Pietersen?s employers deemed that the batsman?s remarks were ?prejudicial to the interests of the ECB? and he has been fined about ?3,000, which will go to an ECB-supported charity. Pietersen was punished after a hearing in Nottingham organised by coach Andy Flower and Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket.
Although Pietersen is thought to consider the punishment somewhat severe, Standard Sport understands the 31-year-old is ready to let the matter lie. He could contest the decision but sources close to Pietersen suggest that going through an appeals process would be an unnecessary distraction.
Knight said he was unworried by the remarks of Pietersen, who described his presence on the Sky team for home series as ?ridiculous?. But Sky is a major commercial partner of the ECB, with a new ?260million, four-year deal to broadcast England matches live signed this year.
Pietersen has come a cropper on Twitter before. He was fined in 2010 for an outburst, which he said was a mistake, when he was left out of the one-day series against Pakistan, and later that year he berated Adelaide ground staff during the Ashes for failing to protect net wickets from rain.
Despite the problems it has caused, there are no plans to ban England players from using Twitter. The feeling within the Professional Cricketers? Association is that most England players have mastered the social networking site and that to impose too stringent rules would be counter-productive.
PCA chief executive Angus Porter said: ?We believe the code of conduct with regard to social networking works well.?
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