Kevin Pietersen is an idiot. One day that will become endearing and amusing and we’ll look upon his daftness with fondness and so on. But that moment hasn’t arrived yet. So, for the time being, we look at Pietersen and wonder what on earth is going on. No normal person would tell the Times that:
This is as absurd as Chris Adams’s claim that Mushtaq Ahmed was the finest cricketer who ever played for Sussex. I suppose we ask quite a lot of professional sportsmen, but is it too demanding to wonder if, from time to time, they might actually take the time to learn something about the game they play?“I truly believe Jacques Kallis is the greatest cricketer ever.”
UPDATE: A friend emails to point out that Pietersen has previous on this sort of thing: “Aggers was speaking to KP in the West Indies, and asked him whether he took advice from retired players.
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