Muscat: Former Captain’s star and Batting Kevin Pietersen said that it was “stupid” to blame the Indian Premier League to lose 0-4 that was embarrassing England to Australia in the ash series which was recently concluded.
England Great David Gower “disturbed” after the defeat of their ash and said the captain at this time Joe Root had players who were “not available” because IPL.
Pietersen, ash winner in 2005, 2009, 2010-11 and 2013, laughed at that comment.
“It’s stupid.
You can’t blame the IPL for the death of a test cricket in England.
It’s crazy.
I have commented a lot.
This is the system, it is a County cricket system, which is bad.
So there is no blame,” Pietersen, who represents the world giant Legends League Cricket here, said during the interaction here on Thursday.
“It’s crazy to blame the Indian Premier League because if you look at the test team, only there (Ben) Stokes (Jonny) Bairstow and (Jos) Buttler who plays IPL …” Almost no test team of players playing IPL …
So how Can you blame the IPL? You cannot blame the IPL.
This is crazy, “said the former Delhi IPL franchise captain.
Dead, England Cricketers also mired in controversy after a report claimed that there was a” culture of drinking “on the team with the players and trainers to drink late until the night before the police disbanded the session.
Pietersen said there was no harm Because players are influenced by strict bio-bubble limits.
“This makes stress.
This is very stressful.
I have never played in bubbles.
I can’t imagine but I think it must be very lonely.
“You are not allowed to go to the coffee shop.
You are not allowed to go to the restaurant, you are not allowed to do anything.
And what else do you do?” So I’m sure you have to have tried to find a kind of social activity in any way they consider suitable, “he said.
The previous 41-year-old player urged radical changes in the red ball format in England with a call to impose ‘one hundred’ templates in first grade matches Because he felt that the district championship standards had fallen.
Asked whether he saw himself a binding coach one day, Pietersen said, “We will see.
Maybe someday after Assam reported only one rinher’s death with last year’s hunter.
“Being a conservationist, I spent a lot of time in Africa.
The population of rhinos declined there and in India, the population of rhinos was rising,” he said.
“When I began to see the contrast between what happened in Africa and India, I found India is a conservation leader .
“This is a global conservation leader and more power to India because that’s the type of item I really love,” he said.