Pietersen yet to crack the subcontinent
Kevin Pietersen has much to play for this week, as England seek to level the series against Sri Lanka and avoid a fifth straight Test loss, writes Stephen Brenkley in the Independent on Sunday .
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Kevin Pietersen has much to play for this week, as England seek to level the series against Sri Lanka and avoid a fifth straight Test loss, writes Stephen Brenkley in the Independent on Sunday.
His overall Test average remains around 48 but in the Subcontinent it is 33 and if two Tests he played in Bangladesh are removed it is 28. Maybe it is the booming front foot and hard hands on slow turners. Ricky Ponting, the great Australian, suffered similarly. An average of 54 overall comes down to below 40 and it took him until his fourth tour of India to make a century.
In the Guardian, Vic Marks says it will be surprising if Andrew Strauss loses his captaincy over the team's poor fortunes in the subcontinent thus far but adds that he needs to find some form in Sri Lanka.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo