Kevin Pietersen had threatened to quit as England captain during the tour of India but was persuaded not to by ECB officials, the board's vice-chairman Dennis Amiss has said on BBC 5Live.
Pietersen offered to resign after the second Test in Mohali, which was drawn, but was told to take some time off and think about it on holiday. "He mentioned resigning from the captaincy in our discussions with him but we wanted him to go away and think about it while he was in South Africa," Amiss said. "We said, 'Go away and think about it and we will resolve the situation as quickly as we can'."
ECB officials with the team in India - chairman Giles Clarke, chief executive David Collier, managing director of England cricket Hugh Morris, and Amiss - held five meetings with Pietersen and asked him to outline his plan for England for the coming year.
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