The Full Monty

Sport may be trivial, however it doesn't mean we have to trivialise people's names, be it Mudhsuden or Sonny, Femi or Muhammad, writes Fazeer Mohammed in The Trinidad Express.

As someone obsessed with maintaining an audience, the occasional appearance of this column on Cricinfo, the world's most popular cricket website, has served to further inflate an already disproportionately large ego.

I was taken aback, though, to see a minor alteration to Monday's piece which focused on the excellent rearguard by the West Indies batsmen on the fourth day of the third Test in Manchester. In highlighting the threat posed by England's specialist spinner, I deliberately referred to him by his proper name, Mudhsuden Panesar (it's actually Mudhsuden Singh Panesar), only for the web editor to replace that first name with the one that he is universally known by, "Monty".