Friday, 7 February 2014

ECB refuses to explain Kevin Pietersen exit decision

England's decision to end Kevin Pietersen's international career is still shrouded in confusion after national selector James Whitaker refused to divulge the reasons for it.

Whitaker would only say it was time to "rebuild" and "reignite the passion" amongst the England players following a disastrous Ashes tour.

Indicating there were legal restrictions in place, Whitaker said: "We are in a precarious situation in terms of what we can say."

This line about there are legal constraints so I can’t say anything is bulls**t, what it really means is there is no justification for us dropping Pietersen but rather than admit that and make ourselves look bad we’ll have the lawyers draw up some bogus agreement that nobody can say anything and that way we don’t have to explain ourselves.

In principal that doesn’t sound too bad, but what Whitaker and co. don’t seem to be aware of is that the questions won’t relent until somebody does offer some explanations, even if it is years later and they'll look just as stupid then as they do now. 

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