Tim Bresnan has denied having any involvement in the controversial @KPgenius Twitter account after Kevin Pietersen's autobiography claimed his former England team-mates were behind it.
In his book, Pietersen revealed the extent to which the account had angered and upset him, and claimed that the account's author had told the former England wicketkeeper Alec Stewart that 'some of the guys in the dressing room are tweeting from it'.
Stewart later confirmed that he had been told that Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann all had access to the account - part of what Pietersen described as the 'bullying' culture inside the England dressing room.
However, those claims have been denied by the owner of the account, Richard Bailey, who told the Guardian he ran the account alone with no input from the dressing room. Swann also issued a denial, while Bresnan tweeted: 'Disappointed to be implicated in the #kpgenius account. I 100% did NOT have any password. And wasn't involved in any posting.'
Disappointed to be implicated in the #kpgenius account. I 100% did NOT have any password. And wasn't involved In any posting.
- Tim Bresnan (@timbresnan) October 9, 2014
Geoffrey Boycott, meanwhile, has defended Pietersen's right to be upset by the way his England career was cut short without proper explanation.
The former England opener traced Pietersen and England's problems back to the re-positioning of management power in early 2009 - a 'recipe for disaster' which came to fruition.
Pietersen discovered he could not work with Peter Moores, but that crisis concluded with both the captain and then the coach relieved of those roles and Andy Flower put in charge instead. Flower had been Moores' assistant, and Pietersen had already made it clear he had little regard for the man-management methods of either.
By Pietersen's admission, it was the source of many of his difficulties as he had to work for a new coach while fitting back into the ranks under Andrew Strauss' captaincy, and, in his own words, Flower subsequently had a 'vendetta' against him.
Boycott told Cricinfo: 'I'd be miffed if my career had been finished for no reasons given.
'It's actually a pretty big thing when you've got a very talented player ... and a country says, 'Fine, we want to move on without you'. I think [both parties] have a duty to the public to say what their reasons are.'
A document has leaked into the public domain, containing what appears to be an ECB log of Pietersen's alleged misdemeanours during the 2013/14 Ashes. There has been no official reaction, though, from the governing body to the publication of Pietersen's autobiography.
Boycott is particularly frustrated by the vacuum of information which persisted through a difficult summer for England, after Pietersen and his former employers agreed a near eight-month confidentiality clause.
'In a free democratic society, which we live in, people are entitled to [hear] their views - both sides. So he's entitled to his, but also the ECB should have spoken out at the time.
'I think both of them should have spoken out at the time. It was too big an issue to just wait for a moratorium for October 1 - far too big an issue.'
As for the ill-fitting working relationship between Pietersen and Flower, Boycott added: 'You have two people who resent the situation, both in prime positions - one the best batsman and the other the coach in charge. That's a recipe for disaster, isn't it?
'I'm not surprised it spilled over, and eventually he's having his say, because I feel there was so much ill-feeling from that moment Kevin was sacked as captain and Flower was promoted from assistant coach to the coach.'
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