Just OK not OK for KP

Kevin Pietersen’s name is being lent to many products at the moment, predictably enough – but he hasn’t even played the new computer game named after him.

And, finds Brian Viner in The Independent, Pietersen has changed within just a year. But is it a surprise?

Superstardom appears to have turned the appealing brashness into arrogance. He has also cultivated that affectation particular to self-absorbed sportsmen, of referring to himself in the third person.

Still, who cares what Pietersen is like when he bats like a god?