Carter's loan move is a disgrace

England captain Kevin Pietersen has branded Neil Carter's loan from Warwickshire to Middlesex a "disgrace".

South Africa-born Carter, 33, will face England for Middlesex in the Stanford Super Series and may play for the county in the Champions League in India in December.

Pietersen is aghast at Middlesex's low and shifty move to sign up the money-grabbing Bears all-rounder on a temporary basis.

"Look at Carter playing against us this weekend," said Pietersen, who turned his back on the country where he was born and raised because he perceived better career options elsewhere. "It's a disgrace really," added the 28-year-old who is reviled at Nottinghamshire whom he could not leave quickly enough after they had given him his first chance in county cricket.

"That's just the way it is. There are no rules preventing it," lamented Pietersen who accepted the England captaincy earlier this year, just a few months after revealing that he would not be taking the loot on offer from Indian Twenty20 leagues "just yet" and whose agent only recently confirmed that his client is "keen to play" in the ICL in 2009.

"It [Carter's loan move] is just weird and a hard thing to get your head around," added a confused Pietersen, who evidently finds a simple, short-term loan deal morally reprehensible but whose views, last April, on cricketers taking the India loot, included: "People who nail us for it are not going to pay for my child's school fees in 15 years' time. You have to look after yourself because you are not going to be playing cricket when you are 50 or 60. To be offered the kind of money I have been offered, it is ridiculous for someone to abuse you about it. The guys are going to get so much money from the IPL. Why would a fast bowler want to come and play in England, tour up and down the country for six months, play in everything that he has to, and have the pressure that he is under, to earn 70 grand (thousand pounds), when he could play in India for six weeks and earn 500 grand?"