Stuart Broad says the
England team pride themselves 'on being an honest changing room'.
Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
Kevin Pietersen has arrived in London for several meetings with England players and officials. The batsman's initial flight from Johannesburg to London on Sunday was cancelled and
he will now be in England for only 48 hours. He then flies back to
South Africa to continue playing for the Delhi Daredevils in the Champions League Twenty20.
Stuart Broad, however, is optimistic that the meeting between Pietersen and his England team-mates will bring an end to the saga which has dogged the side recently.
Pietersen was dropped for the final Test against South Africa at Lord's in August and overlooked for the World Twenty20 following allegations he sent messages to Proteas players criticising the then England captain Andrew Strauss.
After a stand-off period, the 32-year-old apologised for sending the messages and signed a new England and Wales Cricket Board central contract after agreeing to enter a "re-integration" process with the team.
Pietersen will shortly meet up with his England team-mates and the coach, Andy Flower, as they bid to rebuild bridges, and Broad is hopeful there will be a positive outcome to those talks. "It's in the management's hands," he told BBC Breakfast. "Of course [we'd welcome him back]. We've had some amazing success with KP as a team.
"I've been in the side six years, we've won two Ashes series and a Twenty20 World Cup, and we know that KP is a really dangerous player for us. There's not a better man in charge than Andy Flower to put the situation right and there's a lot of trust in him at the moment.
"Whether it's for [the tour of] India or New Zealand, the team will welcome him back. We pride ourselves on being an honest changing room and the only way to move forward is to talk about things.
"There will be a meeting with some of the hierarchy and we just need to lay some things out. I think that will be a really good meeting with most of the England players, and hopefully we can move forward and draw a line under the whole experience."
Stuart Broad, however, is optimistic that the meeting between Pietersen and his England team-mates will bring an end to the saga which has dogged the side recently.
Pietersen was dropped for the final Test against South Africa at Lord's in August and overlooked for the World Twenty20 following allegations he sent messages to Proteas players criticising the then England captain Andrew Strauss.
After a stand-off period, the 32-year-old apologised for sending the messages and signed a new England and Wales Cricket Board central contract after agreeing to enter a "re-integration" process with the team.
Pietersen will shortly meet up with his England team-mates and the coach, Andy Flower, as they bid to rebuild bridges, and Broad is hopeful there will be a positive outcome to those talks. "It's in the management's hands," he told BBC Breakfast. "Of course [we'd welcome him back]. We've had some amazing success with KP as a team.
"I've been in the side six years, we've won two Ashes series and a Twenty20 World Cup, and we know that KP is a really dangerous player for us. There's not a better man in charge than Andy Flower to put the situation right and there's a lot of trust in him at the moment.
"Whether it's for [the tour of] India or New Zealand, the team will welcome him back. We pride ourselves on being an honest changing room and the only way to move forward is to talk about things.
"There will be a meeting with some of the hierarchy and we just need to lay some things out. I think that will be a really good meeting with most of the England players, and hopefully we can move forward and draw a line under the whole experience."
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