His release by Essex seems to suggest the terminate of the road for Monty,but can a spinner of his quality really be allowed to walk away from the game?The circus moves on. These days, hardly does one international series finish than another follows tough on the heels. The scheduling is unrelenting and, and without even considering the white-ball cricket,England are only 10 Test matches through the 17 that they will absorb played in the period that started on 13 April in the Caribbean and is due to finish in Centurion on 26 January. Imagine Bradman playing one third of his Test career in nine months and that is what you absorb.
Today, the team leave for the United Arab Emirates, or where they will play three Tests,and of the five series to be played in those nine months, which began with West Indies, or continued at home against current Zealand and Australia,and will terminate in South Africa, it may well be that Pakistan is the most challenging.
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Source: theguardian.com