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England reject Pietersen gets Surrey chance
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Axed England batsman Kevin Pietersen has agreed a deal to play for Surrey in this year’s English county season having been jettisoned from the national team set-up for good.
The 33-year-old has negotiated the end of his central England contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board and will now spend part of the English summer season turning out for the county he has sporadically represented since 2010.
“Once the IPL (Indian Premier League) and his IPL commitments are over he is available for Surrey,” Surrey Director of Cricket Alec Stewart told the county’s You Tube channel on Monday. “That’s predominantly a Twenty20 agreement but that is not to say we won’t see him in the four-day game or the 50-over game.”
Pietersen, cast away by England last week after its 0-5 Ashes whitewash in Australia because of his perceived lack of team spirit, will mainly feature in the T20 Blast set from May to July.
“I’m absolutely delighted to have agreed terms with Surrey and am thoroughly looking forward to playing my cricket for the club this summer,” Pietersen said in a club statement.
“I’ve had some of my best moments in cricket at The Oval and I’m really excited at the prospect of getting back out there playing in what will hopefully be a brilliant summer for us all at Surrey,” added Pietersen, whose maiden test century of 158 against Australia that secured England’s 2005 Ashes win was made at The Oval.
Pietersen bowed out as England’s record scorer across all formats of the game, with 13,797 runs. However, his strong personality made him a divisive figure in the dressing room.
He fell out with two head coaches in Peter Moores and Andy Flower and was also briefly dropped in 2012 after it emerged he’d sent text messages criticizing then England captain Andrew Strauss to South African players.
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