What's the matter with Kevin?
At some point very soon, either after this game or once the series is over, Andy Flower needs to sit down with Kevin Pietersen and work out what the future holds, writes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
At some point very soon, either after this game or once the series is over, Andy Flower needs to sit down with Kevin Pietersen and work out what the future holds, writes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail.
Watching him closely out here in South Africa, I’ve sensed he’s been a bit sidetracked. It’s not been anything obvious — just his body language and the way he’s been in the field. He looks a bit lost mentally, as if he doesn’t quite know where he’s going next. This may be down to a couple of reasons. Obviously he missed most of the Ashes hype last summer after having achilles surgery, so he may be feeling a little detached from it all. But I also think he may not quite have got the Peter Moores fiasco out of his system.
For Pietersen this has been no fairytale return to his native land. He is not inspiring much awe any more and there is the whisper that the South Africans sense a vulnerability against extreme pace in general and Dale Steyn in particular, writes Vic Marks in the Guardian.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo