Five things from KP's autobiography
In his blog for the Australian, Gideon Haigh lists down the five main things he derived from Kevin Pietersen's autobiography, even though the book has been thoroughly reviewed, he says
07-Nov-2014
In his blog for the Australian, Gideon Haigh lists down the five main things he derived from Kevin Pietersen's autobiography, even though the book has been thoroughly reviewed, he says. They include the IPL, his press conferences, KP's inner voice of insecurity, and much more.
The most engrossing sections of KP have received no attention at all, as they concern neither Andy Flower nor IPL and are not readily reducible to a tweet. They concern the interior 'voice' of insecurity that Pietersen says he has never stopped hearing.
The position of Strauss, a new captain dealing with a controversial predecessor, anxious about perceptions, striving to be even-handed, is never considered. In Pietersen's febrile imagination, it could only have been an act of spite, and his gorge rose not just at receiving no for an answer, but from knowing he had to accept it. For the moment. Because on February 6 2009, during the First Test in Kingston, he was sold in the IPL auction for $1.55 million. And it was then, one suspects, he began to think that no was not an answer he would need to accept indefinitely.