Kevin Pietersen’s limited-overs return still under clouds – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362 wants him to be available for all limited-overs matches for the country.
The hard-hitting batsman announced his retirement from the shorter formats of the game earlier this year as the lanky cricketer maintains that he cannot cope with the demands of the current international schedule.
Being one of the modern-day greats, it was widely expected that the Poms will miss his services in the coloured kits. However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in a comprehensive manner and are still unbeaten in the 50-overs format
since KP’s retirement.
Last week, the South Africa born cricketer expressed his desire to return to the limited-over versions, if the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) can give him some flexibility and allow him to pick and chose the matches he wants to play.
The team’s director however, does not want to make individuals more important than the side and expressed that ECB has to look after England’s long term benefit.
"The intent behind it is that we are serving English cricket in its entirety. We have to take personalities out of the equation," Flower said. "The ECB are determined to protect all three formats of the game and part of that is not setting a precedent of
allowing players to retire from one-day cricket alone."
English selectors are likely to announce the preliminary squad of 30 for the ICC World T20 2012 this week and they would have loved to have the services of the 32-year-old batsman, who was the Player of the Tournament in the previous edition of the mega
event, which was held in 2010 in the Caribbean.
With the controversy gaining more importance in the media, Flower does not want to be distracted from the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, which will determine the number one ranked Test team of the world.
"Situations like these make it a little more complicated. It doesn't mean that they can't work but it does make it a little more complicated. And I tell you one thing, none of us can afford for these types of issues to be distractions," the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045
captain added.
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