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It's Tough Being Me - The Kevin Pietersen Story
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YorksLanka
International Debutant
fantastic player and STILLthe best player England have. this is monumentally stupid decision by the ECB to allow their yes man Giles to get his" job for the boys"and not have to manage /coach KP..the latter is impossible for a purely average player at best. I cant believe that England have sacrificed their team so that they can get their favourite into the head coach job..There is at least two years left for KP and i am sure he will go on to score bucket loads of runs in the numerous T20 competitions around the globe..I really feel for him as he has been made the scapegoat...
King Pietersen
International Captain
Eugh. We're knackered. How anyone in their right mind could possibly think we'll do better without Kevin Pietersen than with him is beyond me. He's the finest England batsman of his generation, and in 6 months when we're on our arse, and KP is smashing runs for Surrey, they'll soon change their minds, and we'll have to go through another period of 're-integration'. It's so frustrating, they're undoing all the good work done by Flower in the last few years because of one bad series. Gonna be a long way back for England now, I'm expecting a miserable series in Sri Lanka.
Flower gone, Cook's captaincy under-fire, Trott out, Pietersen out, Prior out, Swann out, no third seamer. Who's guaranteed a place in the side? Cook, Bell, Stokes, Anderson and Broad, anyone else? Root will probably play, but he looks completely out of form. So that makes for at least 5 potential places for new players to come in. That's a pretty major transitional period. Look at the effect it had on Australia. This is going to be a slow couple of years for England.
Flower gone, Cook's captaincy under-fire, Trott out, Pietersen out, Prior out, Swann out, no third seamer. Who's guaranteed a place in the side? Cook, Bell, Stokes, Anderson and Broad, anyone else? Root will probably play, but he looks completely out of form. So that makes for at least 5 potential places for new players to come in. That's a pretty major transitional period. Look at the effect it had on Australia. This is going to be a slow couple of years for England.
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indiaholic
International Captain
Just very sad that I won't get to watch him in tests. I will miss his imperiousness.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
As a Sri Lankan, i should be really happy that we wont have to face him in a few months here in England but I cant,- as a fan i want to see the best players playing in the circuit and as i said before i feel that this is a huge mistakeby England and hopefully this decision will be reversed...
I am sure the ECB are hoping that KP just plays twenty20 around the world from now on, him making county runs would certainly put them in an awkward position. Hard to see him turning out for 4 day games though.
G.I.Joe
International Coach
Farcical.
Probably the most spectacular batsman I've ever watched bat live.
AWTGingerfurball. There's a clique at work. As is typical of the MBA types, the ECB probably don't care who's at fault here. All they're interested in is in confirming that the situation is unsalvageable and in deciding which side to sacrifice that would result in fewer casualties. But they've shot themselves in the foot by not realising that you're better served chopping off three fingers than by sacrificing the thumb.
Probably the most spectacular batsman I've ever watched bat live.
AWTGingerfurball. There's a clique at work. As is typical of the MBA types, the ECB probably don't care who's at fault here. All they're interested in is in confirming that the situation is unsalvageable and in deciding which side to sacrifice that would result in fewer casualties. But they've shot themselves in the foot by not realising that you're better served chopping off three fingers than by sacrificing the thumb.
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ImpatientLime
International Regular
The Swann clique do come across as the most unlikable bunch of tossers, who take themselves far too seriously.
There was something always very 'school bully' about Swann.
There was something always very 'school bully' about Swann.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/statuses/430827352239505408
Wonder why Piers is getting his info on what happened in the meeting today?
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Kevin Pietersen ran out of runs to outweigh obnoxious attitude
Thought this summed it up reasonably well.
Thought this summed it up reasonably well.
ImpatientLime
International Regular
Swann, Anderson, Broad.
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Prior?
Swann has retired tho + Prior has been dropped
So there really isn't much of anything left. That's probably how they like it. Nothing left over from the previous generation means they can start with a clean slate.
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vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Yup, basically the guys who appear the most in his diaries.
benchmark00
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The Swann clique are the people who were following the fake KP or whatever it was on twitter. Not really a construct of this forum.
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
He was the one who called KP last time round as well. Cook is probably more in the clique than Broad funnily enough.