A medium pace bowler and lower order batsman, cricket writer Colin Bateman stated, "at 6ft 6in, with an ability to make the ball swing, Munton is at his best in English conditions".
[1] His time at Warwickshire was a particularly successful one for the club, winning 6 trophies between 1993 and 1995; as a crucial part of that side, Munton was honoured as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1995.
Over the course of the season, he played in 17 of Warwickshire's 24 County Championship matches, taking 25 wickets at 32.12, with best bowling figures of 4/60 versus Kent.
His returns improved considerably over 1986, taking 38 wickets across the season at 25.84 each, outperforming overseas player Allan Donald in both respects.
[13] Munton's progress continued in 1989, surpassing 50 County Championship wickets for the first time in his career, finishing with 56 at 24.41 apiece,[14] second for Warwickshire only to his new ball partner Donald.
[18] Following this successful season, Munton was selected in the England A tours of both Pakistan and Sri Lanka over the 1990/91 winter.
[19] However, the tour was called off due to the start of the Gulf War after this one match, with the England side having to flee Pakistan on a "hastily-arranged" flight.
[29] Munton was included in the England Test squad from the start of the 1992 summer, with Phil Tufnell, David Lawrence and Dermot Reeve all recovering from injuries.
He kept his place in the XI for the fourth Test at Headingley and took 2/22 in the first innings and 1/40 in the second, with Inzamam-ul-Haq and Ramiz Raja among his victims, as England won by five wickets.
[33] He was, however, dropped for the final Test of the summer at the Oval, as Malcolm and Tufnell returned to the side, and did not make the squad for either of the 1992/3 overseas tours.
[34] Despite his appearances for England, Munton played in 15 of Warwickshire's 22 County Championship matches in the 1992 season, and bowled the second most overs in the side after only Allan Donald.
Despite his injury, he was able to return in time for the final of the Natwest Trophy, against Sussex, bowling 9 overs for 67 runs as Warwickshire won a high-scoring game,[43] which "redeemed an otherwise poor season".
Despite his outstanding personal figures and team results across the season, Munton, "especially unlucky", was not chosen on either of England's winter tours.
[46] After missing the first five championship matches of the 1995 season and the pre-season warm-up fixture against England A after having a back operation, Munton returned to the Warwickshire side to have an excellent season in the County Championship, playing ten of the seventeen games and finishing in the top five of the bowling averages (46 wickets at 19.56) as Warwickshire took the title.
In List A cricket he was a crucial part of the Warwickshire team which lifted the Natwest Bank Trophy, despite missing the final through injury.
Over the 1995/6 winter, Munton was called up to Nasser Hussain's England A side for their tour of Pakistan as a replacement for Gloucestershire bowler Mike Smith, who flew home with a rib injury.
[59] He was replaced in the side for the third and final A team Test, which was also the last first class match of a tour which was criticised by Wisden for the paucity of cricket played.
However, he did score his maiden first-class half century, with 54 not out against Worcestershire, as part of a partnership of 141 with Ashley Giles, breaking Warwickshire's record tenth-wicket stand previously held by Reg Santall and Wilfred Sanders.
He also obtained his first hat-trick in first class cricket, against Kent, with Rob Key, David Fulton and Trevor Ward his victims, as part of first innings figures of 6/44.
[66] Following the end of the season, Munton asked to be released from Warwickshire, stating that it was due to "a series of circumstances over the past couple of years".
[67] Across the county championship campaign, he collected 35 wickets at 31.22, with the highlights being a 6/54 during the first innings against Kent,[68] and 7/34 against Surrey in a match where Munton himself said "it was one of those magic days where everything clicks".