The Reintegration Thread

[barmyarmy]

I had a look at the analytics but I think it's possibly too early to tell still. We'd certainly like to grow that area of the site.

 

[IceAgeComing]

Piers Morgan also tweeted the thing out...

...I suppose all publicity is good, even if it comes from him...

 

[Aalay]

Pretty decent piece by Mike Atherton

A place that should be seen but not heard | The Times

 

[stefan]

Graeme Smith has also backed KP's bullying claims.

Graeme Smith: Kevin Pietersen is right about England’s bullying culture | Sport | theguardian.com

 

[Skater]

The story now is Alec Stewart's statement that Broad, Swann and Bresnan had access to the @kpgenius Twitter account. If it turns out to be true, if we're censuring Pietersen for sending those texts, surely Broad has got to be punished or sacked too?

 

[barmyarmy]

The ECB have already said that the investigation is closed and won't be re-opened.

 

[T.J.Hooker]

Clearly they only investigate things KP did.

 

[Skater]

The ECB have already said that the investigation is closed and won't be re-opened.

What the ECB says holds no weight. They've made a mess of the response to this, we all knew KP would come out all guns blazing at the start of October and they just haven't handled it at all well.

They do need to investigate it, and if they find out Broad was involved, he needs to be punished. As much as I think he's a very good bowler and one of our best, I don't want there to be double standards.

 

[barmyarmy]

Geek & Wilde 64 - KP & the Nuclear Winter by Geek & Wilde Cricket - Hear the world’s sounds

Have a listen to this when you get time.

 

[War]

I think that's pretty unfair, I don't think Atherton is remotely an ECB mouthpiece and his coverage has been better and more balanced than most

I like Atherton and I agree that's an unfair label. I'm having an ongoing "discussion" on twitter with Times Sport as to why there was no mention of the story in today's paper (it broke at 7pm last night so plenty of time to get it in like most the other papers).

Ye i admit it was a bit over the top on my part. But I only said it because i recall when this saga 1st broke out in January and at times during the domestic season when he was commentating, Athers was defending the ECB over the KP. Not as obvious as Agnew or Hayward @ the Mail - but you get the drift. Thus i stopped checking his times articles.

The latest one seems fairly balanced however.

 

[barmyarmy]

The Kevin Pietersen saga reveals the rotten mess at the heart of English cricket – at last – Telegraph Blogs

Well worth a read.

 

[T.J.Hooker]

It doesn’t take a genius… | England Cricket Blog - The Full Toss

 

[T.J.Hooker]

Have we discussed Ed Smith's article in this thread yet?

His description of an early encounter with Pietersen is revealing. KP was describing having his kit thrown off the balcony, but framed by comparing it to someone throwing Smith's laptop off a balcony, with a doubtless accidental but nevertheless unmistakable impression that he thought Smith more of a writer than a batsman.

KP probably drops bricks like that into conversations wherever he goes. Sort of like a cricketing Duke of Edinburgh.

 

[War]

When is the next ECB election, if ECB even has those things? If the majority of the England cricket stakeholders rise up chairman Giles Clarke against him because of this KP issue and vote him out, then maybe KP can come back.

Clarke may be powerful now that he joined the BCCI to take over world cricket, but I don't think he has a dictatorial control over ECB like Srinivasam has over BCCI/ICC.

 

[War]

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