Pietersen “relieved” to be out of England dressing-room

Kevin Pietersen leaving the field
Kevin Pietersen leaving the field

As England prepare to start their summer of Test cricket on Thursday, Kevin Pietersen has said that he is relieved to be out of the England dressing-room, claiming the “environment was poor” during England’s shambolic Ashes winter.

He also said that, contrary to some things that have been written, in particular the suggestion from England’s managing director Paul Downton that he was “disengaged”, his relationship with team-mates “was fine”.

Pietersen was dropped for good by England’s selectors after the series, a decision which continues to divide the cricket public, but in his first ghosted column with the Telegraph he said he, at least, had “moved on with my life”.

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