Alec Stewart wants Kevin Pietersen’s row resolved - Cricket News Update
Former English captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alec-James-Stewart-c43081, believes that English Cricket Board (ECB) has every right to remain in control of its contracted players and no player is bigger than the team or the game.
“It's important to stress that no player, however good, is bigger than the team, and no one is irreplaceable,” Stewart wrote in his column for BBC after the Pietersen-ECB row intensified.
Following his Man-of-the-Match performance against the Proteas in the Leeds Test, Pietersen raised a storm with his post-match remarks where he admitted the uncertainty of his future as a Test player for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, and stopped short of confirming the Lord’s
Test as his last.
The right-handed batsman scored 149 in the first innings at Headingley and also took four wickets to help his side draw the Test on a strong footing. The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 batsman cited politics within the English Board and issues in the dressing room as obstacles
impeding him to carry on.
Admiring the ‘genius touches’ of his masterful innings, Stewart was sad to see the batsman making the headlines for all the wrong reasons, especially at a time when the home side needed to focus all their efforts to square the series.
“Following his comments after the Headingley Test, I'm very disappointed and sad that we are discussing Pietersen's Test future, rather than marvelling at what was a brilliant innings,” wrote http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stewart-c91370.
Earlier Pietersen announced his retirement from the ODI format of the game owing to the demands of the England’s cricketing schedule. However, the move back-fired and invited a lot of criticism, which led to his retirement from both, shorter formats of the
game.
The 49-year-old former wicket-keeper believes that as a player, Pietersen reserves the right to review his options if he’s facing any issue, while hoping that both parties reach to an amicable solution for the betterment of English cricket.
“However, I hope for his sake, for England's, and for the game as a whole, that international cricket is not deprived of his wonderful talent and that whatever decisions that are made are well thought through and without regrets,” Stewart concluded.
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