South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen has lashed out with a series of angry tweets at England's hierarchy, labelling his omission from the Three Lions' Ashes squad as 'ridiculous'.
England collapsed to 103 all out on the fourth afternoon falling to a 405-run loss with Australia levelling the series at 1-1 which brought sharp criticism from the UK media.
The London Telegraph even provided statistics to show the top three are now worse than Bangladesh's.
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Pietersen, 35, watched the opening two Ashes Tests from afar in Miami after playing in the Caribbean Premier League, but believes he should have been part of the squad competing against Australia.
"Deep in thought right now...ridiculous that I'm lying on a beach when I should be in UK prepping for the 3rd Test! So silly really! Sad!" he tweeted.
Deep in thought right now...ridiculous that I'm lying on a beach when I should be in UK prepping for the 3rd Test! So silly really! Sad! 👎🏻
Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) July 20, 2015
He then continued to describe the stalemate between himself and the England and Wales Cricket Board as "so, so, so, so silly"
The star was desperate to return to the England fold but, despite scoring an unbeaten 326 for Surrey in May, he was told by Andrew Strauss that there was no place for him in the England squad due to a "massive trust issue".
Despite Pietersen scoring 8181 runs in his Test career, the fifth highest in England's history, the door to international cricket was closed to him after he was dumped in the wake of England's embarrassing 2013-14 Ashes whitewash in Australia.
With question marks over the form of top-order batsmen Adam Lyth, Gary Ballance and Ian Bell England must regroup to face Australia in the third Ashes Test starting on Wednesday 29th July in Birmingham.
Australia need only draw the best-of-five series to retain the Ashes.
