England's urban warrior

Urban cricket is defined as "no hassle cricket with no rules," and... In Pietersen's hands Test cricket is urban cricket writes David Hopps in The Guardian

His worst shots bear such little relation to the coaching manuals that they should be added to the statistics on urban crime. His most brilliant shots are so ambitiously executed that, in the city, such confidence rarely comes without the assistance of a snort of cocaine. His perpetual impatience is the essence of the city, every innings played as restively as a man rushing down an escalator for a departing tube. Do not tell him that there will be another ball along in a minute. He wants this ball, this tube, now.