DON'T BLAME IT ON MONTY !

It seems so unreal - Monty Panesar can shout, appeal (indulge in excessive appealing to be precise) and that too loudly enough to invite the wrath of batsmen as well as the match referee. But it did happen during the 5th Test between England and the West Indies at Trinidad. Monty appealed, West Indians got angry, and the match referee fined. Maybe Monty was planning to party with Sir Allen Stanford in Antigua after the match... Maybe he ignored the request of on-field umpires Daryl Harper and Russell Tiffin (not to mention third umpire Aleem Dar) to accompany him... Maybe he paid the price for it...!
“Monty Panesar is a very enthusiastic and exuberant bowler and there is nothing wrong with that but on this occasion he has gone too far,” said Alan Hurst, the Elite Panel Match Referee in Port of Spain. “On more than one occasion during the day he began celebrating a prospective dismissal rather than appealing and waiting for the decision to be made, thereby not showing due respect for the role of the umpire. He is an experienced player who should know this action is not in the spirit of the game,” he added.
He is enthusiastic and he is exuberant. But come on, Mr Hurst, considering Monty's lean patch (which incidentally started from his debut match vs India at Nagpur on 1st March, 2006) you could have easily ignored his 'premature' act of "celebrating a prospective dismissal". A 25 per cent match fee cut was a bit too harsh. Now we know who is to be blamed if Monty stops appealing completely.