KP favours Ford

According to reports in Sunday Telegraph, the talk inside the England camp is of Kevin Pietersen favouring the appointment of his mentor Graham Ford. who he still calls up whenever he needs technical advice. Ford, now Kent coach, had earlier turned down India coach’s job

Meanwhile, another report in the same daily claimed Ashley Giles might step in as the stand-in coach in the West Indies. “Assuming that (Hugh) Morris cannot reconcile England’s captain and coach, the idea is gaining ground that Ashley Giles should take the team to the Caribbean as the temporary or emergency coach.

“An Ashes winner, England selector, a member of the last England team to win in the West Indies, and someone who has had a lengthy playing relationship with Pietersen, Giles has almost everything except the experience of coaching, limited as he has been to one season in charge of Warwickshire,” it said.