There is one shock admission of regret over sending the messages about Strauss but he claims it was because he was ‘broken' by a parody Twitter account mocking him.
He says his mistake was not disagreeing with the South Africans calling Strauss a ‘doos', which, loosely translated, is the word Strauss called Pietersen when he was commenting for Sky this summer and thought he was off-air.
‘A doos is just an idiot and I regret being involved in conversations like that,' Pietersen says. ‘But mentally I was totally broken. I was crying in a room with Andy Flower during that Test (against South Africa at Headingley) saying, “How the hell has it come to this?”
‘Why? Because I was told by a senior player that the Twitter account was being run from inside the dressing room. I was completely broken, absolutely finished, mentally shot. Yes of course I regret getting Straussy involved and I went to his house to apologise. I apologised to his wife, too.'
