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Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen

MBE
Pietersen in 2014
Personal information
Full name
Kevin Peter Pietersen
Born (1980-06-27) 27 June 1980 (age 43)
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
NicknameKP
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm off break
RoleTop-order batter
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 626)21 July 2005 v Australia
Last Test3 January 2014 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 185)28 November 2004 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI16 September 2013 v Australia
ODI shirt no.24
T20I debut (cap 7)13 June 2005 v Australia
Last T20I27 June 2013 v New Zealand
T20I shirt no.24
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1997/98Natal B (squad no. 24[citation needed])
1998/99KwaZulu Natal B (squad no. 24)
1998/99–1999/00KwaZulu Natal (squad no. 24)
2001–2004Nottinghamshire (squad no. 24)
2004Marylebone Cricket Club
2005–2010Hampshire (squad no. 24)
2009–2010Royal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 24)
2010–2017Surrey (squad no. 24)
2010/11Dolphins
2012–2014Delhi Daredevils (squad no. 24)
2014–2015St Lucia Stars (squad no. 24)
2014/15–2017/18Melbourne Stars (squad no. 24)
2015/16–2016/17Dolphins (squad no. 24)
2016–2018Quetta Gladiators (squad no. 24)
2016Rising Pune Supergiants (squad no. 24)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 104 136 217 253
Runs scored 8,181 4,440 16,522 8,112
Batting average 47.28 40.73 49.76 40.76
100s/50s 23/35 9/25 50/71 15/46
Top score 227 130 355* 147
Balls bowled 1,311 400 6,443 2,390
Wickets 10 7 73 41
Bowling average 88.60 52.86 51.50 51.75
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/52 2/22 4/31 3/14
Catches/stumpings 62/– 40/– 152/– 85/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  England
T20 World Cup
Winner 2010 West Indies
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 May 2019

Kevin Peter Pietersen MBE (born 27 June 1980) is a British-South African cricket commentator, conservationist, and former England international captain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English batsman to have played the game. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who played in all three formats for England between 2005 and 2014, which included a brief tenure as captain. He won the Player of the Series award for his heroics in 2010 ICC World Twenty20 and for helping the England Cricket Team win their maiden ICC trophy.

Pietersen was born to an Afrikaner father and English mother in South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 and moved to England in 2000, after voicing his displeasure at what he said was the racial quota system in South African cricket.[1] Being of English ancestry, Pietersen was eligible for the England team so long as he first served a four-year qualifying period in English county cricket. He was called up by England almost immediately after he completed four years with Nottinghamshire. He made his international debut in the One Day International (ODI) match against Zimbabwe in 2004 and his Test match debut in the 2005 Ashes series against Australia.[2]

Pietersen left Nottinghamshire for Hampshire in 2005, but the England team's subsequent reliance on him resulted in Pietersen making only a single first-class appearance for his new county between 2005 and 2010. In June 2010, Pietersen announced his wish to leave Hampshire;[3] he joined Surrey on loan for the remainder of the season, then moved permanently in 2011.[4][5]

Pietersen was captain of the England Test and ODI teams from 4 August 2008 to 7 January 2009, but resigned after just three Tests and nine ODIs following a dispute with the England coach Peter Moores, who was sacked the same day.[6] Pietersen's relationship with the ECB never fully recovered. This came to a head in 2012 when, after a disagreement over his schedule, Pietersen announced his retirement from all forms of international limited-overs cricket on 31 May.[7][8] Although he later retracted his retirement, his relationship with both the ECB and his team-mates soured during the series against South Africa,[9] and he was dropped for the final Test of that series.[10] Pietersen last played for England in the 2013–14 Ashes and subsequent ODIs, after which he was informed that he was no longer being considered for international selection.

He also played for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League until the end of BBL|07 (seventh season), the Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League as well as the Hollywoodbets Dolphins in the CSA T20 Challenge. He was also signed by the Rising Pune Supergiants for the 2016 season of the Indian Premier League.

Pietersen is one of the fastest batsman to reach 1,000 ODI runs and still holds the record for being the fastest player to cross 2,000 runs in One Day International cricket.[11][12] He has the second-highest run total from his first 25 Tests, behind only Sir Don Bradman of Australia,[13] and was the fastest player, in terms of days, to reach 4,000, 5,000 and 7,000 Test runs.[14][15][16] He became only the third English batsman to top the ICC One Day International rankings, doing so in March 2007.[17] In July 2008, after a century against South Africa, The Times called him "the most complete batsman in cricket"[18] and in 2012 The Guardian called him "England's greatest modern batsman".[19] On the occasion of England's 1000th Test in August 2018, he was named in the country's greatest Test XI by the ECB.[20]

  1. ^ "Kevin Pietersen biography". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
  2. ^ "Test Matches played by Kevin Pietersen". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference leaving hampshire ESPNcricinfo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Pietersen dropped by England, joins Surrey". Reuters. 31 August 2010.
  5. ^ Aspin, Guy (22 November 2010). "Kevin Pietersen signs deal with Surrey". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
  6. ^ "England captain Pietersen resigns". BBC Sport. 7 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  7. ^ "Kevin Pietersen retires from limited overs cricket: ECB". The Times of India. 31 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Pietersen quits ODIs, T20 internationals". Wisden India. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012.
  9. ^ "Pietersen hints at Test retirement". Wisden India. 6 August 2012. Archived from the original on 10 August 2012.
  10. ^ "Pietersen dropped over text messages". 12 August 2012.
  11. ^ "ODIs – Fastest to 1000 Career Runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 May 2007.
  12. ^ Rajesh, S; Gopalakrishna, HR (21 April 2007). "Pietersen breaks a jinx". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 May 2007.
  13. ^ Brenkley, Stephen. "Second Test: Pietersen plunders before the collapse Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine", The Independent, 27 May 2007. Retrieved on 27 May 2007.
  14. ^ Basevi, Travis; George Binoy (24 March 2010). "From zero to 5000 runs in 1703 days". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  15. ^ Dobell, George (7 August 2012). "Pietersen threatens England exit". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  16. ^ "Fastest to 4000 runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
  17. ^ "Pietersen jumps to top of ODI rankings", ESPNcricinfo, 26 March 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
  18. ^ "[1]", The Times, 13 July 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
  19. ^ "Kevin Pietersen is England's greatest modern batsman – flaws and all", The Guardian, 17 February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  20. ^ "England's greatest Test XI revealed". ICC. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2019.

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