When a team is not performing well, a few feuds are common in the dressing room. But things went out of control during the Ashes series of 2013/14. Losing the Ashes always brings about humiliation to both Australia and England, and a white-wash like 5-0 is the pinnacle of all humiliations. Things got heated in the English dressing room when they were handed a 5-0 thrashing by the Aussies, and Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior made the headlines.
England is currently playing a Test series against South Africa, and both Pietersen and Matt Prior are working as experts for TalkSPORT. On his relationship with Prior, Pietersen said “It was a sad time. I had been friends with Cheese. Now he was slowly losing any sense of himself as he turned up the volume and made himself the main man of the dressing room.”
Things in perfect balance in the rainbow nation
While that is something which is happening outside the 22 yards, things are in perfect equilibrium inside it. England was handed a heavy defeat in the first of four Tests, but the Three Lions made an impressive comeback. Currently, they are tackling the Proteas in the third Test at St. George’s Park in Elizabeth.