ECB (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Kevin Pietersen has been England's most prolific batsman ever since his first defining intervention with the innings which clinched the 2005 Ashes and sent his adopted country into raptures.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Melbourne: Sachin Tendulkar failed to get a single vote as Cricket Australia (CA)'s contracted players chose Englishman Kevin Pietersen as the best batsman in the world outside their country.
Beta Labs (Free subscription) | yesterday
England squad – Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Matt Prior, Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Jimmy Anderson, Monty Panesar, Ian Bell, Graham Onions. Danny Denhard You will love these May 15, 2009 — Dizzee Rascal bonkers live at One Big weekender – video March 24, 2009 — New Reebok Boots adverts – Thierry...
CricHotLine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Test squad : Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wk), Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar. Graham Onions will compete with Monty Panesar for England’s final bowling spot in the first Test at Cardiff on Wednesday, after he and Ian Bell [...]
Danny Pugsley (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steve Harmison has failed to make the 13-man England squad for the first Ashes Test against Australia, which starts in Cardiff on Wednesday. The paceman put himself in contention after taking six wickets for the England Lions against the tourists in a warm-up game but he has been left out. > > bbc sport Given there were no surprises with the names that made the squad, the focus has fallen on...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
England's captain believes the signs are good that his team can recapture the fighting mood of 2005 The time may be right for Andrew Strauss. Remember all the agonising at the end of the 2006 season about who should lead England to Australia, Andrew Flintoff or Strauss. We know who was chosen and with hindsight most of us agree that they picked the wrong man – though it was not so obvious at...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
For all his faults, his ability to unite the side around him means the Lancastrian all-rounder still holds the key to the Ashes Wherever Andrew Flintoff is now on the graph of his cricketing prowess, he is hard at work in the thoughts of Australia's players, spreading doubt, stoking memories of 2005, reviving an old baggy green wish that he had been born an Antipodean instead of a Lancastrian scamp....
Sify (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
London: Captaincy had bogged down fiery English batsman Kevin Pietersen to such an extent that he now equates the job to facing an oncoming train and says it gets worse when the
Danny Pugsley (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
It was some clever scheduling to have England and Australia play warm up games simultaneously ahead of the 1st Ashes test next week. They were two different games of course though. England having an easier time of things with a game against a less than full-strength Warwickshire, whilst Australia took on a Lions side featuring plenty of players with something to prove. And so it panned out. England...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
England approach an Ashes series captained by an equable, public school-educated, left-handed batsman, whose brief includes the careful handling of a barnstorming player previously deposed as captain himself. For 2009 read 1989, for Andrew Strauss read David Gower, and for Kevin Pietersen read Ian Botham. And if you still need convincing that nothing is new under the cricketing sun, consider the abject...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Alastair Cook is 24 and has scored 3,287 Test runs. No England batsman has amassed so many so young and when he is 34, given a fair wind, Cook may well be the heaviest scorer of the lot. Ahead of Graham Gooch, Geoff Boycott, David Gower and, who knows, Kevin Pietersen.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
One of Shane Warne's more withering lines of propaganda is that England would not have the beginnings of an Ashes challenge without their heavyweight foreign mercenary Kevin Pietersen.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Warwickshire 102 & 27-3 England XI 290-8d & 319-3d Match drawn Andrew Flintoff was late on parade again this afternoon. But panic not. When England finally took to the field after tea Flintoff and Graeme Swann trotted on after the completion of the first over and there was not the hint of an apology from either of them. Denied any batting practice in the middle they had just returned from...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Kevin Pietersen can't wait to renew battle with Australia for The Ashes.
The Age (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Kevin Pietersen is the best batsman in the world. Just ask him.
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