Mind your back: James Taylor criticises Kevin Pietersen over his behaviour whilst playing for England

Former England batsman James Taylor has said that teammate Kevin Pietersen acted like a “t***’ after the pair bumped into each other at a net session before a Test against Sri Lanka in 2011.

Taylor had not been picked to play in the match but was called up to have a net so that the coaches could assess his technique.

“I had a session with Graham Gooch and KP was having a net at the same time,” Taylor recalls in his autobiography, Cut Short, serialised in The Daily Telegraph.



“Hi KP,” I said, “how are you doing?”

“What are you doing here?” he replied.

‘Nothing else, just that.’

“I’m just here having a net with Goochy.”

‘He didn’t say anything else and walked off. The