England v Sri Lanka one day series

I'm afraid we will, borderman, because you cling to this idea that anyone with power in the game - not you or me or the thousand or so old enthusiasts gossiping on the internet, but the real power-brokers, the ECB insiders, the county chairmen, the marketing players for the sponsors - give a tuppeny about Pietersen and his balls-aching, or whether Eoin Morgan likes him or not.

The game has moved on. Downton did the job he was hired to do: get rid of the toxin that was infecting the brand and marginalise it, whatever the consequences. Result is that Pietersen is outside the tent and can drench it as much as he wants, and if the idlers want to come and gawp at him with his mighty sword of justice in his hand, well so be it.

The next task is to recreate an enduring brand image. No doubt the charming, doe-eyed Diana lookalike with his farm and his lack of threatening personal opinions, or any other sign of intelligence, looked as if he would be an ideal representative back in February but unfortunately real life has intervened. Technical faults that seemed to have been ironed out have re-emerged and he appears powerless to resolve them, or lacking the determination to confront them; his tactical skills have not improved, or to put it another way, his always embarrassing lack of understanding of match-management can no longer be hidden; even in a format where Cook was not expected to be particularly successful his howlers as captain and player have proved too much, leaving his managers without the ability to endorse him with any credibility. This is not what Downton needs, or EnglandCricket (TM applied for) will tolerate, ergo Cook must go.

And if he goes, then he will not come back. That wonderful career trajectory that made the brand look so promising a while ago - the youngest to reach a series of plateaux, the promise of record-breaking achievements - will not be reengineered to operate at a slower angle of ascent. Can you really see Cook returned to the ranks as a Test match batsman, and then failing to hit 50 in his first 5 or 6 innings and still being persevered with? Clearly not, and neither can I see Cook being axed from the World Cup, with no guarantees about his future in other formats, settling down to a long period in the nets with the kind of expert guidance and technical as well as moral support that he needs, not least because Moores and all the others he should be able to depend upon will all be swanning around in Australia and then getting ready for West Indies.

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The likelihood is that most of Pietersen and Morgan's followers are bots, endlessly selling and recyling information to each
other about the worthless rubbish that their owners endorse in a kind of frenetic masturbatory cycle.

While I accept bots can play a role in superficially enlarging a Twitter follower account eg. There is someone in the US
who charges $200 for 10,000 bots (new followers), it is highly unlikely either Morgan or KP have the need to do this.
Neither spend time selling products via their Twitter, except Pietersen when occasionally promoting one of his businesses,
which is very refreshing. Pietersen is primarily cricket/social life based and Morgan current affairs/sports based.

The Twitter accounts which I object to and find tedious are those who solely use it to sell dull and superficial products. 

www.fastcodesign.com/3031675/infographic-of-the-day/what-buying-twitter-bots-will-do-for-your-following