Pietersen was the original Bazball – and his return may be just what England need | Barney Ronay

While there’s a statistically significant chance it will all go south, KP’s mentorship could be a throwback to better days At the end of his time as consultant to the England cricket setup Gilbert Enoka praised Brendon McCullum’s incredible work in healing the culture of his team.

Enoka is best known as the architect of the no-dickheads policy in sport.

This is basically Doctor Dickhead.

Dickheads? He’s not having them.

“There wasn’t one dickhead in there,” Enoka announced, proudly.

And history has shown this to be correct.

All the evidence suggests the numerical value of dickheads in the England cricket team was something other than one.

And yes, zero is not one.

Fair point.

But so are all the other numbers, the ones that go up the other way into plurals, multiples, an infinity of dickheads.

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