Alastair Cook has managed to hold on to England captaincy solely because of “politics”, said maverick batsman Kevin Pietersen and insisted the disaster the skipper was enduring in the series against India was something he would not wish even for his worst enemy.
“At the moment only politics are keeping Cook in the job because the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) backed him so much that it would be yet another PR disaster if it sacked him now,” Pietersen wrote in The Daily Telegraph . “But the ECB needs his runs back more than anything else. So a big decision has to be made. Forget the bad headlines for once,” he said.
“Alastair Cook is enduring an experience I would not wish on my worst enemy. He will not be able to sleep at night and when he eventually drifts off and wakes up in the morning the last and first things going through his mind will be worries over his career and his job,” said Pietersen.
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“But he should do what is right for England and resign the captaincy. He has shown he does not have the tactical brain to lead the side,” he added.