Colin Graves, the approaching administrator of the England and Wales Cricket Board, was resolved on Friday that he "didn't make any guarantees" to Kevin Pietersen around a conceivable come back to Test cricket. Graves, whose residency as ECB director began Friday, discharged an announcement by means of the overseeing body's site in his first open reaction to shellfishes from Pietersen that he had gotten "inconceivably misleading" treatment. Andrew Strauss, the new ECB chief of cricket and Pietersen's successor as England commander, said Tuesday that a "huge trust issue" kept the South Africa-conceived batsman's arrival, despite the fact that Pietersen is England's record-breaking driving run-scorer over all organizations. That seemed to repudiate before remarks from Graves, that an arrival was conceivable if Pietersen, in universal outcast since the group's 5-0 Ashes whipping in Australia a year ago, sufficiently scored keeps running in region cricket. In any case, soon after Pietersen made an unbeaten triple century for Surrey against Leicestershire on Monday, Strauss instructed him to disregard playing for England against New Zealand and Australia this home season. That thus drove Pietersen to say he'd been "misdirected", with the 34-year-old going ahead to make an unbeaten 355 against Leicestershire. In any case, previous Yorkshire director Graves had an alternate tackle occasions, saying Friday: "In the previous couple of days my trustworthiness has been raised doubt about, something I can't acknowledge. "So it disheartens me that what was a private discussion with Kevin in March has been utilized to do simply that. "I didn't make any guarantees, There were no ensures that in the event that he decided to leave his IPL (Indian Premier League) contract, play area cricket and score runs he would be chosen for England - and I said he ought to settle on any choice on his future on that premise." However, Graves had all the earmarks of being shielding himself from a charge Pietersen had not made, as the batsman hadn't said he'd been "guaranteed" anything, but instead that in the event that he did satisfy certain conditions he would at any rate be considered for England determination. Graves was arranged to acknowledge there may have been a "misconception". "In those days, when we chatted on the telephone, Kevin inquired as to whether I thought his England profession had finished in the right way taking after the last Ashes arrangement in Australia," Graves wrote in his ECB blog. "I concurred that no one especially rose with much credit from the entire scene, especially given his accomplishments for England. "I can see something has been misjudged around the discussion and in the accompanying verbal confrontation - and maybe how that happened."
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