‘We mean business this time’, says Kevin Pietersen

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 13th, 2009 SYDNEY - England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen will miss the entire one-day series against Australia, after he suffered an infection of the scar tissue following an operation to the Achilles that was injured during the second Test at Lord's. The England cricket board's medical team issued a statement on Pietersen's health condition on Wednesday.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Kevin Pietersen's chances of returning to the England side suffered a blow due to an infection following his Achilles heel surgery last month. Pietersen was clearly not fit during England's victory over Australia at Lord's in the ongoing Ashes series last month.

July 31st, 2009 LONDON - Injured England batsman Kevin Pietersen has described his current spell on the sidelines as the middle marker in his playing career, and said that he is just taking a break to get fully fit for the next stage. The 29 year-old, who had a surgery on his Achilles tendon, also rubbished reports of following Andrew Flintoff into Test cricket retirement and came to Edgbaston to cheer his team-mates.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has denied that Kevin Pietersen aggravated his achilles injury by flouting the training programme during the Indian Premier League in April. Evan Speechly, the Bangalore IPL team's assistant coach and physiotherapist, had Friday claimed that Pietersen, who has been ruled out of the rest of the ongoing Ashes Test series, had gone on a training run in Durban.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - The England and Wales Cricket Board has denied reports that their star batsman Kevin Pietersen had aggravated his achilles injury while playing for Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League in South Africa earlier this year. The ECB also denied that they had prescribed any training programme for Pietersen, as alleged by Bangalore Royal Challengers assistant coach and physiotherapist Evan Speechly.

July 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The England team's middle order has become a bit vulnerable and pressure has increased on other players to perform after star batsman Kevin Pietersen was ruled out of the Ashes series due to injury. Pietersen, who had been troubled by the injury for the past six months, had surgery on Wednesday after seeing a specialist from Sweden and will be out of cricket for at least six weeks.

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 22nd, 2009 LONDON - England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen Wednesday predicted the death of Test cricket in a decade. "A few months ago I was so clear in my thoughts that nothing would affect Tests, but then you see what certain players are saying in the media and what kind of players are retiring to continue with the Twenty20 format as well as the riches of Twenty20 cricket," the Daily Telegraph quoted Pietersen as saying.

July 13th, 2009 LONDON - The English media lavished praise on the team's tailenders for showing resilience in snatching a draw in the first Test against Australia, and aimed their brickbats at star batsman Kevin Pietersen. The last pair of James Anderson and Monty Panesar were praised for their gritty 40-minute stay at Sophia Gardens during a 69-ball stand that took England to safety Sunday.

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.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - England batsman Kevin Pietersen, who has been struggling with an achilles injury, might not play in all the Ashes Tests this summer. The star batsman said the problem could recur at any time.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - England's best batsman Kevin Pietersen no longer sees Twenty20 cricket as a silly aspect of the sport, adding that his view changed during the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in 2007. The Independent quoted the Indian Premier League's highest paid player as saying: "During that World Cup, my view changed.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - With just five days left for the start of the Twenty20 World Cup, Indian Premier League's (IPL) most expensive player and former England captain Kevin Pietersen admitted that he is not a good at Twenty20 cricket. In an interview to British tabloid Mirror, Pietersen said: "I'm not very good at Twenty20 cricket, am I?" Pietersen, who was bought by liquor baron Vijay Mallya's Bangalore Royal Challengers for a record $1.55 million, failed to live up to his top billing in the IPL.

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.