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Johnny

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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2012, 09:03:28 AM »
Quote from: Spanky on August 07, 2012, 08:59:10 AM
Personally I don't feel KP is what he used to be batting wise....

Have you been living under a rock????! He just blazed 149 against arguably the best bowling attack in the world, including hitting the best fast bowler in the world straight back over his head for 6! This is after a couple of double centuries in the last 18 months, as well as his knock for Surrey v Lancs the other week - if anything Pieterson is back to his very best!

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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2012, 09:11:36 AM »
No appreciate recently he has had some great innings with the bat, but just feel it seems he only performs when he has another agenda. It's as if his recent performances are to make the England selectors question whether they should pick him for the twenty20 world cup and let him have his own way.

When he applies himself he can still bat but just feel at times he gets out because he isn't too bothered or interested.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2012, 09:14:54 AM »
I think that measured on talent alone KP would be a huge loss for the England team BUT his presence and current attitude could be quite divisive. How much effect is he having on the rest of the dressing room? If the answer is anything other than 'none' then I reckon Flower and Strauss will just cut him adrift.

Looking at it from their point of view you can't have a guy who wants to pick and choose what England games he plays....

He says it's absolutely not about money in the article but then says he wants to play the entire IPL and miss the early season England games.....Which one is it?
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2012, 09:20:21 AM »
Sky have a lot to answer for. They're the reason England have these Mickey Mouse Test series that begin increasingly early in the summer (!?). Two Tests in April/May against NZ - I'd let the ego play IPL, England would win anyway.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2012, 09:39:10 AM »
IMO I think it's a big shame, who can honestly say they don't look forward to KP walking out to bat in a test match?

BUT I can't see the ECB backing down, they want to preserve test cricket and not go down the awful road the West Indies have by letting players pick and choose what they want to do for the sake of the IPL.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2012, 09:42:27 AM »
The ECB want to save face.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2012, 09:45:22 AM »
The ECB also do not like KP - why else would they continually be leaking his discussions to the media...
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2012, 09:58:12 AM »
It's a known fact that KP is "Tolerated" in the dressing room rather than liked.

Whilst I personally love watching KP bat (be honest, who doesn't) I don't believe he should be treated different to anyone else and if this hissy fit does stem from the IPL argument then let him play IPL and get rid from the test team. If he is allowed to play how long until we start seeing the same thing happening with the next generation of cricketers? By getting rid of KP (arguably one of the most gifted players ever to play the game...and I said gifted, not best) it shows the current and next crop of players that no-one is bigger than the England team.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2012, 10:03:42 AM »
Let's face it no one is bigger than the game. There is life after KP
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2012, 10:06:03 AM »
The thing is, whatever you may think of his strutting peacock act, Pietersen does kind of have a point about his dealings with the ECB.

Post Freddie, he is their most marketable player - some would say that in overseas territories he may be their only one.  As a result, they feel obliged to play him in every game going to appease home boards and TV rights holders and as such, its not unreasonable that he might feel a little jaded, and a bit hacked off when its seperately deemed okay for Strauss, Broad, Anderson, Swann et al to be rested.

Add in a meaningless series against a Kiwi side shorn of its only two world class players...

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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2012, 10:13:21 AM »
Do you like everyone you work with?
A cricket team is made up of individuals who are responsible for their own performances.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #26 on: August 07, 2012, 10:16:21 AM »
Quote from: Manormanic on August 07, 2012, 10:06:03 AM
The thing is, whatever you may think of his strutting peacock act, Pietersen does kind of have a point about his dealings with the ECB.

Post Freddie, he is their most marketable player - some would say that in overseas territories he may be their only one.  As a result, they feel obliged to play him in every game going to appease home boards and TV rights holders and as such, its not unreasonable that he might feel a little jaded, and a bit hacked off when its seperately deemed okay for Strauss, Broad, Anderson, Swann et al to be rested.

Add in a meaningless series against a Kiwi side shorn of its only two world class players...



Agree totally - also, what was the comeback for Swann's comments about KP? Nothing. They're hanging him out to dry to protect their face and income (which is what all ECB admin really care about in the end).

To go OTT, this is another nail in Test cricket's coffin. Attendances in England are falling, and throwing out the baby with the bathwater so earnest Englishmen like Joe Root get games will only end in tears. Would you pay £90 to watch a KP-less England bat?
p.s. Do NZ have world class players?
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #27 on: August 07, 2012, 10:17:18 AM »
Quote from: Alvaro on August 07, 2012, 06:02:39 AM
I hope you're being sarcastic.

Not at all. I can't stand KP.
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #28 on: August 07, 2012, 10:19:05 AM »
Quote from: Alvaro on August 07, 2012, 10:16:21 AM
To go OTT, this is another nail in Test cricket's coffin. Attendances in England are falling, and throwing out the baby with the bathwater so earnest Englishmen like Joe Root get games will only end in tears. Would you pay £90 to watch a KP-less England bat?
p.s. Do NZ have world class players?

I think Joe Root is a bit better than earnest - in fact, I reckon he'll go on to score pretty near to 8'000 test runs.  But at this point in time, England do not need to be bringing him in for KP when Taylor is new to the international game and Strauss getting close to his last legs. 
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Re: KP having another hissy fit......
« Reply #29 on: August 07, 2012, 10:21:02 AM »
I say drop him before the next test   :D
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