Kevin Pietersen - The most romantic innings ever played (Part 3)
Much like Botham and Freddie before him, he is that lightning rod that illuminates the English camp, which is why he is respected and valued behind the walls of the dressing room.
The preparations in the Australian camp all revolved around this one man, they all looked to target him. He was the reason they decided to get in Xavier Doherty, they wanted to expose his vulnerable side. They wanted to open the fissures in his career which
had begun to crack wide open. He was seen as a threat by the Kangaroos to the status quo. They recognized him as one of their most formidable enemies and wanted to crush him. This attention allowed players like Alastair Cook and Bell to creep in from the cracks
that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 had so easily ignored. However, his thirst for runs was unquenched and his slight glimpse of form was witnessed in the first innings at Gabba where he seemed threatening for the small time he stayed on the crease.
He had shown sparks of what truly lay beneath, a monster lurking within waiting to unleash itself. He did that in the most spectacular fashion as he crushed the Punters, with their attempt to mark him being one of the most futile ones since the Belgian midfield
had attempted to mark Maradona in the 1986 football (soccer) World Cup.
Pressure seems to bring out the best in this man, he thrives under pressure. He has admitted that the enormity of the situation always tends to bring out the beast within him. This time he was under the rader since he wasn’t as prepared as his side would
have ideally wanted him to be. His unsuccessful stint against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 had left its mark on him, as he failed to fire in any of the Tests.
He was thirsty to find his lost rhythm and form. "I found it more tiring waiting to bat the other day than batting today," said Pietersen. "You could probably see by the way I started... I was trying to get to fifty in five balls. But it was brilliant to
watch, it's brilliant to see and long may it continue for all of our batters to be in nick, because we will win a lot of Test matches if our batters are in good nick like this."
Despite his critics, Kevin Pietersen has once again come out on top. He has risen against the pressure building up against him, filling the fissures that were threatening his career. Kevin Pietersen was back to his best. However, his innings was not the
most romantic finish. He finished with that tinge of romanticism as he took the ball and bowled out Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 during the fading hours of the day. It was as if the gods of cricket had conspired with nature to dedicate this to his spectacular performance.
It was the cherry on top, the perfect finish, the sort he had yearned for.
"The key to what I've done is the little things that I've worked on," he said. "When you are batting for that amount of time you find a pace where you go through the gears to fifth, then back down to third and if needs be drop back into first and then go
back up. It's something I've worked hard on and it's what the team needs and that's how we play it, we're not looking at two or three sessions ahead, we are looking at ten minutes, ten run partnerships, hours and keeping things simple."
Kevin Pietersen managed to make a simple game of cricket truly extraordinary, something sublime and something romantic, like a dream out of the 1930s.
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