Kevin Pietersen Moves to Include

And in the process we are understanding the way the man thinks. We are forming an idea of how he beholds the game and the direction of England cricket's future.

Owais is going to bat at number three for the simple fact that I think he was wasted at number seven

No mincing of words in that, and he cares to explain why -

He's a high-scoring, quick-scoring cricket player who plays cricket shots to get boundaries.

Obviously, Shah the Cricket Player, is more valuable to KP than the whispers around that man. It's all an issue of proper priorities and what is good for England cricket.

Then he goes on to elucidate his policies to the listening world -

I want to give the guys a good run at it and concentrate on a specific role so when something happens and you need to change, at least I've identified the roles the players need to play and they can just slot in and slot out.

It's not a case of doing one thing on one day and another thing on another day.

Now all this sounds almost just right to me, as it must to many sensible England ears. One hopes that talk is matched, or allowed to match, with actions.

All this would sound just right to me instead of almost, if he set aside the nonsense we have heard the England establishment and team members spout out on the forthcoming tour to India, and asked his men to set aside their personal lives from their profession. Maybe he, this man from the South African veldts, can revive the expeditionary spirit once associated with a man from England.

UPDATE 20th Aug 2008

I have noticed these kind of posts on better blogs than mine, which discuss Google search results leading up to their blog. I always wondered how they knew...

Since then, I have discovered a new tool (new to a relative compu illiterate like me) available on the web which allows me to know the same, and would you believe it, one of the searches that comes up often from England (Google.co.uk) is this - Owais Shah Muslim?

Now how should it matter to Englishmen (or Englishkids...we can't say how old the Googlers are) if he is a Muslim as long as he is English and playing good cricket? But the enquiries go on...

Curiously, TCWJ happens to be the third on the search results and I have traced the reason back to Mikesiva's article ( a bigtime Owais Shah big-upper) who painstakingly took time to explain some of the conceptions associated with Owais Shah in that wonderful article of his.

In fact, my irritation triggered of by the combination of this revealing search and the news of yet another political pull-out promoting the politicization of sport on a regular basis (and they blame others for it of course, loudly and naturally), this time from CT, by the combination of unaccountables who can do what they want and are never held culpable or punishable, poured out in torrents over at Homer's tongue-in-cheek article Just Scrap it!, where I suspect, Homer's own frustration at it all is barely hidden but eminently missed by a wide margin.

The enquiries go on...keying in typecast words anonymously into search engines which cannot hide what prompts the search, just like the convoluted lingo cushioning these repeatedly brazen pullouts cannot hide what actually prompts them.