The dashing right-handed batsman has failed to score a century in any form of cricket for the last 18 months and was facing the axe for quite sometime now.
“Yup... Done for rest of summer!! Man of the World Cup T20 and dropped from the T20 side too. Its a f*** up!!,” Pietersen wrote on his twitter page in reponse to the queries of the rumours of him being dropped, according to the ‘Metro’ newspaper.
“However, The tweet was removed from his Twitter feed almost immediately - although it is not clear if it was originally sent in error or if he had a change of heart about announcing the news publicly,” the newspaper reported.
Published 31 August 2010, 15:37 IST