Axing Kevin Pietersen was a brave call to make: Alastair Cook
Captain hints that 'truth will emerge soon' on board's reasons for dumping England's leading scorer after Ashes whitewash in Australia
England captain Alastair Cook has given his backing for the "brave call" to end the international career of Kevin Pietersen.
Despite being England's leading run scorer across all formats, South Africa-born batsman Pietersen was axed by the England and Wales Cricket Board in February following the team's 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia.
But exactly why he was sent into seemingly permanent international exile remains a mystery, with ECB statements citing a need for team "rebuilding" and "trust" raising more questions than answers.
Test and one-day skipper Cook, to his evident discomfort, was unable to shed any more light when speaking publicly for the first time about Pietersen's axing during Essex's media day on Tuesday.
But left-handed opener Cook was in no doubt the correct decision had been taken even though in 2010 World Twenty20 winner Pietersen's absence - and that of Cook, who does not play in the format - the side bowed out of this year's edition with an embarrassing dead-rubber defeat by the non-test Netherlands in Bangladesh on Monday.
