Kevin Pietersen's Midas touch continues
Cricinfo
25-Feb-2013
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After his captaincy tenure got off to a dream start in the one-day format as well, the England papers are singing Kevin Pietersen’s praises. Scyld Berry writes in the Sunday Telegraph that while Pietersen has taken his whole game to a new level, his biggest achievement since taking over has been bringing the best out of Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison.
His captaincy will no doubt end in tears, for England captains always end in tears, because the job is unsustainable, and nothing is done to reduce the over-load. But with each week of his nascent captaincy, the promise grows that before the premature ending there will be some glorious moments.
In the Observer, Vic Marks says Pietersen’s captaincy is reminiscent of Nasser Hussain’s. He says that for both, when it came to selecting teams, what mattered was talent and not whether players were reliable or matey.
Lawrence Booth, writing in the Sunday Times, is impressed that immediately after the win at Headingley, instead of savouring the win, Pietersen was urging his team-mates to prepare for the next ODI at Nottingham.