Former England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar expressed his desire to return to cricket having been cured of the āparanoia/schizophreniaā which sidelined him over the past few years. Panesar, 37, who was an England regular at his peak taking 167 wickets in 50 Tests ā told The Daily Mail he can earn a return to first-class cricket despite being without a club since 2016. His career has jolted since being released by Sussex in 2013 after the spinner urinated on a nightclub bouncer outside a club. āMy parents became worried. They wanted me to see someone,ā Panesar said. āI had always thought strong people couldnāt have a problem. My cricket had always gone the way I had planned it, but suddenly things started going in a direction I hadnāt experienced since childhood. āIt was a guy called Peter Gilmore who said I was suffering from paranoia/schizophrenia and that shocked me massively. Mike Brearley told me to be careful about the things I was saying to myself. Some experts ...
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