Key hits back at Pietersen and Shastri for England criticism

Rob Key denied that England failed to take Champions Trophy training seriously, as professionalism questioned.

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00:00A lot gets made of the way they go about things and the way they spend their time when they're

00:04not playing, which I have no issue with, really.

00:07One thing I will say, there was a story that came out from, I think, Ravi Shastri and Kevin

00:11Peterson that was just not true about the fact they'd only practised once.

00:15When I saw them in Pakistan, they practised hard.

00:18They got stuck in.

00:19It wasn't the fact that they weren't practising was why we didn't perform, but what I was

00:23pleased with, actually, we live in a world now where anyone can say anything and people

00:27run with it.

00:28I actually felt that after the Ravi Shastri, Kevin Peterson story, the English media turned

00:34around and said, no, actually, that's not true, and actually were able to sort of quell

00:38or quash something that wasn't right.