KP brands ECB as 'bunch of dinosaurs' who shot themselves in foot

Ousted England batsman Kevin Pietersen has mocked the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as dinosaurs in a television interview, making his former employers seem both rudderless and out of touch.

Pietersen, while speaking on The Clare Balding Show, said that he thinks there are times in ones life where one shoots himself in the foot and added that he does not think the ECB helped themselves, when he was asked to comment on the record leaked on Tuesday, which detailed his misdeeds on the Australian tour last winter that culminated in his sacking.

Pietersen said that it is embarrassing what happened, adding that it is not something he really wants to give much airtime to. He said that when one is dealing with dinosaurs that don't understand social media they are going to shoot themselves in the foot and they've done it, The Independent reported.

It was the latest minor victory for Pietersen in his battle with the ECB. At every turn this week, the man who was once the national team's most illustrious player has outflanked those who dispensed with him.

The ECB continues to decline to address Pietersen's accusations that the England dressing room was ruled by fear and bullying. He continues diligently to promote his book, which will at last be in the shops on Thursday.

One of Pietersen's purported misdeeds in the document which emanated from the ECB's lawyers, Onside Law, was that the batsman went out drinking with young members of the squad in Adelaide before the second Test last December.

Pietersen said that they went out, had a few drinks, adding that he was pictured on the front of a newspaper and in all the newspapers was Stuart Broad. So he said that where the young players scenario came in he does not have a clue, adding that he knows there were some players with them.

Pietersen further said that the embarrassing part of it was that the ECB put a press release out the next day, adding that the incident was on a Sunday night, and the Test match started on a Thursday.