Horsing around
Kevin Pietersens run glut has meant that comparisons to another Africa-born Englishman, Graeme Hick, have been made for quite some time
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
Kevin Pietersens run glut has meant that comparisons to another Africa-born Englishman, Graeme Hick, have been made for quite some time. Although Pietersen has forged ahead of Hick by making it in the international scene, The Guardian's Micheal Henderson dwells on the differing personalities of the run machines, making it pretty clear who he admires.
One man values restraint; the other is a show pony, with the rosettes to prove it. It is hard to imagine Hick leaping on a batting partner as Pietersen leapt upon Michael Vaughan when the England captain completed his century last Friday. But then Pietersen clearly imagines he is "the skipper's mate" (he isn't, actually) just as he was "Goughy's mate" when his English papers came through, and he is "Warney's mate" at Southampton.
Ashok Ganguly is an editorial assistant at Cricinfo