Cricket: Giles Fully Focused On Regaining Test Place Despite Panesar Heroics

Birmingham Post › March 10, 2006

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Ashley Giles could be forgiven for not celebrating the outstanding Test debut of Monty Panesar with quite the same enthusiasm as the rest of England's cricket fans, writes Myles Hodgson.

Frustrated by his failure to overcome a pre-Christmas hip operation, which forced him to miss the one-day series in Pakistan, Warwickshire spinner Giles could easily have bemoaned his luck while he watched Panesar make such an impact during the drawn opening Test against India in Nagpur.

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Cricket: Giles Fully Focused On Regaining Test Place Despite Panesar Heroics

Northamptonshire left-arm spinner Panesar's match figures of 58- 21-131-3, including the prized scalp of Sachin Tendulkar as his first Test wicket, left both coach D...

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