Kevin Pietersen in dig at Andrew Strauss's "cheek" over IPL comments in book In his book, Strauss says Pietersen "crossed the line" when he sent the messages to the South Africa team. "He seemed to be at best destabilising and at worst undermining our carefully cultivated team environment," he writes. Pietersen has not responded to Strauss's comments but Morgan has been happy to attack the former captain tweeting two weeks ago. Oh the irony of Andrew Strauss now using secret conversations with @KP24 to sell his new book. What a shameless hypocrite. Pietersen rarely engages with the media apart from on Twitter or interviews with his former team-mate Darren Gough and will probably save his response to Strauss for a book post-retirement. Strauss calls for the game's administrators to organise a window for the IPL but stands by the England and Wales Cricket Board's policy of not letting it come before playing or preparing for Test cricket. "Going to India, surrounding yourself with the best players in the world and learning how to innovate and adapt in vastly different conditions must surely be of huge benefit to players (not to mention the obvious benefits to their bank accounts)," he writes in Driving Ambition. Unfortunately, the IPL teams are reluctant to select England players, knowing that they will not be available for the whole tournament. In addition the ECB is less-than-keen to see its best assets wandering off to a foreign domestic tournament when they should be getting invaluable rest. However, if England are serious about being a force in the international game, one thing the administrators have to look at is creating a window to allow our players to participate. The IPL is not going anywhere and we run the risk of slipping behind other teams in both ODI and Twenty20 cricket if our players don't participate.