{"id":13497,"date":"2012-08-15T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/wrapup-2-cricket-englands-strauss-surprised-by-pietersen-row\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:43:06","slug":"wrapup-2-cricket-englands-strauss-surprised-by-pietersen-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-2-cricket-englands-strauss-surprised-by-pietersen-row\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 2-Cricket-England&#8217;s Strauss surprised by Pietersen row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* England captain taken aback by Pietersen fall out<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Batsman has apologised, says Surrey&#8217;s Stewart<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa&#8217;s Kallis says he will be missed<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Strauss, Stewart quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Matt Barker<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; England captain Andrew Strauss<br \/>\nsaid Kevin Pietersen&#8217;s falling out with the ECB was a surprise<br \/>\nafter the batsman was dropped for sending South Africa players<br \/>\ntext messages allegedly criticising his team mates and staff.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always got on with Kevin,&#8221; Strauss told Sky Sports<br \/>\nafter Pietersen was excluded from the squad for the third and<br \/>\nfinal test against the Proteas starting at Lord&#8217;s on Thursday.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve tried to be honest with him; he&#8217;s been honest with me.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why this has all been a bit of a surprise to me.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the discontent that Kevin had with the (England and<br \/>\nWales Cricket) Board over his contract situation was one that<br \/>\nthe players didn&#8217;t get involved in &#8211; and I didn&#8217;t really get<br \/>\ninvolved in, if I&#8217;m honest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But over the last week I have had to get involved, because<br \/>\nthere have been issues a little bit more central to his<br \/>\nrelationship with the other players and our ability to perform<br \/>\nout in the middle.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* England captain taken aback by Pietersen fall out * Batsman has apologised, says Surrey&#8217;s Stewart * South Africa&#8217;s Kallis says he will be missed (Adds Strauss, Stewart quotes) By Matt Barker LONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; England captain Andrew Strauss said Kevin Pietersen&#8217;s falling out with the ECB was a surprise after the batsman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}