article_snippet.sent: Graves has forged an excellent reputation in English cricket as chairman of Yorkshire for the way chairman of Yorkshire bankrolled and transformed the club, but chairman of Yorkshire initial forays into the international game have been little short of an embarrassment.
article_snippet.sent: Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has become the loose cannon of English cricket — and Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has yet to take up office.
article_snippet.sent: So when Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves said that Pietersen — exiled for valid reasons after the last Ashes debacle before producing a nasty autobiography that only supported ECB's decision — had to be playing county cricket to earn an England recall, county cricket was put down to Yorkshire straight-talking.
article_snippet.sent: Yet subsequently, most importantly in a phone conversation with Pietersen, Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has done little to play down the 34-year-old's chances
article_snippet.sent: If Graves, who has apparently assured senior figures that ECB chairman does not want Pietersen back, really had no intention of encouraging the maverick, then ECB chairman has made a right old mess of the maverick.
article_snippet.sent: And if Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves disagreed with the original decision to axe Pietersen, then Pietersen had a duty as deputy chairman of the ECB to say so then, not wait until Pietersen had taken over from Giles Clarke.
article_snippet.sent: Since Pietersen Pietersen outburst, Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has said that there will be an inquiry if England do not beat a 'mediocre' West Indies in the upcoming three-Test series.
article_snippet.sent: Then Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves came out with the ridiculous notion of reducing Test matches to four days.
highlights_snippet.sent: Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has handled the potential return of Kevin Pietersen very poorly .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Incoming ECB chairman Colin Graveshas pitched several outlandish ideas about reducing Test matches to four days .
  