ArchiveMay 11, 2015

Strauss and Pietersen: the moment of truth

I can now reveal that Andrew Strauss and Tom Harrison asked to see KP tonight. I believe to tell him he wouldn't play for England again. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 11, 2015 This Tweet has an indelible ring of truth to it. Pietersen himself – fresh from his 326 not out for Surrey against Leicestershire today – has also confirmed personally that a meeting will take place tonight. But why would Harrison and Strauss wish to see him unless to convey (for him) bad news...

Oh, what a tangled web they weave

The ECB long since resembled less an administrative body than a Shakespearean tragedy, but even by their own Byzantine standards the last few days have really taken the biscuit. And there is more to come. If this is Macbeth, we are still only on Act Four. For all this saga’s twists and turns of bloody-handed usurpation and toxified king-making, perhaps, though, the Scottish play is a less fitting analogy than I, Claudius – with Livia tiptoeing past the corpses to plot her next...

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