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It's Tough Being Me - The Kevin Pietersen Story
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flibbertyjibber
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Yeah, might have finished by the time the next test starts.
Agent Nationaux
International Coach
I bet it's that troll Michael Vaughn who has been making all the tweets. 
Who is currently out of the side for 'personal reasons' who is set to gain from KP flouncing off.
That's right it is clearly the evil genius that is Ravi Bopara.
Really though this whole thing is so very tedious, just sort it out already.
KP is KP so I know this particular issue is a bit different but as a genreal point playing test cricket during the IPL is just not going to be sensible for much longer.
That's right it is clearly the evil genius that is Ravi Bopara.
Really though this whole thing is so very tedious, just sort it out already.
KP is KP so I know this particular issue is a bit different but as a genreal point playing test cricket during the IPL is just not going to be sensible for much longer.
Neil Pickup
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Is Bopara literate enough for that spoof?
honestbharani
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Its tough being me - The CW Mod Story..
Bet that one will have a LOT more humor..
Bet that one will have a LOT more humor..
AaronK
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and You guys think my favorite cricketer shahid afridi is unpredictable.. or crazy.. or can't make up his mind.. or can't commit to something.. or whatever
England Cricket News: Kevin Pietersen 'fully committed' to playing for England in all formats | ESPN Cricinfo
England Cricket News: Kevin Pietersen 'fully committed' to playing for England in all formats | ESPN Cricinfo
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chaminda_00
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Soft KP, very soft KP....
I lost all respect for KP after that massive ass kissing exercise. Clear lack of balls from KP.
I lost all respect for KP after that massive ass kissing exercise. Clear lack of balls from KP.
AlanJLegend
U19 Vice-Captain
I agree wholeheartedly.
Also, who was it on here that a month or so ago predicted that KP would make a limited overs comeback just before the T20 world cup, having missed the pointless series against Australia and no certainty to get back into the ODI side anyway?
I think it is definitely more
KP - 1
ECB - 0
He has pulled one over the ECB in a big way.
Andre
International Regular
Yep, it was me who said this. And I stand by it and think he has won here big time.
On the face of it, it looks like he was left out of the last Test, cut his losses and made himself available for all formats from now on (but still got to miss the ODers he didn't want to play in) so his nose isn't too far out of joint.
From there, England have evidently shown they don't think they can go without him and have delayed naming their Test squad to accomodate him again. So he's missed the one dayers and got them to change their side based on him playing along for the next period of time.
Win to him in my books. He'll get to go to the T20 WC and its possible his ODI spot is gone anyway due to the superb short format form of Bell/Bopara. So he may very well have got his wish.
All the while, I bet he's signed a pretty handsome deal with the Delhi Daredevils and will retire from all internationals post Ashes tour in 2013/14 to Oz and become a T20 freelancer. He'll be 34/35 by then and still have a good 3-4 years of worldwide T20 cricket in him to cash in.
Poor communicator, yes, too honest, definetly, but stupid... I doubt. His whole career has been pretty methodically planned out from an early point. Reckon he might have his next few years sorted too.
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Wow, so strongly disagree. The guy is going to have to play the NZ test series which he doesn't want to do, and he's going to have to play ODIs. Yes he can play the T20 WC, but that is a win for the ECB, they want him to play. They just didn't want other players thinking they can quit ODIs and play T20s as well.
Andre
International Regular
Yeah but I don't think he doesn't want to play ODI's. He just didn't want to play that series. And he got his way. Plus he's probably realised England may think they have a good ODI unit without him so is neither here nor there on if he gets picked.
I get the NZ Test series part, but Test cricket these days has pretty handy match payments so that wouldn't upset him all that much, with a longer term scenario being that he will miss very little IPL - if any - again from there.
Plus, if England felt like he was too much trouble there would be no delayed squad annoucement. He'd just have been excluded. He's pretty obviously now included so he got what he wanted - there hasn't been much doubt about his will to play Test cricket.
Realistsically, neither party really wins and they probably both know that. I'd say, though, that KP would be up on points from the whole scenario.
fredfertang
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He's a typical spoilt child - pushes the boundaries as far as he can and retreats back as soon as he pushes them too far - of course by the age of 7 or 8 most have grown out of it, but the talented ones do have a tendency not to be able to shrug it off