Winning regardless

How sad, how bereft we are of the sense of "doing the right thing" irrespective of whether we gain an advantage or not.

Kevin Pietersen has a history of being a difficult personality, very self centred, quite ruthless, not the team player you might want on your team.
Andrew Strauss knew well enough what a difficult man he had on his team and eventually, after the disparaging emails sent by Pietersen to his former countrymen the South African team, about Strauss and his captaincy. Strauss called it a day.



Strauss seemed a good man, a fine person and a very good captain. He is a loss, not only as a man to lead England but as a man who we and our kids could look up to as a roll model. 
Remember our continuing call for "roll models" to step forward and lead our youngsters away from the second grade celebrities that punctuate our TV screens.

I have just watched Pietersen, read  an apology for the unhappiness he caused and reiterate, that he had not passed any tactical information to the South Africans. His whole demeanour was not one of contrition, he seemed to be simply going through the paces.  Ok it was not tactical information but it was about his captain and as such it was an unforgivable breach of trust.

My reason for writing is the opinion amongst cricket writers and commentators that we should welcome back Pietersen as soon as possible since we need his batting skills to bolster the team.
It seems to me that we value "winning" above the corruptive influence he has brought to the world of English cricket and worse, we have forgotten or choose to ignore the damage to Strauss.   
Do we have no ethical values no moral compass to guide us, other than the questionable ability of winning regardless !!!
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