With regard to Pietersen I am loathed to criticize him as up until 18 months ago he had carried our batting for nearly 3 years.

You can’t live on past glories forever though.

It’s hard to know whether it’s Pietersen stubbornness, that maybe he thinks he will, in time, come through the other side if he keeps doing what he has always done.

Maybe he also dosen’t acknoledge he has technical problems?, who knows with him?

One disappointment I did have with him is that he didn’t try to rectify anything (well he didn’t appear to anyway), the fact that in SA he just kept on swinging away.

Someone in the England camp must have pointed things out to him and he must have just ignored it, which is disappointing.

I’m sure he will put things right in his own time, he’s too good not to.

He could be at a crossroads in his career, does he carry on in his cavalier way? Getting out in the 90′s trying to hit people out of the ground.

Or does he take a look at the manner of some of his dismissals and realise that Ponting, Tendulkar etc, don’t play shots like that. When they are on top of bowlers they go for the kill making big hundreds, double centuries.

He can carry on what he is doing and be a decent top class batsman, or he can really knuckle down and become a true great. The choice is his.