With the war a mere eight days old, Kevin Pietersen led England’s belated battle charge.
England contrived to fail to bowl their opponents out for most of the day, but again kept themselves in the game with a strong final session.
Even from beyond the grave, Kevin Pietersen’s international limited overs career continues to stir debate. Just to reiterate: Kevin Pietersen is not dead, it was just a joke that seems to have been taken seriously by a few people. And a national television channel.
The County Championship is back! If it was 1989, this would presumably have been one of the lead stories for this week’s edition of the Junior Gazette.
With T20 crowds in England at their lowest since the format was invented in 2003, Steve Grant pinpoints the reason and offers a very simple solution.
The crowd came out in numbers to see one of the great limited overs openers bashing the ball to all parts. And that’s exactly what they got.
And so begins a one-day jamboree. Strap in.
Is that actually a crowd at a county game? It can mean only one thing – it’s T20 time! We got the 51allout brains trust together to basically backtrack on all the previews we did at the start of the season.
Kevin Pietersen can be described as many things. Impulsive. Exciting. The man who pinched our future wife. And now a former limited overs international player.