{"id":41753,"date":"2025-11-22T22:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-ashes-ex-england-spinner-monty-panesar-hits-back-at-steve-smiths-mastermind-jibe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:25:29","slug":"the-ashes-ex-england-spinner-monty-panesar-hits-back-at-steve-smiths-mastermind-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-ashes-ex-england-spinner-monty-panesar-hits-back-at-steve-smiths-mastermind-jibe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: Ex-England spinner Monty Panesar hits back at Steve Smith’s Mastermind jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"


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But referring again to the ball-tampering scandal<\/a> against South Africa in 2018 that led to Smith’s sacking as Australian captain, Panesar told Radio 5 Live: “I’ve had some great moments for England and I’ve had shockers, and he’s had some great moments for Australia and he’s obviously had a very big shocker in South Africa.<\/p>\n

“We’ve both made mistakes. I made mine on a quiz show, he made his on a cricket field.” <\/p>\n

The spat followed comments to a gambling website from the 43-year-old last week on how England should make Smith feel “guilty” about his part in the ‘Sandpapergate’ incident, where Australia’s “leadership group” had a plan, carried out by Cameron Bancroft, to tamper with the ball to “get an advantage”.<\/p>\n

Smith, 36, has often been taunted by fans over the scandal.<\/p>\n

And he brought up Panesar’s Mastermind episode, calling it “pretty comical”, when responding to the ex-bowler’s views.<\/p>\n

“Anyone who believes that Athens is in Germany, Oliver Twist is a season of the year, and America is a city, it doesn’t really bother me those comments,” Smith said in his pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n

With Pat Cummins out with a back injury, Smith will lead Australia in the first Test, which begins at Perth Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n

And Panesar, who played 50 Tests between 2006 and 2013, added: “What makes it more sort of pleasing is that the night before the Test match, he’s watching my Mastermind clips, memorising the questions and the answers. <\/p>\n

“And it kind of feels like England are already in his head and I can rattle the Aussies from sitting on my sofa.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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But referring again to the ball-tampering scandal against South Africa in 2018 that led to Smith’s sacking as Australian captain, Panesar told Radio 5 Live: “I’ve had some great moments for England and I’ve had shockers, and he’s had some great moments for Australia and he’s obviously had a very big shocker in South Africa. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1438,12752,667,6300,12755,12753,12754,10825,4302,7955],"class_list":["post-41753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-ashes","tag-exengland","tag-hits","tag-jibe","tag-mastermind","tag-monty","tag-panesar","tag-smiths","tag-spinner","tag-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41755,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753\/revisions\/41755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}