Monty Panesar’s 5-30 helped Campbelltown Camden 4th beat Hawkesbury 4th by 135 runs in the Reid Cup in Sydney Fourth Grade Cricket.
Ahead of the first Test match of the ongoing Ashes, Panesar was in the news when he got involved in a rather unusual war of words with stand-in Australian captain Steve Smith.
After the first Test, Panesar was in the news again when he took field for the Campbelltown Camden 4th against Hawkesbury 4th at Raby. Ahead of the game, Campbelltown Camden 4th were placed at the bottom of the Reid Cup (Sydney Fourth Grade League Cricket) points table.
Panesar played the last of his 50 Test matches during the 2013/14 Ashes in Australia. He had played for Campbelltown Camden before, and was recruited as a spin-bowling consultant by Cricket Australia for a tour of India.
Panesar ‘still got it’
Campbelltown Camden 4th posted 242-7 in the allotted 50 overs as Inderbir Singh returned 2-30 from his eight overs and Aryan Rodrigues 3-41 from his nine.They had been in trouble at 57-3 and then at 112-6, but Lachlan Campbell (62) and Umar Rashid (46 not out) added exactly 100 for the seventh wicket to bail them out of trouble.
Hawkesbury 4th were never in the hunt as Panesar rose to the occasion. He bowled his full quota of ten overs to finish with 5-30, dismissing Rodrigues (caught by Muhammad Faizan Khan), Avneesh Shivkumar (caught by Rashid), Ashbi Singh (caught by Rehan Kumar), Channpreet Singh (bowled), and Sean Sammons (caught by Toby Schofield).
With Avanindra Singh Sikarwar also picking up 3-34, Hawkesbury 4th were bowled out for only 107 in 34 overs to lose by 135 runs. For them, only Rodrigues (24) put up any resistance.
