Monty Panesar: Opens Up About His Career In Cricket & His Future In Sports Presenting

May 26, 2021

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In this podcast, Sangeeta Waldron speaks to Monty Panesar, former left arm spinner cricketer and English international. His career marked by 167 Test wickets, a Wisden Cricketer of the year award. Monty made his Test cricket debut in 2006 against India in Nagpur and One Day International debut for England in 2007. In English county cricket, he last played for Northamptonshire in 2016, and has previously played for Northamptonshire until 2009, Sussex from 2010 to 2013 and Essex from 2013 to 2015. He has also played for the Lions in South Africa.

There is always a lot of love for Monty and in this conversation, Monty talks about hard-hitting issues from diversity in cricket, dealing with online racial abuse, mental health along with thoughts of his first love, cricket and his personal best moments from his career. We also find out that Monty is studying right now, has ambitions to land a sports presenting role and is about to launch ‘Monty Meets,’ his own podcast series.

You can follow Monty on Twitter, Instagram. Look up his Monty Channel

Connect with Sangeeta Waldron, Founder, Serendipity PR & Media and Author of Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Public Relations on Twitter.

Sangeeta Waldron is a multi-award winning Public Relations professional with over three decades’ worth of publicity, branding, communications, crisis management, marketing, media and social media experience. Recently named in the Top 15 Women of Influence in PR and Communications by Commetric, including its Top 100 List of PR Influencers. Sangeeta first business book, The PR Knowledge Book is published by Business Expert Press, receiving high acclaim by international business leaders.

She guest lectures at Coventry University, teaching PR and global journalism. She is global contributing editor for India CSR Network, specializing in sustainability and corporate social responsibility; her work has been published by the United Nations and other leading news platforms.