Monty Panesar: Smart and English

Monty Panesar was called a 'stupid Indian' during England's warm-up against New South Wales by a dense prick in the crowd.

Just to clarify, Monty Panesar has a computer science degree and if you can't remember where he's from, just check the scoreboard. It says 'England' on it.

Maybe Monty should have responded that he was as Indian as the speaker was English. That would have gone down well. We're presuming that whoever it was, wasn't of Aboriginal descent.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph reports that the beered-up no-mark went on to add: "Give us a wave, Monty. You can't speak English, you stupid Indian. I'll have to say it in Indian," which you would have thought was an insanely optimistic offer on his part. Not least because there's no such language.

New South Wales' captain, Simon Katich, described the incident as 'disappointing'. When Matthew Hayden got bitten by a dog that time he described it as 'disappointing'. They seem to be a bit strapped for emotions Down Under at the minute. Everyone's just sharing the one.

Cricket Australia tells racists to make more effort

Cricket Australia chief executive, James Sutherland, when asked about Monty Panesar being called 'a stupid Indian' responded: "I don't think there's too much racist about that."

The message is clear: Aussie racists have to pull their fingers out. They're not pulling their weight. If that's the best they can come up with, it's just not good enough.

James Sutherland could be more racist than that standing on his head.

Big fat racist, Darrell Hair, has the audacity to sue the ICC for racial discrimination

Disclaimer

We at King Cricket are not in any way implying that Darrell Hair is a racist, despite explicity stating exactly that in the headline.

It's just a joke, for which we are 'borrowing' many people's view of the man for comedic effect.

However, we would also like to clarify that we do think that he's fat.The gall of the man.

To be honest though, we think he's got a case in so far as he was made a scapegoat for the Oval abandonment (anyone using the term 'Ovalgate' should take a long, hard look at themselves before picking a decent spot to punch). However, there's no way that there was a 'racial' angle to this.

Darrell Hair was made a scapegoat because he's an abrasive buffoon, lacking in people skills and several Test nations have no confidence in him. That's enough to ensure his demotion from Tests in itself.