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Rain provided the only respite for Australia on day three of the Adelaide Ashes Test, but this is a day that will be remembered as the one that Kevin Pietersen announced his return to form. At stumps, KP had guided his side to a 306-run lead over the hosts. Read the full article at http://bit.ly/h0cTUe.
Kevin Pietersen may have been a rather peripheral figure in the first Test match of this Ashes series but he is not a man to remain absent from the spotlight for too long. As England prepare for the second Test against Australia, which begins on Friday, the batsman was quick to express his annoyance that [...]
Kevin Pietersen may have declared himself “on fire” following scores of 58 and 35 against Western Australia in England’s first pre-Ashes tour match, but the flamboyant batsman could still stand to learn a thing or two from the steady heads of teammates Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell. Read the full article http://blogs.bettor.com/Collingwood-and-Bell-fire-in-Ashes-warm-up-a40372.
Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas have been fined for posts they put on their Twitter pages. Find out the details at http://blogs.bettor.com/Twitter-gets-Pietersen-and-Mascarenhas-in-fine-mess-a25700.
Kevin Pietersen is not indispensible. That was the message England’s selectors sent to the highly talented but out-of-form batsman when they dropped him from both their Twenty20 and ODI squads to face Pakistan this month. The full article is available at http://blogs.bettor.com/Kevin-Pietersens-Surrey-stint-a-timely-wake-up-a24796
Kevin Pietersen beat the ECB to the punch by earlier today posting on his Twitter site that he was out of the England squad for the remainder of the summer, but the news has now been confirmed on the ECB website. More at http://blogs.bettor.com/ECB-confirm-Kevin-Pietersen-omitted-from-England-squad-a24613.
A tweet posted on Kevin Pietersen’s twitter account (since removed) seems to have revealed the England batsman is out of the side for the remainder of England’s summer. More at http://blogs.bettor.com/Kevin-Pietersen-axed-from-England-tweet-reveals-a24582
England looked to be cruising towards a 4-0 whitewash of their current Test series against Pakistan before hitting a bump in the road with a four-wicket loss at The Oval last match to ensure the series remains alive into the final Test at Lord’s. To read the full preview, visit http://blogs.bettor.com/England-vs-Pakistan-Lords-Test-preview-a23452.
Pakistan have taken the honours in the first session of the third Test of their series against England, with some sharp fielding ensuring their pace attack gained reward for effort as Pakistan sent the hosts to lunch on 70-5. Test debutant Wahab Riaz has done the majority of the damage, taking 3-16 in the morning [...]
After dismissing Pakistan for 72 earlier in the day, England have taken a 40-run lead at stumps on day one at Edgbaston, with Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott to resume the task of building an insurmountable total tomorrow after both benefitted from some sloppy Pakistan fielding early in their respective innings. More at http://blogs.bettor.com/England-vs-Pakistan-at-Edgbaston-stumps-report-day-one-a20637.