Tim Bresnan insists he had no part of @KPGenius parody account
Thursday 9 October 2014 11:27, UK
Tim Bresnan has denied having any part in posting Twitter messages to the parody account that upset Kevin Pietersen.
Yorkshire all-rounder Bresnan's name was mentioned in association to the @KPGenius account as the fall-out continued into Pietersen's controversial autobiography.
Former Test captain Alec Stewart said on Wednesday that Bresnan was one of the England players who had access to the account along with Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad, whose friend Richard Bailey ran it.
The feed lampooned Pietersen's personality and was eventually closed down, but it was brought up as part of the former England captain's book - which went on sale on Thursday morning - with Pietersen admitting he had been upset at what had been written.
Bresnan is the first to react to Stewart's insistence that he told then England and Wales Cricket Board managing director Hugh Morris that Bailey himself informed him of the direct involvement of Pietersen's team-mates.
But Bresnan took to Twitter on Thursday to say: "Disappointed to be implicated in the #kpgenius account.
"I 100% did NOT have any password. And wasn't involved In any posting."
Swann denied any involvement too earlier this week, and Broad did so in an ECB statement in August 2012.
Bailey has also denied any players were involved in running the account and said he told Stewart players might have known it was him behind it.