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LONDON – Weeks after announcing his retirement from limited overs internationals to spend more time charcoal sketching the Taj Mahal, Kevin Pietersen has hinted he now hopes to return to the England fold for the T20 World Cup in September.
Speaking to a popular British celebrity magazine, the controversial star also confirmed rumours that he now has ‘Boom Boom’ tattooed across his knuckles and claimed he understood why some people felt a bit miffed about one of the leading talents of his generation calling time on two-thirds of his England career in order to build meaningless partnerships with Venugopal Rao.
“I never said the door was shut,” explained the future Dhaka Gladiators batsman as he relaxed at home taking notes from Mohammad Yousuf’s autobiography. “Plenty of world-class players decide to take an early retirement, and if you include the likes of [Shahid] Afridi, some decide to take several.”
“For now, I’ve made my decision and I’m not going to get drawn into a war of words with the ECB just because their contract policy is more rigid and unyielding than a Diplodocus hard-on.”
The news of a possible England comeback has been greeted ecstatically by fans across the globe, although one leading commentator expressed alarm that KP’s return might halt the momentum of a side which is performing so well without him.
“It looks like I’ve done some analysis and the simple fact is that England would have lost the Australia series 4-0 if Pietersen was playing,” said Nick Knight, as a strange shuffling sound was heard near Michael Holding’s feet in the Sky commentary box. “I said England would be a better team without him and the fact that they’ve annihilated an Australian line-up containing both Xavier Doherty and Peter Forrest rather proves me correct, don’t you think?”
Later in the interview, Pietersen went on to defend his time playing for the Delhi Daredevils and incredibly revealed that musing on his IPL stint was the reason for the possible about-turn: “The other day I read an interview with Sourav Ganguly where he said he thought he retired from international cricket too early and, you know, it just made me think of how well he played in the recent IPL and what he could still offer the present India side. I don’t want to have regrets like that.”
“Also, at this late stage, it would be selfish to withdraw from my handshake agreement with the Sydney Sixers,” added Pietersen. “The opportunity to work with the Steve Smith doesn’t come along everyday, and I’d willingly perform a ritual sacrifice on a Delhi 2nd XI player just for the chance to learn his inside-out switch-hit.”
– Weeks after announcing his retirement from limited overs internationals to spend more time charcoal sketching the Taj Mahal, Kevin Pietersen has hinted he now hopes to return to the England fold for the T20 World Cup in September.
Speaking to a popular British celebrity magazine, the controversial star also confirmed rumours that he now has ‘Boom Boom’ tattooed across his knuckles and claimed he understood why some people felt a bit miffed about one of the leading talents of his generation calling time on two-thirds of his England career in order to build meaningless partnerships with Venugopal Rao.
“I never said the door was shut,” explained the future Dhaka Gladiators batsman as he relaxed at home taking notes from Mohammad Yousuf’s autobiography. “Plenty of world-class players decide to take an early retirement, and if you include the likes of [Shahid] Afridi, some decide to take several.”
“For now, I’ve made my decision and I’m not going to get drawn into a war of words with the ECB just because their contract policy is more rigid and unyielding than a Diplodocus hard-on.”
The news of a possible England comeback has been greeted ecstatically by fans across the globe, although one leading commentator expressed alarm that KP’s return might halt the momentum of a side which is performing so well without him.
“It looks like I’ve done some analysis and the simple fact is that England would have lost the Australia series 4-0 if Pietersen was playing,” said Nick Knight, as a strange shuffling sound was heard near Michael Holding’s feet in the Sky commentary box. “I said England would be a better team without him and the fact that they’ve annihilated an Australian line-up containing both Xavier Doherty and Peter Forrest rather proves me correct, don’t you think?”
Later in the interview, Pietersen went on to defend his time playing for the Delhi Daredevils and incredibly revealed that musing on his IPL stint was the reason for the possible about-turn: “The other day I read an interview with Sourav Ganguly where he said he thought he retired from international cricket too early and, you know, it just made me think of how well he played in the recent IPL and what he could still offer the present India side. I don’t want to have regrets like that.”
“Also, at this late stage, it would be selfish to withdraw from my handshake agreement with the Sydney Sixers,” added Pietersen. “The opportunity to work with the Steve Smith doesn’t come along everyday, and I’d willingly perform a ritual sacrifice on a Delhi 2nd XI player just for the chance to learn his inside-out switch-hit.”
