Sleeper agent in England wakes up
Captain Chaos, aka Kevin Pietersen, is the lynchpin in a fiendish plan to wreak havoc prior to the Ashes, writes Alex Parker in the Times in South Africa.
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Captain Chaos, aka Kevin Pietersen, is the lynchpin in a fiendish plan to wreak havoc prior to the Ashes, writes Alex Parker in the Times in South Africa.
Operating out of a secret bunker beneath the Wanderers, Pietersen’s Cricket South Africa handlers watched as their diabolical intrigue unfolded just as they had planned. To start with, the “bats like Geoffrey Boycott’s mum” pills were proving devastatingly effective against Michael Vaughan.
He was eventually dropped, and sure enough, the fools at the ECB selected Pietersen as England captain. In a move of sheer genius, CSA sent Pietersen’s orders in a code known as “Afrikaans”. Then, just as an Ashes year was under way and England were off to tour the West Indies, Pietersen, just like Sir Bartle Frere had done to the Zulus in 1878, offered the ECB an impossible ultimatum: “It’s the coach or me.”
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo