Is it the end of the road for maverick, dashing and somewhat eccentric South African Born English batsman Kevin Pietersen?????? well the answer might well be in the affirmative if media reports emanating from old blighty are any yardstick to go by........
According to a plethora of media reports a clandestine meeting was supposedly held between the coach of England's ODI team Ashley Giles, incumbent captain Alastair Cook and the English Cricket Board's Managing Director and former England stumper Paul Downton.........
Speculation has it that the three above mentioned notables were of the unanimous opinion that the infamous Mr. Pietersen was indeed a disruptive element who constantly vitiated a congenial dressing room atmosphere and also that he was proving to be hurdle in achieving unity and solidarity amongst the remaining team members.........
One may do well to recall the fact that the English team was indeed a divided house all throughout the traumatic and turbulent recent tour down under, where the English lions were comprehensively thrashed by a 12-1 margin by a marauding and rampaging Aussie team in all three forms of the game.........
The disastrous, ill fated and ill tempered tour saw the premature retirement of arguably the best off spinner in the business Graeme Swann from all three forms of the game citing irreconcilable differences with his team mates; abrupt return of the stodgy Jonathan Trott due to an alleged stress related illness........
Mysterious side lining or overlooking of left arm tweaker Madhusudan Singh (Monty) Panesar in favour of a rookie who was flown in on short notice and last but not the least the fall from grace of long time stumper Matt Prior.........
In fact, former English medium pacers turned journalist Angus Fraser and former English skipper turned commentator Michael Atherton had let the cat out of the bag and said that the English Cricket Board is all set to go after KP, Monty, Prior, Swann, Trott and last but not the least team director Andy Flower after the due completion of a horrendous tour down under........
Well, whatever may be the reason, the irrefutable fact is that Kevin Pietersen does not find himself on the England team sheet on the whistle stop tour of the Caribbean Isles in February or Twenty20 World Cup slated to be held in Bangladesh in March........
Reading the writing on the wall and realising that his time in English colours is indeed up for good, KP is said to have released a statement lamenting his exclusion from the English team for the next two series/tours and lauding his achievements as a batsman of some repute in all three forms of the game........
Cricket politics British ishtyle anybody..........
According to a plethora of media reports a clandestine meeting was supposedly held between the coach of England's ODI team Ashley Giles, incumbent captain Alastair Cook and the English Cricket Board's Managing Director and former England stumper Paul Downton.........
Speculation has it that the three above mentioned notables were of the unanimous opinion that the infamous Mr. Pietersen was indeed a disruptive element who constantly vitiated a congenial dressing room atmosphere and also that he was proving to be hurdle in achieving unity and solidarity amongst the remaining team members.........
One may do well to recall the fact that the English team was indeed a divided house all throughout the traumatic and turbulent recent tour down under, where the English lions were comprehensively thrashed by a 12-1 margin by a marauding and rampaging Aussie team in all three forms of the game.........
The disastrous, ill fated and ill tempered tour saw the premature retirement of arguably the best off spinner in the business Graeme Swann from all three forms of the game citing irreconcilable differences with his team mates; abrupt return of the stodgy Jonathan Trott due to an alleged stress related illness........
Mysterious side lining or overlooking of left arm tweaker Madhusudan Singh (Monty) Panesar in favour of a rookie who was flown in on short notice and last but not the least the fall from grace of long time stumper Matt Prior.........
In fact, former English medium pacers turned journalist Angus Fraser and former English skipper turned commentator Michael Atherton had let the cat out of the bag and said that the English Cricket Board is all set to go after KP, Monty, Prior, Swann, Trott and last but not the least team director Andy Flower after the due completion of a horrendous tour down under........
Well, whatever may be the reason, the irrefutable fact is that Kevin Pietersen does not find himself on the England team sheet on the whistle stop tour of the Caribbean Isles in February or Twenty20 World Cup slated to be held in Bangladesh in March........
Reading the writing on the wall and realising that his time in English colours is indeed up for good, KP is said to have released a statement lamenting his exclusion from the English team for the next two series/tours and lauding his achievements as a batsman of some repute in all three forms of the game........
Cricket politics British ishtyle anybody..........
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