Boycott Digs Into KP, Calls Him “Spoilt Child”

Sir Geoffrey Boycott does not have the habit of mincing words. And when he says something, it with a peculiarity uniquely his own. Here are some of his takes before and from the first Ashes Test at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
Boycott, who famously stated before the Ashes that the smartest thing Australia could do for the Ashes was recall Shane Warne. Warne was of course involved in that charity match at Lord’s in a Twenty20 match for the British Asia Cup played between the Middlesex Panthers and the Rajasthan Royals who eventually won the match. Later Warne moved on to poker and Boycott apparently to Kevin Pietersen.
Ahead of the second Test at Lord’s, Boycott lashed out at KP but also, indirectly took a sig at Australia’s off spinner, Nathan Hauritz. He even brought his famous mum, made famous by him, into the picture. Speaking of KP’s dismissal in the first innings when he played a horrendous shot to Hauritz, Boycott spoke of how KP had taken it too lightly to be dismissed by a bowler, who in Boytcott’s opinion, could not even bowl his (Geoffrey’s) mum out.
Boycott referred to the former England captain as a spoilt brat who needed to be tamed. But he also added that he doubted if there was a stern enough individual in the England dressing room. He felt that the England coach, Andy Flower, and England captain, Andrew Strauss, were softies and also added that Strauss was perhaps not entirely the man for the job because he could not grasp the finer aspects of the game and coordinate the bowling attack with Andrew Flintoff in the mix and could not mould the England batting team that was lost if put in a defensive scenario.