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English Cricket Board managing director Paul Downton says the national side are moving on without Kevin Pietersen, who he describes as the most disengaged player he has ever seen

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SOUNDBITE (English): Paul Downton, English Cricket Board managing director (on the decision to remove Kevin Pietersen from the team):

"Just go back to Australia and watch what happened. I watched quite a lot of cricket actually and what you saw was a senior player who'd become disconnected from the team. I watched every ball of that Sydney test match and I've never seen anybody so disengaged from what was going on. What you need from a senior player is backing, support and everybody working together. We just got to the stage where that was no longer the case."

"The sooner we understand that Kevin's had his time the better. We are moving on without Kevin. We sat down, we talked through it over a number of hours, Kevin and I and his advisors. He was the one in the end that wanted to terminate his contract and we came to an agreement to do that. He is free to go and play wherever he wants around the world, but the sooner we can focus on young players coming through, what the England team can do, the more everybody will enjoy it."