I think his return (pre injury on Wed) to the IPL (and the Caribbean) says a lot about the man imo, he should have stayed here for the summer scored tonnes of runs in the county game and made it impossible for him not to be picked if he really wanted to play for England like he claims. But he's a 'gun for hire' after all
Personally I tend to agree with what Strauss called KP on air.
The Simon Bates ourtune is great.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/32720069
Wait what? He missed out on £250k because the new incoming chairman publicly stated that if he were to score runs in County cricket that it would be impossible to ignore him as a player for England. So he tears up his £250k contract because he really wants to play for his country again, and then pretty much when the IPL is almost over, gets told that he won't play for England this summer after all, so basically his time and money have been completely wasted. And to add insult to injury, he's offered an advisory position to the one-day team! What a ridiculous situation. After all of that, I can't believe you expect him to stay here and continue playing when they've made it perfectly clear that there's nothing left here for him.
And what makes him the expletive that Strauss called him on air? (Let's just ignore the fact that the person that acted in such an unprofessional manner is now the new director of English cricket, who also kept his job as a commentator for Sky following the incident). Do you know him personally? Do you know the ins and outs of what went on in the dressing room prior to him being dropped in 2014? How do you know it was all caused by him? How do you know that there isn't a bullying culture in place by Cook, Anderson, and Broad? From what we've currently seen, Cook is absolutely impossible to remove no matter how little he's contributing to the team, so he has a free pass to everything. Can you be 100% certain that Pieterson wasn't made a scapegoat for everything that happened? And anyway, a lot of good it all did. Does it seem like the team got better after getting rid of Pieterson? I sure haven't seen them be better since then. They're an absolute shambles right now and are in dire need of a strong, capable player to bring them back into the now. That person isn't Cook, who the ECB seem to be hanging onto with all their hope pinned on him. He's been struggling for form for over two years, and his little burst in the West Indies, against a team that is struggling to make a name for themselves again, wasn't anything to be proud of. He certainly won't do that against a NZ or Australian bowling attack. And his lack of form is having an extremely negative impact on the rest of the team because they're having to try to carry him and they just can't. You need a strong opener that can make a good start. It's just to slow with him and then he usually goes out LBW, caught behind or dragging the ball onto his stumps. Utterly wasteful.
At the end of the day KP's an exceptional player with a strong character who definitely needs some managing, but if the management can't handle that from a player that consistently produces and is currently in great form, then what's the point of having them? Shane Warne was and still is of similar character to Pieterson, but Australia knew how important it was for him to play. They didn't remove him when he became difficult, they worked through it. Andrew Flintoff himself stated that if the England team worked the way that it does now when he played, that they probably wouldn't have a team due to the difficulties of managing many of the players, but in his era they were a team that consistently produced results.
The way that all of this has played out is appalling and regardless of what people think of KP, he doesn't deserve to be strung along, losing out on a huge salary for what would likely have been an amazingly entertaining bout with the IPL, only for him to then be told the exact same thing again and again. It's a load of rubbish and the ECB have a lot to answer for. Whether that'll ever happen though, is another story.
Pus Leics have made 470 in their second innings so I don't think it's moving much.