A Special Feature on Kevin Pietersen by Karthik Narayan

Wide on the horizon, as anxious eyes and ears watched and listened, the footsteps of a blue-uniform clad cricketer treading on the paths taken by many a youth, a new cricketer bearing the name of Kevin Pieterson on his back walked into the stadium, his bat in his hands like a bludgeon.

This young man carried with him contemporariness of an exemplar, a superstar-ish feature of a plunderer in the mould of a great emperor in the cricket field. And yet, he was yet to be tested in the big stage – thus he had set foot on a world stage where the winner takes all and the loser disappears without a trace! Pieterson was born in Pietermaritzburg, the same place as the legendary Jonty Rhodes in 1980. Having played for Natal in his early days, the case of racism saw him moving to England along with his mother to find safer havens to practice his hard hitting. Now South Africa shall be sore enough to realize what they missed. Perhaps, for South Africa, after a sound thrashing in the test series, adding fuel to the fire might have been Pieterson slamming their bowlers to all corners of the park. Read more....

Statistics of Kevin Pietersen's Career :