ENGLAND BANISHED CRICKTER, Kevin Pieteren

The South African Born, English cricketer says bye to his cricketing career. The luminary hinted his
retirement by his tweet on Friday after Quetta Gladiators lost match against Islamabad United by 6
wickets, (Place the tweet here) a day later KP confirmed it by stating that he wants to use his remaining
energy on saving the endangered rhinos from extinction. The significance of KP can be understood by
Harsha’s statement: “KP was born for big stage… player who defined his generation”. But this big stage
layer saw abundant ebbs and flows in his life and those incidents revolved his life: from urinating the
LORD’s pitch to donating his life for rhinos shows his personality’s transition. (Funky look pictures)

The 37 year old veteran cricketer also holds the prestige of being second highest run-scorer for England
across all the formats following Alastair Cook. The extrovert and flamboyant player was sacked after
England’s disastrous loss against the 2013-14 Ashes series. Since then he couldn’t represent England
again. However, the legend pursued his interest by playing for County Cricket and T20 leagues across the
globe (Big Bash, CPL, IPL, and PSL). The unsung hero never let any huddle mute his passion for cricket. KP
indeed defines the cricket of his era, from playing the innovative helicopter short in BBL (link to the
video: if you want to add in the article (https://youtu.be/PtJiwaOtIqc) to accepting the blind folded 6
challenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVFF7vRG7w). He was exceptionally maverick and
challenged himself throughout his career.

Andre Strauss recently praised the career of his teammate by saying:

'He was a magnificent player and for me he was the best England player that I played with…. We have a
player here who can turn the game on its head by attacking the world's top bowlers.' Staruss while
praising the talent of KP said he was the person who used to hit the ball over the head of McGrath,
reverse swept Murlitaharan for six of the first ball.

Indeed KP was amongst the stars of his time, his resilience can be referred to the 2012 match where
South Africa totaled up to 419 in an inning and in return England were 85-2 when KP walked in, KP took
the responsibility and continued with his phenomenal batting, scoring 149 with England ending up at
425. In the same year KP scored an amazing 186 runs in innings on the spinning tracks of Mumbai and
formed 206 runs partnership with Alastair Cook. During the span of 2011-12 he was at his peak He
scored almost 3000 runs in those 2 years. But as 2014 turned on the calendar, he went off the team. He
was sacked and unfortunately never returned to the national team.