Results for tag: Kevin Pietersen
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 21, 2011 at 11:50:14 AM
[b]The last time these two teams met in an international tournament, it was the men in orange who secured a famous victory. Can they spring another surprise?[/b]
London Start Time: 09:00
Venue and conditions
The Vidharbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur has only hosted two one day internationals, but both were high scoring affairs and scores in excess of 300 will be the norm here. Teams winning the toss in India invariably bat first as the pitches tend to help slow bowlers in the second half of the game, but an extra complication in Nagpur is the possibility of dew later on in the daygame, which will make it harder for the spinners to grip the ball.
[b]Team News[/b]
There are no injury problems for the Netherlands and theirs is a pretty settled team. Assuming Graeme...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 17, 2011 at 02:29:26 PM
[b]It may smell of desperation, panic and 'fuzzy thinking' but the very late decision to use Kevin Pietersen as an opener alongside Andrew Strauss may yet prove to be a shrewd one by Andy Flower, says Ralph Ellis.[/b]
I know that since 1969 you've been able to vote at 18. But 42 years later you've only got to look in most card shops to know that 21 is still considered the magic number at which you grow up.
I wonder then if there will be some significance about Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss becoming England's 21st opening partnership in just four years of One Day Internationals since the last World Cup. Coach Andy Flower is clearly hoping his latest experiment will signal a coming of age for his team.
It's an odd time to be testing the theory. Flower has built his very considerable...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 6, 2010 at 07:42:52 PM
There was a kid at one of my old schools called [b]Harry Hastings[/b]. It might have been something to do with his heritage given his name, 1066 and all that, but the kid was a crack shot when it came to using the plastic ruler like a sling shot. He was brilliant, he could hit the back of a teacher's head from 15 metres which quickly gained him hero status. It was a sad, sad day for us all when he was banned from using a plastic ruler and was instead given a rigid wooden one and told "if you can't use a plastic ruler sensibly then you are not using it at all!"
The ECB might have to follow the lead of stressed out inner-city teachers and come down hard on habitual offenders that can't use things sensibly. [b]Kevin Pietersen[/b] has had an awesome second Test, notching a double hundred...