England legend Geoffrey Boycott empathises with Kevin Pietersen's outburst against ECB

Legendary England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said that ousted batsman Kevin Pietersen is entitled to be miffed after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) cut short his Test career without proper explanation.

Like Pietersen, former England opener Boycott had also been dropped once for scoring too slowly after making a double century.

And with Pietersen reduced to settling scores in his explosive autobiography, Boycott blames the current scenario on the ECB's failure to present a coherent case for tearing up the batsman's contract eight months ago, The Mirror reported.

Boycott said that he would be miffed if his career had been finished for no reasons given, adding that it is actually a pretty big thing when one has got a very talented player, and then a country says that they want to move on without him.

Despite Pietersen's outburst in his book, where he claims a bullying culture took root under former coach Andy Flower's regime, the silence from ECB has been deafening.

Boycott blames the vacuum on the confidentiality clause ECB agreed with Pietersen after the sacking. He said that in a free, democratic society, both sides should have spoken out at the time, and added that it was far too big an issue to just wait for a moratorium until October 1.