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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen is a cricket commentator, conservationist and former England international cricket player. He was 1980 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province, South Africa.  Kevin was born to An Afrikaner father and English mother.

Pietersen is married to the former liberty X singer Jessica Taylor. The couple married 2007 at St Andrew’s Church in Castle Combe.

 Kevin Pietersen is a right-handed batsman and sometime off spin bowler. He played in all three formats from England. Kevin made his first class debut for Natal and then moved to England.

He was offered a three contract to play for the county by Nottinghamshire coach Clive Rice. The Nottinghamshire coach had seen play in South Africa at school week. He made his first class in Nottinghamshire debut against the Loughborough.

Kevin Pietersen was then signed by the Melbourne stars in 2014-2015 big Bash League season with a contract for 2years. He played T20 cricket in the Caribbean Premier League. Kevin was signed for St Lucia Zouk’s for 2014 Caribbean Premier League. He also played for the rest of the world in the Bicentenary celebration match at lords.

1.Kevin Pietersen is an Advocate for the welfare and conservative endangered animals

Kevin is a prominent advocate for the welfare and conservative of endangered animals in  South Africa. He opened a Umganu lodge in 2018. It is luxury resort at the edge of Kruger National park.

The reserve serves as both a retreat center. Also as a means to foster greater awareness of endangered species in South Africa. He also established a Saving Our Rhinos Africa & India (SORAI). This ia an Austrian charity for supporting Rhinoceros conservations

He was featured in BBC Radio 5 Live in the Beast of Man podcast in 2019. The programme profiled his role in combating illegal poaching mostly that of rhinoceros.

2.Kevin Pietersen made his first class debut for Natal at young Age

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At the age of 17 years Kevin made his first class debut for Natal鈥檚 B team in 1997. He started his career as an off-spinner. Though he lacked bowling opportunities, he developed him as a hard hitting batsman.

Kevin played against Nasser Hussein鈥檚 England. He hit a brilliant knock of 61 runs off57 balls at the number 9 position. Pietersen had also bagged a four- wicket.

3.Pietersen is South African born England Star

He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His father was an African and mother was English. After Kevin making his first class debut in 1997. He moved to England 2000 and joined the Nottinghamshire, citing racial quota system in South Africa. It was as an hindrances to his progress as a cricketer.

4.He was the fastest to reach 1000 ODI runs and 2 ICC Awards

Pietersen sweeps Murali at Edgbaston photo by Matt

During his first tour to India Kevin had emerged as the leading run scorer even after missing match .The visitors losing the series1-5. This was after an ordinary test series.

Throughout the course of the series Kevin Pietersen had equaled West Indian legend Sir Vivian Richard record. That was being the fastest to reach 1000ODI runs and took 21 innings.

In the 2005 season he gained several awards for his performances. Kevin named both the ICC ODI player of the year. He also became the Emerging player of the year in the2005.

5.Kevin Pietersen is considered as a greatest batsman

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He was chosen to opt out of the IPL to script his comeback to the English team which means he is serious about getting back. As per his greatness, his Test record, especially the Test batting average and centuries, speaks for itself. In 104 Tests, the South African-born batsman has scored 8181 runs at 47.28 with 23 centuries. Hence making him one of England’s greatest-ever batsmen.

6.He took part in the Duleep trophy in 2003-2004

Pietersen took part in the Duleep trophy in2003 -2004 that were held in India  He played for England A . His merciless devastation of a South Zone attack consisting of  sS.Sreesanth, Sunil Joshi and Ramakrishnan Ramkumar at Gurgoan made senior journalist Vijay Lokapally call him the, 鈥渂est batsman of that tournament.鈥�

7. Pietersen played cricket for England for only 9 years

He played cricket for England for 9years from 2005-2014. He is remembered  as one of the England best ever. Since in those 9 year Kevin Pietersen made a impact.

He played 104 Test Matches for England in which he scored 8181 runs at an average of 47.28 with 23 Test hundreds with a highest score of 227. Kevin Pietersen also played 136 ODIs for England and he got 4440 runs at an average of 40.73 with 9 ODI Hundreds with a highest score of 130.

Kevin had the perfect ashe debut at the Lord鈥檚 making 57 and 64 innings. Thus he became the 3^rd England to hit 50 scores in his first2 test innings at Lord鈥檚.

8. He became the second English batter  in the 2005 Ashes series

Pietersen batting at Trent Bridge photo by Nic Redhead

Pietersen made his Test debut against Australia at Lord鈥檚 in 2005, where he made his way into the history books by hitting back-to-back half-centuries: 8th Englishman to hit consecutive fifties in a Test match and 4th debutant to become the highest scorer in both the innings of a Test for England.

He scored his first Test hundred in the final Test match of the series, where his 158 helped England reclaim the Ashes after having won it previously way back in 1986. After these 3 hundreds he entered the Top 10 batters rankings in Test cricket. Hence becoming the second batter.

9. Kevin Pietersen became a coach/ captain

He was the captain of England test and ODI teams from 2008-2009. Though he resigned just after three test and nine ODIs. This was due to the dispute with England coach Peter Moores who was also sacked the same day.

10. He was the first England player of the tournament award in ICC tournament

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 He was the hero of the winning 2010 T20 World Cup winning campaign for England when he made 248 runs at a monster average of 62. Hence  becoming the first England player to win a player-of-the-tournament award in an ICC tournament guiding England to their first ever ICC trophy.