Pietersen warns Aussies of their reverse swinging bowlers

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - England batsman Kevin Pietersen has revealed that his wife was furious over a comment made by him last year, where he said that hitting 100 runs for the country was better than sex. Pietersen said that his wife, Jessica Taylor, " wasn't happy" about his comment "Centuries don't come round very often, whereas sex is on tap, isn't it?" "I said to her, 'Darling, you've just got to compare the statistics, I've got 16 Test hundreds and seven in one-day matches.

August 2nd, 2009 BIRMINGHAM - Injured England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has said that after the retirement of Andrew Flintoff, swing bowlers Jimmy Anderson and Graham Onions would keep English bowling line-up alive. Anderson and Onions had bagged nine wickets amongst them on the second day of the Third Ashes Test to skittle the Aussies for a paltry 263, which robbed the Aussies of any chance to make a comeback in the series.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - England swing bowler Jimmy Anderson has given the credit to bowling coach Ottis Gibson for preparing the swing onslaught that undermined Australia in the third Test at Edgbaston. "I said at Lord's that Ottis had done a fantastic job, looking at the footage of their guys and we've looked at ourselves.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former South African fast bowler Allan Donald said the International Cricket Council (ICC) should legalise ball tampering to protect the "dying breed" of fast bowlers. Donald said bowlers must be allowed to "prepare" the ball -- ball-tampering, in other words -- to redress the balance between bat and ball to protect the fast bowlers from increasingly lifeless pitches.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - England team director Andy Flower feels that his team could win the Ashes even without Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff even as speculation mounted over the pair's fitness for the rest of the series against Australia. Both players will be assessed by medical staff this week - Pietersen has Achilles tendon trouble, Flintoff a sore right knee - as England prepare for next week's third Test at Edgbaston.

July 13th, 2009 LONDON - Former Australian spin wizard Shane Warne feels that charismatic England batsman Kevin Pietersen should learn to put the team first, not himself. Pietersen has come under heavy criticism for playing reckless strokes in the first drawn Ashes Test in Cardiff that almost put England on the verge of a loss.

July 12th, 2009 CARDIFF - Kevin Pietersen has told his shell-shocked England team-mates they must stand up and be counted today to prove they can handle an intense summer of Aussie pressure. "We've put ourselves under a hell of a lot of pressure and it's up to us to stand up and be counted now," News of The World quoted Pietersen, as saying.

July 12th, 2009 CARDIFF - England batsman Kevin Pietersen and Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson were involved in a heated argument before the start of the final day's play in the first Ashes Test here Sunday. The tiff took place when Pietersen struck a ball that landed where the Australian players were warming up and missed Johnson narrowly.

July 4th, 2009 WORCESTER - A majority of the players contracted to Cricket Australia have described England's Kevin Pietersen as the best batsman in the world outside Australia. Pietersen, with 50 percent of the vote, was by far the most popular choice, reports The Age.

July 1st, 2009 Gros Islet (St. Lucia),J - Ahead of the third one-day international against the West Indies Friday, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his batsmen need to be cautious in handling new-ball bowlers Ravi Rampaul and Jerome Taylor who scripted the visitors downfall in the second ODI.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - England batsman Kevin Pietersen has said that there is a good chance that Australia's batters will come up against reverse swing during the Ashes series. The English seamers turned Australian batsmen's heads to mush and legs to lead in their shock 2-1 series win in 2005.

June 26th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson has promised to maintain his newfound aggression and will be aiming for the badge just above the ribcage England batsman Kevin Pietersen. Johnson's aggression grew with his career-defining performances against South Africa last summer, when he twice broke the hand of Proteas captain Graeme Smith and also wounded Jacques Kallis.

June 24th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Pakistan speedster Umar Gul has said that reverse swing is an 'art' and critised the foreign teams, who had leveled ball tampering charges on their Asian counterparts. Gul said western teams lacked skill and ability to reverse swing the cricket ball, and that is why they always accused Asian fast bowlers of foulplay.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen is impressed by the hitting prowess of Yuvraj Singh and Chris Gayle, whom he has nominated as some of his most feared opponents. Pietersen reckons Windies captain Gayle is one of the most dangerous Twenty20 stars in the world, and adds Andrew Symonds and Brett Lee to that list, as well as fast bowlers Fidel Edwards and Dale Steyn.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - After a horrendous run in the recently concluded Indian Premier League (IPL), England batsman Kevin Pietersen has admitted that he is not as good in the Twenty 20 format of the game as he is in the other two versions. "I'm not very good at Twenty20 cricket, am I?" The Mirror quoted Pietersen, as saying.