Why would you drop KP? Cutting your nose off to spite your face there i'm afraid

Why?

12 in the first ODI
17 in the second ODI
12 in the Twenty20
3 today

What, exactly, is there in those figures to suggest he should get an automatic place? Or that it'd be 'cutting your nose off'? He's in a distinct lack of form and, arguably, the biggest ego in the squad. There's other players who'd be dropped for scores like that, why should he be an exception?

Just witnessing a slaughter on a grand scale on Sky Sports 1 right now. Crap England - just plain crap.

Unmitigated w*nk.

Can't wait for the Ashes this year. Bring it on

WTF?

90 from 8 and a half overs. Fook me.

He's class,

Come off it, the poor little lamb is bored and exhausted by the media attention (which he does his best to discourage at all times).

We should get behind our lion hearted hero at times like this.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 969926.stm Has he ever heard of irony??? How he, of all people, can have a go and say that Chanderpaul only bats for himself beggars belief...and as for the annual "tired" b[iul[/il - Im sure he won't be too tired when he's playing in the IPL will he??

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 969926.stm Has he ever heard of irony??? How he, of all people, can have a go and say that Chanderpaul only bats for himself beggars belief...and as for the annual "tired" b[iul[/il - Im sure he won't be too tired when he's playing in the IPL will he??

Interesting how Chanderpaul himself has kept silent in all of this. Do you know why? Because he's the number one batsman in the world and he lets his cricket do the talking. KP would do well to learn from him rather than slag him off. Prat.

Have to agree, I really am not sure what Pietersen aimed to achieve by slagging off Chanderpaul. It just seems a silly thing to do. That doesnt mean I'd go and drop the best batsman we have.

Anyway, pleased to see England actually bat like they were playing a ODI yesterday, made a pleasant change.