adminLONDON. — Kevin Pietersen was disruptive, divisive and disinterested during the disastrous Ashes tour Down Under last winter, according to a leaked England and Wales Cricket Board legal document.
The governing body have up until now denied the existence of the smoking-gun dossier. But a four-page document, created by the ECB legal team as they prepared a defence of what they knew would be a highly critical autobiography, catalogues a string of disruptive incidents.
In the dossier Pietersen, who releases his book today, is said to have taken young players on late nights out in Adelaide despite strict instructions to the contrary, ranted at the rest of the dressing room in Melbourne and slated Alastair Cook’s captaincy in Sydney.
In addition to his open animosity towards coach Andy Flower, above, he labelled the team “s***” and was openly critical of team-mates, calling opening batsman Michael Carberry “useless” in front of colleagues in the dressing room. — The Express.
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