near Edmonton, Canada, for a spell of voluntary work, just as he did last year before many cricket followers even knew his name. He will help with the harvest, mix cement to repair the temple and generally spend time with friends, doing what he calls “normal things and getting away from cricket altogether”.