So he didnt like the bowlers (4 players). Didnt like the wicket keeper (1 player). Not keen on the captain (1 player). Not complimentry about Carberry (1 player). He was not keen on the coach. So what have you got left? 3 players other than himself? How can a team operate like that?

Then if you look at the team Prior and Swann did not play in the last two tests.

4th Test

A N Cook*        
M A Carberry        
J E Root        
K P Pietersen   
I R Bell   
B A Stokes   
J M Bairstow†   
T T Bresnan   
S C J Broad   
J M Anderson   
M S Panesar

5th Test

A N Cook*   
M A Carberry   
I R Bell   
K P Pietersen   
G S Ballance    
B A Stokes   
J M Bairstow†   
S G Borthwick   
S C J Broad   
J M Anderson    
W B Rankin

So is it basically Broad and Anderson that caused him problems?

Parkinson's law of triviality!

At times like this, ‘Parkinson’s law of triviality’ springs to mind: the idea, expounded by Cyril Northcote Parkinson almost 70 years ago, that large organisations spend a disproportionate amount of time preoccupied with such petty issues as where to locate the staff bike shed. This, then, is the ECB’s ‘bike shed’ moment, seeing as the board’s findings are fit purely for the playground.

Parkinson intended his argument to be a spoof of the management world, so often mired in the peripheral and inconsequential, but it is likely he would have found the ECB impossible to parody. Every one of its accusations against Pietersen has the ring of desperation.

I follow Cricket but not as closely as I follow Rugby and Horse Racing so it's nice to get the views of the people that do.

It's a much more balanced take on the issue on here than it is in the papers.

I can see why he would have problems with Broad and Swann as the twitter account clearly got under his skin.I would find it hard to believe they were not behind it.

I wonder what made him turn on Matt Prior.

unless, of course, he's benefitted hugely from leaks from certain players or organisations and feels obliged to tell their side of the story.

I am not having a go at T20.  It is a legitimate form of Sports Entertainment like American Wrestling WWE. I just like Test Cricket as the pure form of the game.

Only kidding Grant. I have come to look dowm my snooty nose at T20 and if truth be told rather enjoy it particularly the IPL. the only thing about T20 is I really don't care who wins. I just want to be entertained.

Test Cricket is a different matter. It mean's something to me. I still like to watch the best of the foreigners and would often rather be entertained by the greats of the game like a Dale Steyn or AB or a host of batsmen perform well ( except of course any Australian }. But when we lose and play badly it disturbs and upsets me.

There is nothing like Test Cricket for me.

injera, think swann even went to the xmas pish up after announcing he was retiring before flying home !

and as you say the selection and handling of the fringe players was mismanagement on a grand scale

pretty clear flower was determined to take KP with him when he left whatever it took

Pietersen's problem with Prior is that Prior's attitude and behaviour are those of which Pietersen has been accused.

There is also the problem that Prior's injuries made him a complete liability for England, yet there was no question that the Big Cheese would continue to play whenever he fancied. Prior has been completely gone as a cricketer for the last two seasons.

Pietersen, by contrast, was forced to play through the pain of dodgy knees and was still England's best batsman. He couldn't crouch in the gully, so was forced to field in the most unpleasant place in world cricket - an Australian boundary. His reward? When Paul Downton finally turned up to watch a match, he decided Pietersen needed to be sacked for being remote and unhappy on the field.

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Re Daily Mail reader frog2's naive repetition of the accusation Pietersen turned on long-time Hants buddy Carberry:

michael carberry @carbs646  ·  11h 10 hours ago
Morning!!Just to set the record straight re: @KP24 .Ive never had any issues with Kev. We have always got on well and still do
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Personally I detest this workplace culture where little men like Prior, Broad and Anderson resort to endless sniping and cliques of Good Old Boys to protect themselves against their own litany of inadequacies and blunders.

screaming from beneaththewaves, What about the other six players and coaches he didnt get on with?

Either the guy was a trouble maker if he did not have things his own way or the whole thing was a conspiracy to get rid of him. But why did the management wait so long? They had a chance when he lost the captaincy, when he texted the SA players, when he retired because he didnt get his way over 20/20.

I think management hung onto him for as long as they could but in the end the situation was so bad they needed a fresh start. With Moores back as coach I dont see how it could have worked.

What else could England do? The options were to pick the bowlers, wicketkeeper and coach KP liked and make KP captain or get rid of him.

The Prior situation was shocking this summer. It was quite clear he was not fit to play and those in charge were clearly not up to the task.

I am getting a little fed up with the tit fot tat going on all around. People who are " supporting " Pietersen clearly agree he can be an obnoxious twaite and up his own rectum. That is not the point.

The Trott situation is almost forgotten. That is such a serious abdication of responsibility. I am still shocked at the image of Trott's face grinning wildly as MJ was nailing him to the cross. We treat animals less badly in this country.

There are plenty of other things that Pietersen has brought up and they need addressing. His character flaws should not be an issue. We are all flawed in one way or another. The management should have dealt with it long ago and as far as I am concerned they should be in the frame too. Flower is still in the set up and maybe he shouldn't be.

There was obviously a lot going on and the more I read I'm inclined to feel a bit more sympathetic towards Pietersen

It is very difficult as Pietersen,great player though he could be,has always given the impression he is a long way up himself. However the same is true of Broad and Swann,the latter has sounded a prat on the radio this summer. Pietersen seems to have some support that the bowlers were " bullying "inexperienced players. I agree that Prior should not have been playing the last year or two but not sure why Pietersen has it in for him.

Surprised Pietersen has so much support on this thread.

A player could not realistically do more to mark himself out as an undermining pr1ck.  So you cannot work with someone like that, end of story.  It is pointless saying Vaughan and Fletcher managed it etc, they were not handed the baton that Moores, Strauss, Flower were given.  Cook I exclude from this to some extent because he encouraged Pietersen back into the fold for some unknowable reason, so he deserves what he gets from Pietersen.

Fletcher presided over some of the worst examples of mismanagement I have ever seen if you think back to the Vaughan-Flintoff-Strauss-Flintoff-Vaughan captaincy changes, at least the last two of which were patently ludicrous.  Add to that the Giles-Panesar-Giles-Panesar changes.  Fletcher and the selectors at the time clearly and very foolishly believed that if you were out with a long term injury you had the right to be reinstated to your previous post regardless of your form and suitability for the post versus other contenders.  Vaughan was party to all this so should not be making out he is some sort of cricket management guru.

So your starting position is Pietersen has shown himself over the long course of events to be too big a risk as to whether he can be managed and whether he can be trusted to act in the team interest.  So the question for me is not why they failed him, but why on earth they favoured him to the extent they did.

None of this means that other players should not be strongly dealt with for behaving counter-productively.  But Broad, Swann, Prior, Anderson and whoever else are not known to serially act against their team's interests, so you might have a bit more confidence that you could sort out any issues with them and carry on the better for it. 

Pietersen, nobody is sorting that shyte out as long as he lives.  I mean, have a read of his answers in this interview:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/787933.html

Compare and contrast with things Pietersen said publicly about Flower for example in the past, where he fawned over Flower.  Pietersen says his big mistake is that he was "too honest."  FFS. 

I had to look twice to check this wasn't the parody twitter account.  So much of what he says is incoherent. 

Criticise the management of the England team for all they have done wrong and there have been plenty of things.  Don't criticise them for getting one decision right, albeit many years too late. I doubt the person lives who can manage Pietersen effectively if he thought he was in a position to undermine them.

On Radio now!

Talk Sport.

Bound to be the same old same old. Frankly I doubt there will be much new here, He has got his PR hat on.

I hope they talk about Trott.

Boycott told Cricinfo: “I’d be miffed if my career had been finished for no reasons given. It’s actually a pretty big thing when you’ve got a very talented player … and a country says: ‘Fine, we want to move on without you.’ I think [both parties] have a duty to the public to say what their reasons are.”

A document has leaked into the public domain, containing what appears to be an England and Wales Cricket Board log of Pietersen’s alleged misdemeanours during the 2013-14 Ashes. There has been no official reaction, though, from the governing body to the publication of Pietersen’s autobiography.

Boycott is particularly frustrated by the vacuum of information that persisted through a difficult summer for England, after Pietersen and his former employers agreed a near eight-month confidentiality clause.

“In a free democratic society, which we live in, people are entitled to [hear] their views – both sides. So he’s entitled to his, but also the ECB should have spoken out at the time.

“I think both of them should have spoken out at the time. It was too big an issue to just wait for a moratorium for October 1 – far too big an issue.”

As for the ill-fitting working relationship between Pietersen and Flower, Boycott added: “You have two people who resent the situation, both in prime positions – one the best batsman and the other the coach in charge. That’s a recipe for disaster, isn’t it?

“I’m not surprised it spilled over, and eventually he’s having his say, because I feel there was so much ill-feeling from that moment Kevin was sacked as captain and Flower was promoted from assistant coach to the coach.”

Sounds like the players and coaches managed to put up with him for 104 tests until his form and prospects meant he wasn't worth the trouble anymore so they dumped him.  Reflects terribly on all concerned.

The thing that really annoys me though is the total lack of proper explanation for the complete disintegration in Australia.  The focus was solely on Pietersen but whatever his faults he wasn't the reason we got stuffed.  In that respect I do think he's been made the scapegoat for a dressing room far more brittle than previously thought.

Come on now, from those outside of England supporters, this is the view, that most of you now have.  Was obvious what was really going on.  I stated it over and again, and was shot down by nearly every one on this thread for saying it.

Amazing what happens when a second side to the story does.

Got the book, can't put it down.

Ok it's only one side of the story but very good!

The chapter called The Woodpecker (Moores) and the Captain (Kp) is hilarious!!!!!!!

Never warmed to KP and in this book he seems to fall out with a lot of people, but...characters are what makes life interesting and he wasn't afraid to speak his mind.

I like that.

At times he speaks directly to Flower and The Big Cheese (Prior). That's a bit odd but perhaps understandable.

He's defo chippy and hard to handle but yet another genius sportsman the establishment falls out with. Happens across all sports..

Good batsman. 'Genius' is going a bit far if you ask me.

what seems to have been forgotten in this by pundits and his so called team mates alike is that it is likely none of the major accomplishments by the england team in the last 10 years would have happened without him and by major i mean the ashes in 2005 and 2010/11, world T20 in 2010 and india away in 2012

saved the day at the oval in 2005, quite probable the adelaide test in 2010 would have been drawn without his super fast double hundred - it pished down for the rest of day an hour after england won, man of tourney in 2010 and with alistair cook's help turned that india series around

meow