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Tim Munton, the medium-fast bowler from Warwickshire, played two Test
matches against Pakistan in 1992 but was too short of top pace to
establish himself in international cricket. Munton specialised in moving
the ball off the wicket. At 6ft 6in and 15 and a half stone he had an
action so energetic that he almost dragged his body round to face the
way he had come in his follow through. In his first Test, the third in
the series, at Old Trafford he took just one wicket, albeit that of the
legendary Javed Miandad, for 112 in the first innings. In the second he
took none at all, though he was very economic, sending down 17 overs for
just 26 runs
. He scored 25 not out, batting at number ten, and shared a
partnership of 84 with Ian Salisbury. In the next Test, at Headingley,
which England won by six wickets, he took 2-20 and 1-40. He had toured
Sri Lanka with England A in 1991, taking 4-61 in the A Test at Kandy,
and was called in to the 1992 A tour to the West Indies when Dermot
Reeve was transferred to the Test team. He took 1-46 in the first Test
in Trinidad, his victim being future Test opener Richard Samuels, and
1-69 in St.Lucia where the less illustrious batsman was Tony Gray, the
Trinidad and Surrey fast bowler. He took 0-40 in Barbados. Munton
started playing for Warwickshire in 1985 and captained them in the late
1990s before moving on to play for Derbyshire. (Bob Harragan)
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