Pietersen lost England's trust - Strauss

"Without trust, the team environment is stillborn," he wrote in British newspaper the Sunday Times.

"It is for this reason that Kevin Pietersen's international career had to be brought to an end.

"The media have been searching for a 'smoking gun'. Everyone is looking for disciplinary problems, bust-ups and character clashes, but they are looking for the wrong thing.

"The smoking gun is the total absence of trust."

Strauss identified Pietersen's dismissal as England captain five years ago as the beginning of the breakdown.

Strauss would know first hand what was going down in the dressing room behind the scenes with KP all this time .....

What I find strange is the people who were against KP since he came on the scene, for switching allegiance, his personality etc, ..... are now all for him in hindsight  ...  :

Caly,


I think it is because the public at large feel he has been treated unfairly.

there are issues with kp that only his team mates know about