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October 16, 2011
England coach Andy Flower has made clear his opinion that autobiographies by current players are a bad idea after the publishing of excerpts from Graeme Swann's new book, The Breaks are Off, in the national press. The published sections included Swann's claims that Kevin Pietersen was never the right man to captain England and does not command respect in the same way as the more reserved Andrew Strauss.
Flower was comforted by Pietersen's "mature handling" of the situation and insisted the players remain friends, but when asked whether he believes players should wait until professional retirement to air critiques of their team-mates, he said: "That's my personal opinion, yes.
"Personally, I do not think it's a good idea for players to discuss their current teammates The written word is everywhere very differently -. When you can not judge the tone of a person, all this has been addressed -. house without many problems. Pietersen and Swann make do, and I think Pietersen has managed very mature. "
Pietersen was appointed England captain in August 2008 but his tenure lasted only five months after a spat with much media attention, and coach Peter Moores. Strauss then took the role and under his leadership, was appointed England team in the world Test No. 1.
Pietersen stay with a 0-5 day series loss to India in 2008, which included his last ODI hundred - 111 across six wicket loss in Cuttack. Captain Pietersen has been stripped of Soon after this, and since then has averaged just 22.74 one-day cricket.
Be returned to Test cricket and Twenty20 consistent, however, and drummer Flor support to help tell the other four games of the series for England against India. "It is actually in pretty good shape," said Flores. "The way in other formats in English last summer was exceptional. Must be able to get done here, and I hope so."
Flower admitted that England had been dominated by India in the 126-run loss on Friday, but said his team had the skills and character to fight and turn around the series.
"This group of English cricketers have been shown to have a strong character, and I expect to recover We have been defeated by the Indians at this time we are out-lined -.. What is not often we did not deserve to -. And win the game, but there is one up to five-match series, we are going to try to do something that in Delhi.
"Our problem was that we were not able to manipulate the spinners, as they did in the middle of -. transfer catalyst in a series of wickets in that period there were many aspects of the game that were good -. [Alastair] Cook, his beautiful, while running, the ball went But more importantly, we have under-do. "
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