Kieswetter's sights set on international comeback
Craig Kieswetter appeared very much a work in progress in his fledgling international career, writes Barney Ronay in The Guardian
Liam Brickhill
25-Feb-2013
Craig Kieswetter appeared very much a work in progress in his fledgling international career, writes Barney Ronay in The Guardian. But an "impressively focused and ambitious young cricketer" re-jigged both his batting and his wicketkeeping over the winter with the help of former England players Graham Thorpe and Bruce French and has stated his ambition to become England's first-choice keeper in all formats.
At the age of 23, Kieswetter has carved out a niche as a notably fast-forward kind of cricketer, not just in his batting style but in the content-rich detail of his tyro career to date. In the last five years, he has played representative cricket for South Africa and England, rejected the country of his birth, been picked and then dropped by England's one-day selectors, remodelled his game at least once and earned a distinction unmatched by any cricketer in England's history: a man-of-the-match award from the final of an ICC trophy, in which his team were victorious.
Liam Brickhill is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town