It's Tough Being Me - The Kevin Pietersen Story

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That's the one thing that would really have thrown the biggest spanner in the ECB works, him making a heap of runs this year.

Wouldn't have proven a thing and they lost to SL anyway

 

[harsh.ag]

This is going to get worse before it gets better, it seems.

Anyways, my main gripe with the whole thing is not being able to watch KP bat in tests, which i really want to do. I had been looking forward to 5 more years of him after all my favorites retired together, Dravid, Laxman, Ponting, and Tendulkar.

Now, we just have a perennially injured Clarke, and a perennially horny Kohli. ABdV and Amla essentially the only rays of sunshine in test batting masterclasses right now.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Wouldn't have proven a thing and they lost to SL anyway

Nah, if he played 50% plus of the season in the CC and was making tons when they were beating SL, in front of the English supporters, it would have been even better as a neutral observer.

 

[YorksLanka]

i have to say we wouldnt have won that series if KP was playing imho..

 

[Spikey]

yeah if KP, instead of being the only player putting up less runs than cook, was scoring tons, things would have been so crazy

 

[YorksLanka]

still it was great being at Headingley to watch us break Anderson and making him cry like a girl...

 

[Spark]

So apparently the ECB considers Stuart Broad a "young player": http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/DOWNLOAD/100/0135/KP.pdf

Also can't spell their captain's name correctly.

 

[BoyBrumby]

That's the one thing that would really have thrown the biggest spanner in the ECB works, him making a heap of runs this year.

yeah if KP, instead of being the only player putting up less runs than cook, was scoring tons, things would have been so crazy

That's the problem though, he's barely playing. & not scoring runs in the one format he still does grace with his presence.

I've no doubt there are some weapons grade tools in the England dressing room, but one of the defining characteristics of everywhere Pietersen has been is that it's ended badly with bitter recriminations from each side. Look at it this way; Swann & Strauss are about as different characters as one is likely to find (gobby, maverick show-off smart arse/straight-laced, true blue, by the numbers ex-public schoolie) and he's managed to end up on the outers with both of them.

The irony of it all is that he patently always wanted to be treated as a special case (time off for the IPL, etc) and then complains when he is singled out.

 

[Spark]

These are the "two young players" in question ftr:

 

[harsh.ag]

That he was given a place on the England Greatest ATXI Team while he was just 6 years into his career, ahead of the likes of Compton, May and Sutcliffe, makes me think that everyone did treat him as a special case

 

[Cabinet96]

Is that not just a fan in the middle, with the other 'young player' out of shot?

 

[Cabinet96]

That he was given a place on the England Greatest ATXI Team while he was just 6 years into his career, ahead of the likes of Compton, May and Sutcliffe, makes me think that everyone did treat him as a special case

Talking about Cricinfo's one? That was only 4 years into his career...

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Is anyone surprised that this is all coming out, no doubt there is more to come from both sides of the argument.

At least we have no games coming up and this will be long forgotten by the time we next play a test match.

 

[Cabinet96]

Just read the dossier. Pretty hypocritical to berate a "bullying culture" then tell other players to get a thicker skin when his best mate is calling them cowards, call everyone a "bunch of ****s", ask if there isn't anyone better than Michael Carberry available and berate people for trying to galvanise the team.

As others have said, no one has come out of this at all well, and it's all very sad.

 

[GIMH]

Where can one read the dossier?

 

[WalkingWicket]

Where can one read the dossier?

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/DOWNLOAD/100/0135/KP.pdf

Right here.

 

[GIMH]

Thanks

Based on the dossier, if it's factual, then he fully deserved the chop

 

[sledger]

Yeah, this is absolutely terrible. Some of the things said in respect of the young players and Carberry and so on are despicably poor.

 

[Viscount Tom]

i have to say we wouldnt have won that series if KP was playing imho..

Thing is it wasn't the guys who replaced him failing.

Pretty funny in some respects that dossier.

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah one of Ballance or Root wouldn't have played if KP had. They were our two best batsman in the summer so even if he played well (not something he'd really done for 18 months) it wouldn't have made a hugely significant difference.