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THE rehabilitation of Monty Panesar became complete on Thursday when the quirky spinner played his first Test since being fined by police for urinating on bouncers at a Brighton nightclub last August.
Panesar, who failed to play a Test during Australia's recent Ashes tour despite dry and doctored wickets, was included for the second Test in Adelaide along with debutant all-rounder Ben Stokes, 22, as replacements for Jonathan Trott and Chris Tremlett.
The selection of Panesar was thoroughly endorsed by fellow spinner Graeme Swann.
"Monty's Monty. He's always been a bit left field and a bit different to everyone else and it's one of the reasons we love him so much," said Swann.
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"We don't care what's happened in the last 12 months off the field. He's one of the boys and we embrace him as ever and we love seeing him do well."
A traditionally conservative team under captain Alastair Cook and coach Andy Flower, choosing two spinners was a bold move on a dry pitch as England attempts to recover from its 381-run thumbing in Brisbane.
Captain Michael Clarke will be counting his blessings that he won the toss and batted because scoring will be difficult batting last on Adelaide's new slow drop-in wicket.
"I loved it, I love it when two spinners play. It's how all cricket should be played, a minimum of two spinners per team and slow, low turning wickets. It was great," said Swann, who received those wickets in England and now Adelaide.
Panesar finished with 1-68 from 24 overs but he should have had two wickets when Michael Carberry dropped a sitter of a catch at backward point from a Brad Haddin cut late in the day.
The left-arm spinner bowled one of the deliveries of the day, turning past the outside edge of Steve Smith's bat to bowl him when he was just six.
"I thought his bowling was excellent," Swann said of Panesar.
"It's never easy coming back into a team because obviously a lot of spotlight goes on you, a lot of expectation. So I thought he applied himself really well.
"It was a beauty to get his wicket. He could have had two by the end which was unfortunate. He did the job that we wanted him to do and that's all Monty ever does, he just turns up and plays his game."
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