After a series of bizarre twists and turns the ECB has decided they have had enough of Kevin Pietersen’s recent antics and have dropped him from the England squad for the third test against South Africa, this decision comes after Pietersen performed a u-turn on his retirement from the one day cricket and maybe Twenty-20 and pledged to commit himself to all forms of the game for England.
It’s a brave move by the ECB to drop England’s best player, but it is the correct one they have to show they are the ones in charge and can’t let Pietersen call the shots, his contradictory nature in the last week shows that maybe he isn’t in the right frame of mind to be playing in such a crucial game.
His public comments might have also meant that his presence in the dressing room could have been a distraction to the other players, let’s hope with him out of the picture Strauss and co. can win the third test against South Africa, level the series and keep their no.1 test ranking.
While being dropped may dent Pietersen’s ego a little bit, if he keeps his mouth shut then it won’t be very long before he’s back in the side, because he’s simply too good to be left out on a consistent basis and if he was he would almost certainly retire.
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