article_snippet.sent: the politics have Kevin Pietersen at centre stage as ever.
article_snippet.sent: Only the ECB’s hopeless media team could launch the domestic NatWest T20 Blast, which needs all the promotional hype it can muster to compete with the IPL and Big Bash, on the same day as an England Test match.
article_snippet.sent: And only the ECB, having brought in former Ashes hero Freddie Flintoff to drum up publicity for the launch, could then decide former Ashes hero Freddie Flintoff shouldn’t speak to national newspapers.
article_snippet.sent: ECB ECB having limited time with former Ashes hero Freddie Flintoff.
article_snippet.sent: former Ashes hero Freddie Flintoff (left) shares a joke with Warwickshire and England's Chris Woakes at the launch .
article_snippet.sent: There was a player for all 18 counties present at the T20 Blast launch on Thursday .