I'm going 'shut up you idiot'. He [Strauss] was being a [insult] - he was. But Strauss replied: "I think there is this impression there that I was always telling KP not to speak to the opposition; that's something that I don't think I'd ever do to KP. He did that whoever we played against; he always had his friends in the opposition.
I just don't see how you can do that, personally. I think that if you're playing for a team and potentially helping the opposition get one over one of your own players, no. Fellow former England captain Michael Vaughan, who skippered Pietersen until retiring in , felt Pietersen had crossed a line. Broadcaster Piers Morgan is resolute in his belief that Pietersen was wrongly made an example of. That is not the case at all. No one was trying to rile KP. Pietersen was left out of the final Test between the countries in August and then.
He allegedly sent messages to members of the opposition criticising then England captain Andrew Strauss during the. The messages were not saved to prove the exact wording, so the ECB relied on "binding assurances" from Pietersen that they were not derogatory before accepting his apology and handing him a new four-month contract.
And the England cricket chief added that the South Africans had to shoulder some responsibility for prompting him to send the texts. There would probably be mixed feelings [for South Africa]," insisted Collier. Pietersen will undergo a reintegration period involving face-to-face meetings to rebuild trust with the other players.
Team director Andy Flower will then decide when he feels the year-old batsman should return to the squad. These comments are now closed.
Comments Join the conversation. To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. Comment posted by U, at 7 Oct U As far as I recall, Giles Clarke advised a few days ago that a line has been drawn under the KP incident and the matter was closed. Now we have David Collier raising it again. What sort of clowns are the ECB hierarchy. Comment posted by Dod, at 7 Oct Dod. How old is Peterson? Take responsibility.
Whilst we have made every attempt to find a solution to enable Kevin to be selected we have sadly had to conclude that, in the best interest of the team, he will miss the Lord's Test. Morris later added on Sky Sports News that Morris, Strauss and Flower met Pietersen and his representatives on Friday evening, a meeting that Pietersen fondly imagined had solved the issues. We have been working through some of those issues.
Pietersen had attempted a career-saving video performance in keeping with his flamboyant on-field displays by unconditionally committing himself to play for England in all formats of the game and apologising for the media conference that led to speculation about dressing room rifts and his premature retirement. I want to make myself available for every single format of cricket for England. But after putting back their squad announcement by five hours, to 2. Pietersen may now be expected to serve his penance for Surrey in the final stages of the County Championship, a return to the roots of English first-class cricket for which he has rarely shown much affection, with the prospect that he will be considered for England's tour of India later this year if he proves himself in a fit state to tour.
It might be a boon for Surrey who, troubled by the tragic death of Tom Maynard and grief-stricken resignation from the captaincy of Rory Hamilton-Brown, are in danger of relegation. It will be a character test for Pietersen that he will not welcome.
I've realised how much I love playing for England. Former captain Michael Vaughan feels Kevin Pietersen should not have been picked for England after the text-gate scandal, where the latter was accused of sending unsavoury messages about skipper Andrew Strauss to the opposition team during the course of a Test match. Pietersen was part of four Ashes series wins, including the watershed victory but later fell out of the England set-up.
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