Does "told you so" have a statute of limitations? I mean, does it still count when the telling was told over four years ago?
With his dominant bottom hand, Kevin Pietersen has a hole in his technique you could drive a truck through. Shane Warne doesn't need a hole that big. His ball that bowled Pietersen last night was good enough to beat the big Yarpie, but a better batsman would not have fallen over himself to plonk it through the leg side.
You've only got to recall - very fondly - Pietersen's dismissal in the second innings in Adelaide, bowled falling over a Warne ball via a botched cross between a sweep and a drive, to spot that KP has a problem with across-the-linedness:
Michael Vaughan: technique trouble making Kevin Pietersen an ordinary mortal
When he first came into the side, we were all asking, "How do you get this bloke out?" Now he knows that people are talking about him, and they have a game plan. As soon as he comes in, the opposition put in a straight midwicket, a straight mid-on, and started bowling full and straight – with the occasional bouncer. And then they bring on the left-arm spinner, because he has had trouble with everyone from Paul Harris to Daniel Vettori, from Yuvraj Singh to Sulieman Benn.
KP has oodles of talent; if he gets his game in order he will be a handful. Here's hoping, by the time next summer rolls around, that he hasn't got his game in order.
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