England cricket team coach Peter Moores has revealed that sacked batsman Kevin Pietersen is not on the radar for a recall to the national side, as the Test squad prepared to fly out to the West Indies on Thursday.
Incoming England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairperson Colin Graves had suggested that Pietersen might yet be able to resurrect his England career, having been dumped from the national set-up a year ago.
The South Africa-born batsman agreed a return to county club Surrey last week in a bid to enhance his chances of a recall, but Moores claimed that his entire focus is on the three-Test series in the Caribbean, Sport24 reported.
Moores said that for him, Pietersen is not on this trip, so he doesn't need to focus on the batsman at all. He added that his focus is to support captain Alastair Cook as he always would and the 16 players on the West Indies tour.
The coach said that at the end of the 2014 summer they had gone through a tough summer, and started to play the sort of attacking cricket people like, and they like, adding that that's their focus at the moment.
Moores insisted that from his point of view, Pietersen isn't on the radar, so he added that the sacked batsman cannot be in his or Cook's focus at all.
Moores also expressed frustration that speculation about Pietersen was overshadowing the fact that players such as Yorkshire batsman Adam Lyth were in line to make their Test debuts.
