It may have only come against Oxford University, but Kevin Pietersen’s 170 runs from just 149 balls for Surrey showed that he’s still capable of being top of the class.
A lad called Kevin just scored a hundred…
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) April 12, 2015
KP gave the Oxford students a lesson as he smashed his first century since the 2013 Ashes season.
The impressive innings also saw him put a dent in a nearby parked Peugeot 207 and knock one spectator off his chair as he hit consecutive sixes.
A hero of the 2005 Ashes series, some are even suggesting that such a performance might just set the wheels in motion for an improbable return to the national team.
Despite well documented past troubles, Pietersen also said that Colin Graves, the new Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has told him that he can battle for an England return safe in the knowledge that this is very much a fresh start.
“He has told me he wants the best players playing for England and that there is a clean slate,” Pietersen said.
Runs in a game against a university side by no means suggest that Pietersen is banging on the selectors’ door – but if he is to one day make a return for England, this might just have been the starting point.
