‘I’ve had to work hard on my brilliance. It takes effort to get this obnoxious…’I appreciate my family and I appreciate cricket. In that order. So let me set this on the record straight away. When those total cu – I mean those really thoughtful and intelligent cricket strategists,Straussy and Cooky, two of the best guys you could ever hope to meet – dropped me from the international squad, and I was satisfied to acquire it on the chin. Despite what people say,KP is not a cricketer with a big ego. There’s nothing I like more than just sitting at home with Jess, staring at myself in the mirror. Nor was I in any way disappointed when England surprised everyone by winning the Ashes and even Piers Morgan and Tom Holland stopped their incessant tweets demanding my recall. Because KP always has been and always will be a team player.
In cricket, and as in life,we all hold to move on and I assume it’s time to let bygones be bygones. When I wrote my autobiography two years ago, I didn’t anticipate that slagging off every England cricketer I had ever played with might set a few peoples backs up. What I said was always intended as constructive criticism – a chance to use my genius to improve English cricket for decades to approach – rather than to settle some aged scores with a bunch of losers. But I see now that some people might not hold been ready for that approach, and so I want to set the record straight now. If I did call some of you depressing shits depressing shits,I didn’t mean it. And please, please don’t forget me. My phone hasn’t rung for days.
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Source: theguardian.com