Ranking top 10 controversial coaches in cricket history

7. Peter Moores

Peter Moores, who had coached England twice unfortunately had wrangled himself in a controversial feud with the former skipper Kevin Pietersen back in 2008-09. Before the odious incident, Moores was named as England’s head coach right after the 2007 World Cup where England had reasonably performed. While his first year as a coach was a topsy turvy ride, the emergence of KP taking England’s reign in 2008-09 immediately brought in a disliking amongst the two.

While Pietersen as a skipper had to face a horrifying defeat in the tour of India where England did lose both the ODIs and the Test series, KP was unhappy with the way the training regimes and other strategies were formulated by the coach Moores. Pietersen in a public announcement also had revealed the dispute between the two along with asking ECB to think about Moores’s future role as a head coach. However, the omission of Michael Vaughan from the West Indies tour further erupted the feud between the two, as KP was in dire favour of Vaughan’s selection.

Eventually, while ECB’s investigation on the controversy did result in the sacking of Peter Moores, surprisingly even Pietersen also gave up his captaincy. However, after winning the home Ashes of 2009, KP claimed that without the removal of Moores, England wouldn’t have been able to beat Australia as the change apparently did bring a better working climate within the squad.