'Write off Pietersen as an ODI batsman at your own peril'

Back to his best in Tests, he has all the skills to establish himself as the best 50-over batsman in the world, writes Mike Selvey in the Observer.

England now need this return to form, and rediscovered enthusiasm, to be channelled into the one-day game. He is in the prime of his life as a batsman now, that period where a little of the exuberance of youth remains but it is now allied to the calculating mind of an experienced, mature batsman.