Kevin Pietersen has admitted that England director of cricket Andrew Strauss made the right decision in omitting him from the Ashes squad to face Australia, after Alastair Cook’s team regained the urn.
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In that time, English cricket has seen two coaching changes, as well as former captain Strauss assuming responsibility for the running of the national side.
“Some of the stuff he has done with the England team and getting past players into the dressing room is brilliant because I think there is so much knowledge we missed out on for the last three or four years of my career where we could have had that input from outside the dressing room”.
Pietersen was dropped by England following the Ashes whitewash in Australia over the winter of 2013-14 but was told a fine showing at county level could result in a recall prior to the visits of New Zealand and the Aussies.
It was a decision which did not go down well with Pietersen, or his many advocates.
Six months later his autobiography was published, including criticism of the England and Wales Cricket Board and former England team-mates.
“I might have said something stronger to him”.
“I am not saying they don’t get paid well now, and some of us playing franchise cricket earn some very good money, but we should all be saying we want to be playing Test cricket, that’s where we all want to be”. If that can’t happen then I will just keep plying my trade anywhere I can over the next few years, ‘ he said.
‘I would love to play Test cricket.
“I went there with a lot of positivity and left with quite a bit of negativity. I’m dwelling my life”. “I don’t draw back to a meeting in May and think “goodness how things could been different”.
The 35-year-old’s future appears to be purely Twenty20 based with next year’s inaugural Pakistan Super League his latest undertaking, and Pietersen insists he has reconciled himself with the suggestion that a reintegration to Test cricket looks a bleak prospect.
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As properly as turning out for Surrey this yr, he has represented St Lucia Zouks within the Caribbean Premier League and just lately signed for the Dolphins within the South African Twenty20.
