Kevin Pietersen accepts it was for the "benefit of English cricket" he lost the England captaincy and mentor Peter Moores was sacked two years back.
Pietersen says successors Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower "need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half", incorporating a twofold Ashes score.
After England held the Ashes, the batsman said: "We might not be here today provided that I had not done what I did.
"I disposed of the captaincy for the benefit of English cricket."
Triumph in the fourth Test in Melbourne saw England hold the urn without precedent in 24 years, and an attract the last Test in Sydney might accumulate an arrangement score Australia to many people's surprise since 1987.
Strauss and Andy Flower need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half and an incredible arrangement for this group
Kevin Pietersen
"It's absolutely impossible in this planet that we might have succeeded under that administration and won the Ashes again in Australia 24 years later," said Pietersen.
"Strauss and Andy Flower need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half and an incredible arrangement for this group, and they are the right initiative for this crew.
"They are simply exceptionally great at keeping us reasonable and granulated and strong.
"[strauss] takes care of himself after he has taken care of every living soul else which is an incredible nature of an incredible commander."
Inquired as to whether Strauss was an improved commander than him, Pietersen answered: "Who knows?
"Everything I can say is they have made an inconceivable showing, and I am so upbeat for both of them."
Pietersen was condemning of Moores in a report to the England and Wales Cricket Board (Ecb) after a tour of India in late 2008 and the Ecb responded by sacking both commander and mentor in promptly 2009, offering the captain's work to Strauss.
"He [strauss] gave me the telephone call and said: 'the Ecb need me to commander; are you Ok with that?'," Pietersen reviewed.
"I said 'go for it, Straussy, you're a top man'. I said 'i'm a great mate of yours, pull out all the stops, do whatever you need to,' and I've been demonstrated right. It was an exceptional choice by the Ecb."
Pietersen was England's best batsmen on the 2006-07 tour of Australia yet still imparted the disgracefulness of the 5-0 Ashes whitewash.
Having not scored a Test century for year and a half preceding this tour, he hit a vocation best 227 and was named man of the match in England's first triumph of the arrangement in Adelaide.
Pietersen has a normal of 64.8 from his five innings to date, England's third greatest supporter (324 runs) behind Alastair Cook (577 runs at a normal of 115.4) and Jonathan Trott (445 at 111.3).
Tom Fordyce's 4th Test Ratings
Pietersen's half-century might not have been the greatest score of England's innings however it proceeded his side's advancement on a possibly unreliable second day
"It's the best feeling in my vocation, nothing beats this," included the 30-year-old, who was likewise part of the side that won the Ashes at home in 2005 and 2009, granted that his association in the last was diminished by damage.
"As an Englishman, scoring in England in 2005 was astonishing after it had not been beaten a certain measure of years, yet individuals dependably discussed the way that when you head off to Australia it is an alternate pot of fish and the final time we came here we got pounded.
"This time we have come here knowing the readiness has been correct, realizing what to want from the swarms, from the people in the road, individuals in lodgings and taxi drivers to players out in the center.
"We were advised to beware of this and we realized what to envision. We dependably supposed we might do a considerable measure a cut above final time, I was certain of that and that has demonstrated right."
Pietersen says successors Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower "need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half", incorporating a twofold Ashes score.
After England held the Ashes, the batsman said: "We might not be here today provided that I had not done what I did.
"I disposed of the captaincy for the benefit of English cricket."
Triumph in the fourth Test in Melbourne saw England hold the urn without precedent in 24 years, and an attract the last Test in Sydney might accumulate an arrangement score Australia to many people's surprise since 1987.
Strauss and Andy Flower need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half and an incredible arrangement for this group
Kevin Pietersen
"It's absolutely impossible in this planet that we might have succeeded under that administration and won the Ashes again in Australia 24 years later," said Pietersen.
"Strauss and Andy Flower need all the applauses for a staggering year and a half and an incredible arrangement for this group, and they are the right initiative for this crew.
"They are simply exceptionally great at keeping us reasonable and granulated and strong.
"[strauss] takes care of himself after he has taken care of every living soul else which is an incredible nature of an incredible commander."
Inquired as to whether Strauss was an improved commander than him, Pietersen answered: "Who knows?
"Everything I can say is they have made an inconceivable showing, and I am so upbeat for both of them."
Pietersen was condemning of Moores in a report to the England and Wales Cricket Board (Ecb) after a tour of India in late 2008 and the Ecb responded by sacking both commander and mentor in promptly 2009, offering the captain's work to Strauss.
"He [strauss] gave me the telephone call and said: 'the Ecb need me to commander; are you Ok with that?'," Pietersen reviewed.
"I said 'go for it, Straussy, you're a top man'. I said 'i'm a great mate of yours, pull out all the stops, do whatever you need to,' and I've been demonstrated right. It was an exceptional choice by the Ecb."
Pietersen was England's best batsmen on the 2006-07 tour of Australia yet still imparted the disgracefulness of the 5-0 Ashes whitewash.
Having not scored a Test century for year and a half preceding this tour, he hit a vocation best 227 and was named man of the match in England's first triumph of the arrangement in Adelaide.
Pietersen has a normal of 64.8 from his five innings to date, England's third greatest supporter (324 runs) behind Alastair Cook (577 runs at a normal of 115.4) and Jonathan Trott (445 at 111.3).
Tom Fordyce's 4th Test Ratings
Pietersen's half-century might not have been the greatest score of England's innings however it proceeded his side's advancement on a possibly unreliable second day
"It's the best feeling in my vocation, nothing beats this," included the 30-year-old, who was likewise part of the side that won the Ashes at home in 2005 and 2009, granted that his association in the last was diminished by damage.
"As an Englishman, scoring in England in 2005 was astonishing after it had not been beaten a certain measure of years, yet individuals dependably discussed the way that when you head off to Australia it is an alternate pot of fish and the final time we came here we got pounded.
"This time we have come here knowing the readiness has been correct, realizing what to want from the swarms, from the people in the road, individuals in lodgings and taxi drivers to players out in the center.
"We were advised to beware of this and we realized what to envision. We dependably supposed we might do a considerable measure a cut above final time, I was certain of that and that has demonstrated right."
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