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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:15 pm

If England are getting torn apart this summer, we'll all hear plenty of him.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:16 pm

It's not so much that he was sacked, more the way he was sacked which annoys most cricket lovers.


ECB made a right pig's ear of it and they wont be allowed to forget it.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Gingerfinch » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:17 pm

Aidan11 wrote:If England are getting torn apart this summer, we'll all hear plenty of him.


And from him.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:23 pm

Actually, it was that he was sacked. Probably the first England cricketer to be sacked. Though being quietly got rid of, like Larwood was just as bad. But there is plenty more to be disenchanted about, rippling out from that event. But the story is arguably more now about the perpetrators still being in place, than any real appetite for KP to return.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby m@tt » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:33 pm

Aidan11 wrote:It's not so much that he was sacked, more the way he was sacked which annoys most cricket lovers.

ECB made a right pig's ear of it and they wont be allowed to forget it.

As AC says, it was because that he was sacked.

If England thought he was a problem, the sensible course of action would have been to take him the World T20 (different coach, different captain, and too soon to make a big decision), then drop him from the team to play Sri Lanka and tell him to go back to Surrey and score runs.

That they sacked the player who had scored more runs and centuries for England than any other player and still haven't adequately explained the reasons why still grates a lot of people.

Of course, I appreciate what I'm saying has been said many times before, by myself and others.

Edit: Surprise, surprise, my thousandth post (at a morbidly slow strike rate - 6 years, 2 months) is about Pietersen.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:34 pm

I probably phrased that wrongly but yes I agree.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby hopeforthebest » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:37 pm

Aidan11 wrote:It's not so much that he was sacked, more the way he was sacked which annoys most cricket lovers.


ECB made a right pig's ear of it and they wont be allowed to forget it.


But that's been repeated over and over many, even I must have said it half a dozen times.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:41 pm

I feel less embarrassed about repeating myself.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:44 pm

I try not to repeat myself. Especially in public.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:12 am

Wisden's editorial is quite critical of the ECB, but where KP is concerned, not that they ruthlessly assassinated him, but that they didn't ruthlessly assassinate him more efficiently.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby sussexpob » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:49 am

Quite a lot of truths in the Wisden article
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:11 am

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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby sussexpob » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:21 am

Arthur Crabtree wrote:http://www.cityam.com/210859/cricket-comment-england-need-player-kp

Tremlett on KP, and the WC.


Probably not a fair person to ask..... he was, after all, dropped after taking the best match figures at Brisbane out of any England bowler.... another scapegoat
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:06 pm

That's Tremlett got no chance of a recall.
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Re: The enigma that is Kevin Pietersen

Postby Aidan11 » Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:53 am

Strauss uses several paragraphs to have his say about KP.


Effectively he's just padding out the one word he used to describe him last summer to Nick Knight.
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