Kevin Pietersen was peculiarly charmless, even by his own high standards, shortly after leading England to one of their most abject performances in any form of cricket in the Stanford 20/20 match. Did he mention how well Sir Allen Stanford’s West Indian team, an adept mix of old sweats and feisty tyros, had played as they whopped England? Not a word. He didn’t mention that the Stanford team had outbowled, outcaught, outfielded and out-thought England at every stage.
This series has brought out some of the worst in grumpy English sportsmanship. Talking to the press after the game, Pietersen said: ‘We concentrated too much on the peripherals… There were just a lot of distractions… Coming into this week there was huge, huge uncertainty.’ But as for the result, KP opined: ‘You look at the smiles on the faces of some of those boys who basically have nothing and it brings a smile to my face to see how happy they are.’
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