Former opener Geoffrey Boycott feels English cricket has become a laughing stock, thanks to the "appalling" way in which the ECB forced Kevin Pietersen to step down from captaincy."We are not the best cricket team but we are the best at making ourselves a laughing stock," a sarcastic Boycott wrote in his column for The Daily Telegraph."On Sunday Pietersen told his side of the story. He is quoted as saying that before he left India: 'The last words from Collier and Morris during the last Test match in India were for me to do a strategy plan as to how I wanted to take the English cricket team forward.' "They asked him. He did not give them the ultimatum. They requested a report. When they got the report they obviously didn't like what he said because he wanted a coach 'to be my ally who I trusted and was tactically aware. I didn't have that'," he added.The England Wales Cricket Board apparently took Pietersen's e-mail for a resignation but Boycott said ECB CEO David Collier and managing director Hugh Morris ended up making a mess of the situation in their efforts to get rid of the maverick skipper
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