England cricket team is a worse side without Kevin Pietersen – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nasser-Hussain-c78777 – Cricket News Update
England’s former top-order batsman, Nasser Hussain, on Sunday admitted that the England cricket team without likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 is a worse side, especially when playing the in-form formidable South African contingent.
Speaking to media reporters, the cricketer turned commentator said that the Proteas would no doubt be happy after knowing thahttp://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472 they won’t be countering Kevin Pietersen’s blitz in the crucial series finale, which gets underway at Lord's, on Thursday, August 16, 2012.
"English cricket are a worse side without him in the side,” said the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 skipper, a veteran of 96 Tests and 88 ODIs.
“http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Smith-c1473 and the rest of the South African team will be sitting there right now and are thinking it is great that Kevin Pietersen is not playing for England,” he added further.
Kevin Pietersen, the 32-year-old Natal-born hard-hitting batsman, who scored match-saving 149 during the drawn Headingley Test last week, was on Sunday left out of the squad to play in the third and final Investec Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, at the home of cricket.
England cricket managing director http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 to some South African players, during second Test.
Nasser Hussain said that Pietersen’s exclusion came as a surprise to him, however, he blamed the player for the latest proceedings, saying his bad decision making has cost him his place in the side, despite performing tremendously well in the previous game.
"I was a little bit surprised. It is not often a player gets 149 in a Test match and is left out the next week," the former England skipper told Sky Sports News.
"No Pietersen does make England a slightly weaker side, but you can't have this all the time where the focus is on one person when it has to be on the team," he added further.
South Africa currently lead the three-Test series 1-0 and need only to avoid a defeat in the series finale, at Lord’s to clinch the series and dethrone England as world’s best Test side.
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