Pietersen’s eyes roll slightly when he is asked about Ben Stokes’ recent comments comparing Harry Brook’s talents to his.<\/p>\n
Pietersen, like Brook, was a maverick \u2013 a batter capable of incredible highs. Those highs mean the lows come with a disproportionate level of criticism.<\/p>\n
“Where I can help him is playing situations, because there was a lot of method in my madness,” Pietersen says.<\/p>\n
“Yes, occasionally, I got out to reckless shots and crazy shots in the ’80s and ’90s but there was a lot of structure to the way that I batted.<\/p>\n
“I’ve still got notes on my phone on how I played in T20 cricket, one-day cricket, Test match cricket, and about hitting straight back at the stumps, and the techniques, and how I did it, and don’t play certain shots.<\/p>\n
“That all-round structure is something I could potentially help him with because he’s so flipping good.<\/p>\n
“It’s actually frightening how good he is and how good he can be.”<\/p>\n
And Pietersen says he will not limit himself to working purely on white-ball cricket.<\/p>\n
He has already spoken to new Test coach Stephen Fleming about how he can help the Test batters during his time with the white-ball squads.<\/p>\n
Though he said he would not have time for a full-time role, he suggested he is open to working with the Test side before next summer’s home Ashes series.<\/p>\n
“I have got a pretty mad schedule,” he says. “I wouldn’t say no.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that necessarily means I need to be in a dressing room.<\/p>\n
“There is a lot of time in the lead up to an Ashes series and a tour of South Africa, when I will be with the Test batters. <\/p>\n
“There are conversations I can have there.”<\/p>\n
Who knows how long this will last. England may as well make the most of this second chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pietersen’s eyes roll slightly when he is asked about Ben Stokes’ recent comments comparing Harry Brook’s talents to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-904916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}