Kevin Pietersen treated like outcast: Shane Warne
With the Ashes 2010 only three days away from its start, former Australian and English cricketers have also joined the fray in the mind games. Aussie Shane Warne, one who was never shy of speaking his
mind, has said that his former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789 team-mate Kevin Pietersen was being mistreated by the English manager. He also added that Pietersen was made to feel like an outcast.
Speaking to an Australian newspaper, the
Courier Mail, Warne cited the example of how Pietersen was axed from the role of the captain after being in the job for a very short time. Pietersen had a fall-out with the coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Moores-c81848 and both were shown the door.
Warne noted, "The way they have treated him is ordinary and he has been made to feel as if he is a bit of an outcast.” Warne also admitted that Pietersen did have the tendency to get into the wrong books
of people but when it came to the Ashes, he had to be allowed to feel important by the team management.
This is not the first time that Pietersen has been a topic of discussion in the lead-up to the Ashes. Former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Buchanan-c48808 had earlier said that Pietersen could be the man responsible for
dividing the English dressing room to which Pietersen had responded by saying that Buchanan was a nobody.
Later, Andy Flower, England’s coach, refuted the claims that Pietersen was an outcast and said that Pietersen was involved in the team as much as anyone else.
Pietersen had been earlier afforded a break from the ODI squad that was to play against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and he responded by writing a foul-mouthed message on his Twitter account. Despite showing a slight improvement
in the form, Pietersen has shown his fallibility against left-arm spinners and that is the one reason why Xavier Doherty could play in the first Ashes Test at Brisbane.
Warne also said that the former English captain Michael Vaughan was too cocky for the way he had branded the Aussies as failures.
The first Ashes Test will be played at Gabba in Brisbane from November 25.
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