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The Reintegration Thread
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But Graves is Chairman of the ECB, so surely he doesn't get a say on selection? Unless he's going to try to fire all the selectors and put in people who will pick KP, which would be utterly crazy.
Been bizarre from KP though. Why didn't he put this much effort in to playing County Cricket last year? If he'd stuck up hundreds of runs, he'd have been impossible to ignore. Yet he only seems to have come up with the idea now. Either he's not very clever, or his IPL contract was bigger last year.
Been bizarre from KP though. Why didn't he put this much effort in to playing County Cricket last year? If he'd stuck up hundreds of runs, he'd have been impossible to ignore. Yet he only seems to have come up with the idea now. Either he's not very clever, or his IPL contract was bigger last year.
Aislabie
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I really do dislike Kevin Pietersen, but I've been in teams with players I dislike before. I spent three years opening the bowling with someone I didn't get on with, but it didn't stop us winning the county cup at the time. I've even skippered players who I've had little or no time for. The best way to deal with these people is usually to treat them like any other human being and get on with playing cricket.
Treating them like any other human being does not mean leaking juicy details about someone, suspending them, reintegrating them because they leave a big-ass hole in the middle order, waiting impatiently for them to mess up, very publicly sacking them when they do, and then appointing someone with whom they have had a much-publicised feud in the past to push home the point that "Kevin is not part of our plans".
Treating them like any other person would mean dealing internally with the issue of those text messages, and maybe even having a conversation about what he felt to be so wrong about Strauss's leadership. It would have meant dropping him because he was injured, not sacking him as the team's leading scorer. It would mean that, if he were to play Championship cricket and score untold amounts of runs, he could return to the side.
Had that been the way things were dealt with, it seems unlikely that the autobiographical diatribe would not have been published, and England may have been able to avoid the cushy, jobs-for-the-boys clique which has led to the current state of decline.
By treating him as KPeacock and not as Kevin Pietersen, England batsman, the ECB has created a rod for its own back, with which fans, pundits, journalists, players and opponents have all been able to beat them because, really, it's just too easy.
Had the situation been dealt with properly, there would be a place for an in-form Pietersen in the England side, but currently there isn't. Graves wants to change this, but there might already be far too much water under the bridge.
Treating them like any other human being does not mean leaking juicy details about someone, suspending them, reintegrating them because they leave a big-ass hole in the middle order, waiting impatiently for them to mess up, very publicly sacking them when they do, and then appointing someone with whom they have had a much-publicised feud in the past to push home the point that "Kevin is not part of our plans".
Treating them like any other person would mean dealing internally with the issue of those text messages, and maybe even having a conversation about what he felt to be so wrong about Strauss's leadership. It would have meant dropping him because he was injured, not sacking him as the team's leading scorer. It would mean that, if he were to play Championship cricket and score untold amounts of runs, he could return to the side.
Had that been the way things were dealt with, it seems unlikely that the autobiographical diatribe would not have been published, and England may have been able to avoid the cushy, jobs-for-the-boys clique which has led to the current state of decline.
By treating him as KPeacock and not as Kevin Pietersen, England batsman, the ECB has created a rod for its own back, with which fans, pundits, journalists, players and opponents have all been able to beat them because, really, it's just too easy.
Had the situation been dealt with properly, there would be a place for an in-form Pietersen in the England side, but currently there isn't. Graves wants to change this, but there might already be far too much water under the bridge.
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KP and Sunrisers have reached an agreement to release KP from the IPL regular season so he can play county cricket. However KP will be recalled by the Sunrisers if the reach the KO stages.
http://www.kevinpietersen.com/news/...s-and-pietersen-reach-agreement-over-ipl-2015
http://www.kevinpietersen.com/news/...s-and-pietersen-reach-agreement-over-ipl-2015
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ParkedTheBus
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Bold, and a bit foolish imho. Will his teammates want to play with him after all he wrote in his book?
ParkedTheBus
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Also, where would KP play? England seems to have a settled middle order of Ballance, Bell, Root and Ali. So where would he play?
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When Bolt & Southee run through them before the Ashes, a space will open up.
settled by what standards..all that settled order faced was our uninterested wanting to go back home team in tests, also who among them can score more than KP or at a faster rate or change matches on the head or scored the highest runs for eng,
IF KP is fit as he says and able to get his form and touch in county he will walk into the side ofcourse that is if he gets a clean slate hopefully from the managerial group.
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