MUMBAI: Former England captain Kevin Pietersen is mighty pleased with how India’s multiple investors and IPL team owners bought a stake in teams in a recently-conducted auction by the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for teams in ‘The Hundred’ in the UK recently.
Talking to reporters at an event, Pietersen said that it was obvious to anybody that it was India who was calling the shots in the game, and felt that the cash infusion would only be good for the English game.
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“At the end of the day, you are an absolute idiot if you don’t think that India runs the world of cricket and anyone arguing against that clearly is deluded. So, actually when you see what India is doing for global cricket, the amount of cash that's been injected into English cricket these last couple of weeks, it's amazing, brilliant for world and English cricket,” Pietersen said.
“I think it's amazing what's happening in English cricket because there's a lot of the counties in English cricket that are really struggling. And so now with this cash injection and the majority of it, (of course, is Indian-based, it's amazing. Look at what they've done in South Africa. I was just in South Africa last week calling the SA20. All of the stadiums are full. The ownership is all IPL teams. Everybody's happy. The quality of cricket is spectacular. So, I think it can only be positive,” the 44-year-old concluded.
