LANCASHIRE legend Ian Austin believes England’s team management need to take an ‘arrogant’ Kevin Pietersen to one side and drill into him the discipline required to make him a top cricketer who will be long remembered.

Pietersen goes into today’s second Test at Lord’s with criticism over the manner of his dismissal in the first match at Cardiff last week ringing in his ears after he got out attempting to play an audacious sweep off former Nelson pro Nathan Hauritz.

He had made 69 but Austin insists the South African-born talisman must do better for his side if he is to go down in history as a true great.

“It’s all very well getting sixty-odds but great players go in, tough it out and make big hundreds,” said Austin.

“And Pietersen’s reaction to the criticism was arrogant and if I was in charge, the captain and team manager would take him into a room and challenge him.

“I would be telling him to prove that he is the player he thinks he is.

“People don’t remember batsmen who make 60s. They remember the men who make 160s – and Pietersen needs to start doing that.

“If he wants to be classed as a great – and he seems to think that he is – he has to start making the big scores.

“There was no need for him to get out last week. He could have got a ton fifty easily.

“He needs to look at the likes of Ricky Ponting with 38 Test tons or Sachin Tendulkar with 80 or 90 or however many international hundreds.

“He needs to look at Boycott and Hick, who capitalised on their chances to make the big scores.”

While Pietersen was out in the second innings cheaply bowled without playing a shot, Austin would prefer him to play like that more often and insists he shouldn’t be castigated for that blip.

“There’s no problem with his second innings dismissal,” he said. “He was trying to play a responsible knock and it was just a misjudgement. He left the wrong ball. That happens to all players.

“He wasn’t going out to give his wicket away like he did in the first. It shows he thinks about the game.”

Austin believes Pietersen can be a key for England as they look to regain the Ashes – but is well aware that they need to improve if they are to beat Australia at Lord’s for the first time since the 1930s.

“We have to do better,” he said.

“We didn’t bowl well enough at Cardiff.”

For today’s game, Austin hopes the selectors bring in Graham Onions for his Ashes debut – and believes Panesar will be the man to miss out.

“To me Panesar’s bowling has not improved,” he said.

“And you are never confident when he goes for a catch and you wouldn’t put too much money on him stopping anything in the field either.”