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Why does everyone love Monty?

chris.hinton

chris.hinton

International Captain
In recent years the Follwing where born in our Countries and played for England

Strauss, G Jones, Solanki, Pietersen, R Smith, Lamb, Caddick, Mullaly, Craig White, Hussain,
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
chris.hinton said:
In recent years the Follwing where born in our Countries and played for England

Strauss, G Jones, Solanki, Pietersen, R Smith, Lamb, Caddick, Mullaly, Craig White, Hussain,
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I assume by "our" countries you mean "other" countries, and there have been many, many instances. In my opinion you should only be able to play for a country if you were born there, your parents are natives but you born overseas for some reason - ie Dexter, Cowdrey - or you came to a country at a young age and learned your cricket in that country. The likes of Smith, Hick, Lamb and now Pietersen should not be allowed to play for England. Monty is okay, he's just a product of a multi-racial society.
 
Tomm NCCC

Tomm NCCC

International 12th Man
Because he has the worlds coolest name - Monty :D

Passag summed it all up in the second post, his enthusiasm, his friendlyness,a nd the fact he can bowl a bit aswell. I think that he could be seen as a novelty, the first sikh to play for England and it could be a bit of patronization,l or is that just racist on my part?
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Lillian Thomson said:
I assume by "our" countries you mean "other" countries, and there have been many, many instances. In my opinion you should only be able to play for a country if you were born there, your parents are natives but you born overseas for some reason - ie Dexter, Cowdrey - or you came to a country at a young age and learned your cricket in that country. The likes of Smith, Hick, Lamb and now Pietersen should not be allowed to play for England. Monty is okay, he's just a product of a multi-racial society.
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TBF Smith, Lamb & Pietersen all have at least one English parent.
 
steds

steds

Hall of Fame Member
silentstriker said:
He was born in England, you know.
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More importantly. He's lived his whole bloody life here. It's not like he decided "I know. I'll up sticks and qualify to play for England" 5 or so years ago.
 
Turbinator

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
Stumped said:
Pretty much all players put passion and give 100% i think the world like monty because he shows it more often. More emotionaly "unshy"
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Looks like someone hasn't seen India play...
 
PhoenixFire

PhoenixFire

International Coach
open365 said:
Andrew Strauss and gerraint Jones are far more foreing than Panesar. Panesar is English, he was born in Luton, so shut up.
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No no, he has a different colour skin, he must be more foreign than a white person....................
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
PhoenixFire said:
No no, he has a different colour skin, he must be more foreign than a white person....................
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Don't really care about his skin colour, but certainly being born in Luton does him no favours.:)
 
PhoenixFire

PhoenixFire

International Coach
It was sort of meant as an ironic statement, to those people (not you), who were clearly thinking he was more of a foreigner than Strauss, because he is coloured.
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
PhoenixFire said:
It was sort of meant as an ironic statement, to those people (not you), who were clearly thinking he was more of a foreigner than Strauss, because he is coloured.
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I know what you meant, but I can never resist the opportunity to slag off Luton.:)
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
PhoenixFire said:
It was sort of meant as an ironic statement, to those people (not you), who were clearly thinking he was more of a foreigner than Strauss, because he is coloured.
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"Coloured"? I had no idea we were living in the 50s! :p
 
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