June 28 (Reuters) - Sacked batsman Kevin Pietersen has put the blow-torch on Alastair Cook's England, saying the team's series defeat to Sri Lanka showed senior players were still shell-shocked from the 5-0 Ashes whitewash.
Pietersen also heaped additional pressure on out-of-form skipper Cook, claiming his lack of runs was playing on his mind and making him appear a "rabbit in the headlights".
"England were in winning positions in both matches but blew it, and I believe that is a symptom of the senior players being very unsettled," Pietersen, controversially dumped from the team in the wake of the Ashes debacle, wrote in his column in British newspaper, the Telegraph.
"You can only kid the public for so long," he said.
"If you tell them this is a brave new dawn, that the team will play an aggressive brand of cricket and try to be positive, but then play the same old negative stuff, the supporters will soon turn away from the team in droves."
"I saw in Cook at Headingley the same look (former captain) Andrew Strauss had when he played his last test at Lord's," he said.
"He was a rabbit in the headlights. It was a shame to see Cooky looking that way."
let him fail. if he is worthy he will work his way out, if he is not hewill continue to sink and be forced to give it up soon. skunt cud be out of cricket by the time he is 31. :-[
now wud that not be sweet. Kevin wud be catatonic in laffter. if jocularity cud kill it wud be Kevin in that event
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