Kevin Pietersen did not often bowl, although he first came to English attention when he represented KwaZulu-Natal as an off-spinner on England’s 1999-2000 tour of South Africa, but he has delivered some bouncers at Joe Root.
Root in the course of his 150 at Old Trafford rose to second place in the all-time list of Test run-scorers. But this was not enough to impress Pietersen. Far from it. He declared, like a real old-timer, that batting was twice as hard back in his day.
“Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago!” Pietersen posted on X. “Probably twice as hard back then.”
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