Quintin Jardine's blog

The ECB’s off its collective head. KP’s banned for being mouthy, then his team-mates are allowed to gang up on him in the media, thus proving his claim that he was being isolated in the dressing room. Unfair, stupid and blinkered. Sure it’s a team game but it’s about money too. How many people would pay to watch Strauss, or Swann, or Broad as opposed to the likes  of Pietersen or Botham, another ‘rebel’? Maybe half, on one of those guys’ good days. This time next week they’ll have been humped by the Springboks and wondering, ‘How did that  happen?’ Message; going out of your way to alienate your best player is a good way to begin.