And so it begins... and what a difference a month makes. Was it just over one short rotation of the moon ago that Kevin Pietersen, our very own KP, him with the three lions tattooed on his shoulder, was loudly declaring to the Torygraph that he wouldn’t jeopardise his England future by signing up for the Indian Premier League?Headlines like ‘KP rejects IPL’ and quotes like "...It's not something I'm particularly interested in ...Money's not really too important, it's not as if I need money right now. I'm really enjoying doing what I'm doing," would seem to have ruled KP out of any future IPL equation. It was heartening to see one of England’s premier stars publicly forsake the easy cash and make a stand on principle.
However clearly a month is a long time in cricket and talking to The Times via Sporting Life, KP has had a radical change of heart now insisting, “It's definitely something that the hierarchy needs to fix into our fixtures ...You want your best players playing for their country and for the IPL. You don't want them choosing between the two. It's silly to think that you're losing up to a million [dollars] over six weeks.”
Not as silly as playing in a meaningless Twenty20 thrash for a ton o’ cash, weeks before a vital home Ashes series though apparently.
Sometimes these things just write themselves.
Elsewhere in the world of cricket, former England quickie Andrew Caddick has declared
