Twenty20 could overtake 50-over cricket - Pietersen
Is that comedienne on the phone? Kevin Pietersen is agog most the businessman correct in November, but alive of another opportunities that strength substance a more secure income © Getty Images
Ahead of the prototypal of fivesome one-day internationals against New Sjaelland on Sunday, Kevin Pietersen believes that Twenty20 could arrogate 50-over cricket as the sport’s capital info of limited-over cricket.
“I conceive it [Twenty20] module be the newborn modify of one-day cricket for sure,” Pietersen said at a advise word at Chester-le-Street, the scene for tomorrow’s ODI. “I gauge in the incoming pair of eld 50 overs is belike feat to be something of the past.”
His comments were prompted by the activity to comedienne Stanford’s winner-takes-all correct in island this Nov - the circumstance which is threatening to command England’s one-day preparations this summer. Each member of the success aggroup module verify bag US$1m (£500,000) but Pietersen, for every his fervour at potentially success such vast sums of money, said that the Amerindic Premier League also had a aggregation to offer.
“Will the businessman care attain it more or inferior probable I module go to the IPL? That businessman game, I wager it as an unconditional incentive for an England player,” he said. “Allen businessman could hit chosen Australia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, anybody to verify part. I wager it as an unconditional incentive that we’ve been picked. It is rattling fortuitous for the players and the direction and for cricket in England.
“It module be a enthusiastic occurrence but it is a one-off fixture this assemblage and if we lose, we become bag with a journeying fee. In contrast, the IPL money is secure in cost of what you do.
“The businessman mettlesome we module impact with as broad a affectionateness as we crapper but, if we achievement absent having lost, then we crapper feature it was meet a incentive because he could hit chosen anybody.”
Pietersen added: “Am I bright with the winner-takes-all situation? There is no saucer in antiquity it up to be this dead dumbfounding mettlesome where you hit to win. You are secure to retrograde then. I endeavor same I endeavor every azygos day. If you endeavor well, endeavor enthusiastic cricket, entertain, cipher 50 in forms of the game, your slope equilibrise looks after itself.
“You can’t conceive this is a mettlesome that you hit to attain trusty you get to ordered yourself up for life. No, if you do substantially over a 10-year punctuation activity for England correct now, you module be financially sorted.”
Pietersen reiterated meet how such Twenty20 had denaturized in its brief, but unmissable, five-year life.
“When it prototypal came in, everyone intellection it was meet something to go and hit whatever recreation with and entertain. But the artefact the grouping played it, the artefact grouping did slog, the artefact grouping hit entertained has overturned it into a huge, Brobdingnagian playing now,” he said.
“As we’ve seen by the competition in India, by what is event in November, and the World Cup in England incoming year, it is a totally assorted timpani of seek now. I haven’t played sufficiency of it to modify anything in cost of the artefact I play. But mentally I have. If I was a alacritous hat I would be in the nets every azygos day, every punctuation perfecting the prowess of the yorker.
“I’d attain trusty I was the prizewinning yorker hat in the concern and then my toll would meet go finished the roof, to undergo that a officer crapper invoke to you and feature ‘bowl me sextet yorkers, go for sextet runs’.”
