Kevin Pietersen's alleged behaviour in his final weeks as an England player has been detailed in a leaked document that portrays the former England batsman as a troublesome member of a struggling squad.

One allegation concerns Pietersen’s damning indictment of his former Hampshire colleague Michael Carberry during last winter’s dismal Ashes series defeat in Australia.

The document states that Pietersen had a dig at Carberry, the batsman who was tasked with opening in Australia.

It said: “KP made disparaging remarks about Michael Carberry in front of other England players and team management prior to the Fourth Test, stating ‘Aren't there any better players at County level? Carberry is useless’.”

That in itself is a contradiction to an interview Carberry (below) gave in March in which he said: "Through the tour, certainly, Kev was very helpful to me.

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“Over the years Kev, as one of the greats of the game, has always been very helpful in talking about the mental side."

The England and Wales Cricket Board said the list of Pietersen's misdemeanours in last winter's Ashes, which was leaked to media yesterday, was not the tour report delivered by former coach Andy Flower.

The ECB has not denied the existence of a fuller Flower 'dossier', but stressed in a statement the draft email that found its way into the public domain was not it.

Pietersen nonetheless finds himself the primary focus of a near day-by-day account of events in Australia, from the first Test in Brisbane to England's final defeat in Sydney.

It specifies instances of Pietersen being "disengaged" during Flower's addresses to team meetings, another entry relating he wanted to leave the tour because of pain in his knee if England lost the third Test to go 3-0 down - which they did - and later, abusive subsequent exchanges between him and his team-mates as relationships apparently broke down.

The entry from the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, under a heading "Alleged behaviour by KP/incidents involving KP", reads: "Immediately following England's fourth day defeat in the Fourth Test, AF [Flower] encouraged Alistair Cook (AC) to lead a team meeting without team management in attendance to try and rally the squad before the final Test. KP told Matt Prior (MP) (and possibly others) that he had no interest in going to the meeting. MP told KP that it was 'team time, not family time'."

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In the same portion of the document, which was published on Cricinfo, mention is made of Pietersen's attitude to tweets by his celebrity friend Piers Morgan deriding captain Cook.

The entry states: "It riled the team and management that KP allowed Piers Morgan to belittle AC and the team on social media. When asked by some of his team mates to get Piers Morgan to stop tweeting about the team, KP laughed at the players and told them to get a thicker skin."

Morgan responded to that entry with a tongue-in-cheek Twitter note, saying: "I would like to apologise to all England cricket fans for costing us The Ashes this winter. #SecretDossier #ECBClowns"