I've really enjoyed watching the Big Bash cricket highlights from Australia over the past couple of weeks.

And it’s been particularly enjoyable listening to the players being interviewed while matches have been taking place.

I am sure it’s something we will see much more of in this country during the coming summer and, in the last few days, it threw up some really interesting stuff from Kevin Pietersen in the commentary box.

Suddenly KP is available for England again and saying that the new skipper, Eoin Morgan, wants him in the team.

My personal view is that I wouldn’t have him anywhere near the team.

No doubt he is still one of the most talented batsmen in the world, but he is a divisive character who is only interested in Kevin Pietersen and nobody else.

It reminds me of the arguments many years ago about Geoff Boycott. He was, without doubt, the best batsman, but he played for Geoff Boycott and nobody else.

Whether the run rate needed quickening or whatever, that meant nothing to Boycott.

Pietersen isn’t the same type of batsman at all, but certainly everything he does is about himself and, in team sport, you can’t really do with players like that around the dressing room.

It’s not so much about the matches, it’s all the team meetings, travelling and the rest and if you are not comfortable with your teammates’ company then there is going to be a big problem.

The most telling line this week was when Pietersen, in the commentary box, started talking to Andrew Flintoff when he was batting for Brisbane Heat.

Flintoff didn’t realise who it was at first and then said: “Oh no is that Kevin - I don’t like talking to you when I’m not batting never mind when I’m in the middle!”

That might have been tongue in cheek, but it pretty much says it all really.

I have to say I am looking forward to the tri-series matches which got under way overnight with England’s one-day side playing Australia and, obviously, the 50-over World Cup next month.

I think India at 2/1 are a big, big price to win the tri-series, with Australia at 5/6 and England 4/1.

India are brilliant at the one-day game because they bring their A game and, of course, they are the defending World Cup champions.

The £27,500 Grade Two Sky Bet Supreme Trial Novices’ Hurdle takes place at Haydock Park on Saturday.

Haydock Park Racecourse

The two-mile contest is the third of six races in a “Road to Cheltenham” series backed by us at Skybet, culminating with the Grade One Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday, March 10.

Conditions at Haydock Park are currently heavy and, with further rain forecast, are likely to remain testing.

One horse sure to be suited by these conditions is Got The Nac (Oliver Sherwood), who opened his account over hurdles when making all the running over two miles on heavy ground at Lingfield Park on December 21. The six-year-old is a 7/1 chance with Skybet.

Jointly-heading the market at 11/4 with us are Aso (Venetia Williams) and Kiama Bay (Jim Best).

Aso fought out the finish with Kingfisher Creek (Colin Tizzard, 10/1), in a Taunton novices’ hurdle on December 30, with the former coming out on top by half a length. Aso had Got The Nac, making his seasonal debut, back in fifth when a facile winner at Warwick on November 19.

Kiama Bay was 10 lengths clear when falling at the final obstacle in a Listed novices’ hurdle won by Thorpe (Lucinda Russell, 12/1) over the course and distance on November 21.

Kiama Bay has turned a corner since capturing a novices’ handicap hurdle at Newton Abbot in August. The nine-year-old was second at Plumpton in September but got back to winning ways with a length and three quarter victory over subsequent winner Minstrels Gallery at Fakenham on October 24.

John Ferguson has entered Zip Top and Qewy (5/1), who is yet to run over hurdles but won the Listed Heritage Stakes at Leopardstown in April when trained in Ireland by John Oxx.

Dan Skelton has put in Rock Of Leon (9/1), who made a winning start over hurdles at Fontwell on December 26.

The contenders are completed by French import Classical Art (David Pipe, 20/1) and Georgieshore (Zoe Davison, 50/1).

The Skybet Supreme Trial has been a good guide to the Cheltenham Festival in recent years. Peddlers Cross (2010) went on to win the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle while Cinders And Ashes (2012) took the Skybet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.