But I doubt there'd be a big enough gulf of difference in the qualities of Pietersen and the young player to make it worth going for KP and then it'd be worth just going with the youngster.
But we can make a reasonable estimate of the abilities of players like Ballance who are constantly playing by keeping track of their performances. Ballance for example has heavily impressed in Test Cricket and so he is worth investing in instead of taking Pietersen's runs.
Pratters, all of your comments in this the thread have been so far off the mark it's not funny.............but this one takes the cake. Clearly you can't or don't differentiate between test and one day cricket with these players.
You're a fool.
Had no idea you wanted KP back tbh.
When we've had years of hearing him in the news involved in virtually all the major controversies in modern English cricket, it just get's too tiresome to the point where I really would take series defeats in order to avoid him in the news.
That won't stop KP being in the news.
But what can he really do if he's not in the team other than daft, snide criticisms? He'd be a very publicised Geoff Boycott at worst and the non-sporting media would eventually lose interest because he'd have no real power other than column inches.
Yeah no matter who the player is, you'd prefer to win no matter what in my eyes. Maybe I'm more willing to overlook personality flaws than several blokes here though, dunno. Not sure if it applies to KP's case these days anyway either.
That's basically what he's been doing for the last twelve months, and.......
it had all quietened down till Graves opened his big gob. Dopey ****.
He'll eventually just lose things to say on the condition of the changing room (as his book was aimed at revealing) and so begin to lose anything he could really add other than impressions on performances and maybe some stuff he didn't say in the book. People may begin to respond to him (I really hope they don't bother), but it would bound to be less publicised than KP's book was because it'd be the likes of Matt Prior saying it- not the superstar Pietersen. Pietersen would probably respond but I'd really be astonished if any of it would be as heavily publicised as the book itself. Not to mention this will all happen whether or not he's in the side; and so his being in the side just adds more room for controversy.
You could fill the Grand Canyon with things you have no idea about.
You got what you wanted fellas. You lost to Bangladesh in Australian conditions to the might of the Bangladeshi fast bowlers.
