It looks like that hard
hitter English batsman, Kevin Pietersen, cannot take pressure of playing too
much international cricket in a calendar year. The 31-year-old player has taken
retirement from ODI and T20 cricket. However, he will continue playing Test
cricket for England.
His decision of taking
retirement from all limited-overs international has come as a big blow for England cricket team. It comes almost four months before
the start of T20 World Cup 2012 in Sri Lanka. England will try to defend their title for the second
time.
However, he has no
interest of taking retirement
from the IPL. This kind of decision will further increase tensions between IPL
and international cricket. It will also intensify the debate of IPL getting
more importance than the national service.
Kevin Pietersen thinks
that his retirement will help young players to show their talent in the
international arena. Pietersen should re-think about his decision and should
make his inclusion to England’s T20 squad to defend the title.
Pietersen has played 127
ODI matches and scored 4184 at an average of 41.84 with a career best 130. In
ODI format of cricket game, he has scored 9 centuries and 23 half-centuries. Playing
36 T20s, he has scored 1176 runs at an average of 37.93 with 7 half-centuries.
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