An administrator's most important skill is to find someone to blame for problems. The ECB's Dave Collier said it was the South Africans who provoked Kevin Pietersen into the exchange of messages that led to him being dropped by England. How Gary Kirsten must have twirled his imaginary moustache and laughed when the texting drama went down. If only South African officials were competent enough to blame a foreign hand for their team choking in world events.