http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kevin-Peter-Pietersen-c71169 as a player but not as a Captain
English fast bowler, James Anderson, believes that Kevin Pietersen is not ideally suited to captain the national side and it is in the best interest of England as well as Pietersen’s that he focuses on his performance as a middle-order batsmen.
Anderson himself was struggling with fitness issues since the first Test of the three-match series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, and he had to miss out on the Lords Test.
However, the spearhead of the English bowling attack is fit again and will play in the 3rd and the last Test, at Southampton.
The 28-year-old fast bowler said that Pietersen is a match-winner but his tenure of captaincy was not conductive for England due to his reservations regarding the former coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Moores-c81848.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lancashire-c806 cricketer believes that a pressure free Pietersen is invaluable for England and can be a threat for any side in the world.
"Having seen him before, during and after he did the job, I believe he is actually http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-Muchall-c1499 better suited to having a smaller but still important leadership role within the team, without the extra pressure of captaincy. His period in charge under the new coach
Peter Moores was not a great time for the team,” opined Anderson.
The South Africa-born Pietersen was appointed as the captain of the English team in 2008, but he could not retain the job for long because of clashes with the management.
Despite his differences with the management, Pietersen has been a permanent member of the English team in all formats of the game and his abilities as a world-class cricketer were never in doubt.
Having had to leave the English World Cup 2011 campaign due to his hernia issue, recently, the stylish batsman was out of form.
However, he scored a half-century for England in the second Test against Sri Lanka and Anderson feels that Kevin’s return to form is great for English cricket and their future endeavors, since Pietersen can single-handedly change the course of a match.
“Pietersen has been looking so good in the nets and he is so talented that we knew it was only a matter of time before he started scoring runs again, those runs still have to be scored and last week's effort will have done him and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 a lot of good,"
opined Anderson.
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