London, Oct. 8: Leg-spinner Monty Panesar, the only Sikh in the England cricket team, has clinched a publishing deal worth more than £300,000 to tell his life story.

According to reports, seven months into his Test career, 24-year-old Panesar has achieved a cult status that led to the book deal with Hodder and Stoughton, the publishing group.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, some may wonder whether Panesar, who has played just 10 Tests, can find enough material to fill the autobiography.

A little more than 12 months ago, the cricketer, whose parents moved from Punjab in India to England in the late 1970s, was completing a degree in computer science at Loughborough University.

But Roddy Bloomfield, Hodder’s sports editor, said the company — which is said to have beaten off 14 other publishers — was keen to make the most of Panesar’s sudden fame.