LONDON: Monty Panesar (pictured) is to leave county side Sussex after the club launched an investigation into the troubled England spinner being fined by police for urinating in public.
The 31-year-old, who is not in the latest England squad for the Ashes series against Australia, will go off the Sussex payroll at the end of the season next month and go on loan to a second-tier team until then.
“I am grateful to Sussex for allowing me to be released from my contract for 2014 and 2015 in order to explore other opportunities to further develop my cricket,” Panesar said in a statement yesterday.
“I want to give myself the best chance of playing all forms of the game at the highest level.”
Panesar has been England’s back-up Test slow bowler in recent years but Lancashire left-armer Simon Kerrigan was picked alongside main spinner Graeme Swann in the squad for this week’s fifth and final Ashes Test at the Oval starting tomorrow. REUTERS
