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Probably fair, beautiful to watch in his pomp, Gower and faced better bowlers. I'm done with this debate now, I'm making myself angry and for what? We could send an U-18's team out to the Windies and they'd probably win.

Undoubtedly with more application he could have been better but how good does that make him then? Look at his record, it bears scrutiny with all of his contemporaries and all outside the truly great English batsman. And by truly great I'm talking aside from Gooch a list of players all retired...

I'll like the ECB to get their mouth open to be honest, rather than try and convince us that Moeen Ali & Stephen Parry are going to sort it out. Both decent players no doubt but they must think we are bloody idiots.

An average of 47 is an average of 47, whatever way you cut it. His Test record is up there with the best this country has ever played. Bopara, Morgan, Root, Taylor dream of having the kind of career he's had. There's more than one way to skin a cat old bean and you can't have a team of Cooks the...

About your lame duck captain who was no longer good enough to play Test Match cricket. Pietersen handled it terribly but ultimately he was right, Strauss only played one more Test after the incident and he was beyond awful in that series. He's gone about things the wrong way but more often than...

Just realised that I owe Gooch a massive apology. 2nd best.

I am telling you, it is a cosy boys club. No one wants to rock the boat. Pietersen is the only one prepared to address failings, that's why he fell out with Moores and why he fell out with Flower. Read the first couple of paragraphs in that first article again, especially the stuff around his...

This is such an emotive area to get into. I'd be all for a reduction of the number of counties playing 4 day cricket. Would I be up for Sussex CCC ceasing to be? No way, not even for the good of English cricket.

Upset or no upset, the results weren't wildly different.

I'm harsh on Rankin, Borthwick, Ballance, Woakes & Kerrigan who haven't had enough of a chance yet (having said that none of them pulled up any trees...) and yes, you are right of them Ballance looks like he has what it takes but have a look at our new test caps since 2010 & it is utterly grim...

Johnathan Agnew makes the very on message point here http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/26041878 His argument, I think falls down on using Stokes as an example of up and coming talent. I'll be charitable to Joe Root and say that he is the only other one that has come in and looked decent...

I for one can't wait to read about this tour. It's clear to me that something rather serious has gone on, I'm sure they'll be some very differing points of view given time.

That's the same Alistair Cook who has been consistently outthought by Clarke over 10 Test Matches, who scored no runs of his own in either series. I'm pleased someone in the unit is asking questions about his capataincy, it needs saying.

Swann who has a serious shoulder problem, who averaged over 80 in the series against the Australians and who has a chequered disciplinary past of his own. Riiigght 6 years overdue? Are you absolutely crazy? He's been England's most consistent run scorer in that period. Yes Cook may well have...

The look on Steyn's face around 8:30 when he flicked one that was marginally short off his legs like a tracer bullet to the boundary is priceless.

I'm not sure this would be the worst news I've ever heard. Just a gut feel?

The point I'm making here is that Strauss at the time was a lame duck captain and though his behaviour was unprofessional, I don't think Pietersen was happy with that. Quite why he thought texting the Saffers was a good idea is beyond me but Strauss quit test cricket soon afterwards so must have...

The other side of the coin being I don't think I've seen such a thrilling innings by any Englishman ever than his 149 against South Africa in 2012. When he walked down the track and deposited Dale Steyn (the number 1 ranked bowler in the world at the time) straight back over his head for six was...

Across the 10 Ashes Tests he scored more runs at a better average than the other England batsman bar Ian Bell. He made a match winning 186 against India last winter and played one of the greatest knocks I've ever seen against SA at Headingly the previous summer against a bowling attack that made...

The highest international run scorer in the history of English cricket. You know what, that's English enough for me, regardless of where he was born.