We have players who can fill Pietersen’s boots - Paul Collingwood
Former T20 captain of England http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 two years ago. The Natal-born top-order batsman had finished the 2010 edition as the Player of the Tournament.
The Stuart Broad-led team would be without likes of Pietersen when they will start their title defence against Afghanistan on Friday, September 21, as KP is not part of the 15-man touring party. He was overlooked for the mega event following his retirement from limited overs cricket in May this year. Though the veteran top-order batsman came out of ODI and T20 retirement earlier last month, but by that time his relations with the England and Wales Cricket Board had deteriorated further, courtesy the “Text controversy”.
Whilst many are thinking that the English team would miss the experience of veteran batsman in the World Cup, Collingwood has claimed they have batsmen who can fill KP’s boots in the T20 extravaganza.
"People will say Pietersen will be a huge loss but we’ve other guys who can fill his boots," said the T20 World Cup-winning captain of England.
"Look at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eoin-Joseph-Gerard-Morgan-c56032 and the experience he has in IPL, the way he finishes games. Kieswetter, Lumb and Wright all have better skills than they had two years ago, while Bairstow and Buttler have been practising Twenty20 cricket from a very early age.”
"They can hit the ball 360 degrees with a lot of power. If you look at our batting, it's incredible how much power and unorthodoxy it has. I don't think we'll miss KP as much as people might think," the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 all-rounder added further.
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Broad and men have won their both warm-up matches against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Sunday.
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