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CricketWrite.Com I have joined together with two friends to launch a new cricket web site at www.cricketwrite.com. The idea is to provide a site for amateur cricket writers throughout the world to have articles published. I will be contributing articles on a regular basis. Below are some of the articles written by myself that appear on the site. Nothing Much to Write Home About
I made the following comments on this web site regarding the resignation of England cricket captain:
So Kevin Pietersen has resigned as captain of the England cricket team and coach Peter Moores has been sacked. Whilst the latter comes as a surprise to me, the former doesn't. Readers of this site might be aware that I am involved in an international cricket web site www.cricketwrite.com When Pieterson was appointed I made the following comment:
"Does Pietersen have the right credentials? Only time will tell. On the evidence to date I have doubts. Pietersen will need to curb his egocentric outlook and bouts of excessive behaviour."
I read an interesting article in today's Times newspaper by columnist Simon Barnes whilst waiting to have my teeth cleaned at the dentist. It commented on Pietersen's egocentric behaviour in the following manner:
"He has never quite got his mind around the fact that there are people who do their stuff in the world for reasons entirely unrelated to Kevin Pietersen."
Barnes goes on to liken Pietersen to another of my anti-heroes Geoffrey Boycott:
"They share a strange bewilderment that other people fail to see the world in the same terms, as a Boycott-centric, or a KP-centric, place."
Arrogance to the nth degree and it has been no surprise to me that Pietersen has lasted just a few months. He was scarcely the man for the job in the first place. In Andrew Strauss the country has a much more solid man - perhaps lacking in the same panache as Pietersen but certainly much more dependable.
I was saddened to see Moores go. He did a top class job at Sussex and was an inspirational speaker when he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton on the same day that my eldest son graduated. He talked about motivation and the part it played in enhancing performance. Possibly the complex politics of being a national coach and the obvious arguments between himself and Pietersen compounded problems. The irony of the situation is that Pietersen will continue to play for England as one of the world's great attacking batsmen and Moores will have little problem finding a new position. Both will stay very much within the sport. It's just disappointing that it couldn't be for the benefit of the national team and rather sums up the egos that seem to fly around in top level sport.
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