Australian cricketer Steven Smith, on the eve of the first Ashes Test, called out Monty Panesar’s interview in the BBC quiz show, in which the left-arm spinner incorrectly referred to the capital of Germany as Athens and America as a city.

Smith’s comments came after Pansear’s suggestion to England’s team of getting under the skin of Smith in the upcoming Ashes 2025. Panesar asked Ben Stokes’ men to refer to the 2018 sandpaper gate as a tactic.

In 2018, Smith, alongside David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, was caught for ball tampering in a Test match at Cape Town in South Africa and received appropriate fines and bans.

“I’m gonna go off topic for a second here,” Smith started his counterattack on Thursday. “Who among you in the room have seen Mastermind and Monty Panesar on that? Any of

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