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Cricketer Of The Year
Consensus with Vaughan, Tuffers, and the Mail bloke was that it's looked odd for the last two/three months with KP, and that this is just the straw that broke the camel's back.
the man's a genius, with these guys in KPs corner, he can't fail can he?Apparently Goughy wants to know if the texts between England players who aren't KP will be checked for any anti-KP comments
2 things, in neither circumstance was he talking to opposition member's about his team mates and in the second case Khan can't have bowled more than a couple of overs at him before he hobbled off.Nobody complained about his attitude when he made a match-winning double hundred in Adelaide. Nobody was on his case when he scored another one against India at Lord's when the ball was hooping round corners for Zaheer Khan.
Wow. I kind of rushed to negative judgement on Prior after the Lord's window incident. Stuff like this is really making me reconsider."Matt Prior is the most selfless of cricketers, as can be seen whenever he bats, and now, off his own back, he decided to ring Pietersen to try to get to the bottom of why his team-mate had barely conversed with the England team for months.
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Bugger, now I'm going to feel slightly bad if we get Prior out, that was rather decent of him.
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Yeah, I don't personally think Aker and KP's situations are totally analogous. KP's (apparently) an egotist and holds unfavourable opinions about some team-mates whereas Aker is that + playing off team-mates against each other from all reports. The former is managable, the latter is poisonous.Jesus, so touchy. Out of all the times to have a crack at one of us for making an AFL reference, this was a legitimate one.
Dead set what has happened to KP is almost the exact same thing that happened to another sports star (Jason Akermanis) at a club with the exact same result - the management/selectors not taking **** and the player with a huge ego thinking he was above the team and bitching about his fellow players being sacked/dropped.
Its just interesting how no matter what the sport, no matter what the country, what is best for the team environment always comes first. Or almost does at least.
What's your source for this?There's also the part where they are specifically asked by management not to do something in the media, i.e. write an article or release a video, and they do it anyway.
The ECB, meanwhile, will want to find out why Pietersen went ahead with his YouTube video despite being advised otherwise and is unlikely to be impressed with his specific reference to having spoken to Delhi Daredevils, his IPL franchise, ahead of his announcement while seemingly not keeping his major employers in the loop and his presumption that he would play in "Straussy's 100th Test".What's your source for this?
re: KP.
Your point is that they could have handled KP better. The Dogs and Lions could have handled Akermanis better too. Particularly the Dogs.And? Warne was the same and his team beat the piss out of everyone, even though many, including his captains, didn't appreciate his behaviour and the negative press he brought (anyone else remember his tanty when dropped in the WI for MacGill? That amongst many others.....). It's all manageble, though, as proven by the Aussie management of the time. Without being privy to all the machinations, this seems to be so too.