Pietersen calls for end to non-stop itinerary

Yanked from pillar to post by their ludicrous itinerary, England's cricketers are playing from memory, on auto pilot, rather than with real zest and focus, writes Simon Hughes in The Telegraph.

Kevin Pietersen, who made 33, 9 and 0 in the three matches, was honest enough to admit it. "I'm just exhausted," he said yesterday, looking it. A few days' break in the South of France can't come fast enough. "The winter was so hard - the Champions Trophy, getting yourself pumped up for every day of the Ashes, then the World Cup rattling into the Test series against the West Indies just 10 days later. I got a hundred and a double hundred and all that and it's just finished me off."