Team was on my side says KP

Kevin Pietersen  said "My relationship with Freddie was great and towards the end I sat down with him and I said ‘Mate, this is what is going on’. We had a good chat and Freddie’s parting words were, ‘You cannot leave as England captain’,".

"I confided in them and in another two senior England players (Andrew Strauss and Paul Collingwood). And they all 100 per cent, I promise you categorically said to me: ‘Do not leave, Please, as England captain.’ "That’s not to say they wanted Peter Moores sacked. All I can say is that I know who I have spoken to and I won’t lie. What I have told you now is true. I have not let anything out to the media and I won’t lie about stuff. This is the God’s honest truth," he said.

"I had a long chat with Harmy about what we were going to do going forward and how he would be seen as the best bowler in the world come the end of the Ashes. ‘That is your goal,’ I told him, ‘because I think you are a superstar’," he said.

"And then we were talking about other stuff and he said to me: ‘Mate, I love you to bits and the last thing I want you to do is quit as captain’," he added.