It is "definitely time to accept" Kevin Pietersen's achievements in
an England shirt, says the team's director of cricket Andrew Strauss. South-African born Pietersen, 37, suggested an end to his playing career by tweeting "boots up" last week Ferragamo Belt For Women. Strauss
told BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers & Vaughan Show there were
"differences" between them but called his former team-mate a
"magnificent" player. "It is the time to accept what he did in an England shirt," he said. "He was a magnificent player, the best England player I played with and an unbelievable talent. "We have to remember the special days and he should be happy and comfortable with what he has achieved." Listen to the full Tuffers & Vaughan podcast Pietersen is England's second-highest run scorer across all formats, behind Alastair Cook Hermes Belts For Sale. The
former Nottinghamshire, Hampshire and Surrey batsman made a total of
13,779 runs for England in Test, one-day and Twenty 20 international
matches between 2004 and 2014.
However, his career was surrounded by controversy; he lasted five
months as England captain before resigning in January 2009, following a
rift with coach Peter Moores. He was dropped for the third Test
against South Africa in 2012 after reports he sent derogatory text
messages about his team-mates - including then-captain Strauss - to
South Africa players Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers. In February 2014, he was sacked by England following a 5-0 whitewash Replica Ferragamo Belts in Australia, and did not play international cricket again. However,
Strauss had to apologise later that year after he made an offensive
remark about Pietersen during a live broadcast on Sky Sports. 'He needed loving' - analysis Michael Vaughan, who captained Pietersen with England: Can
you deliver under the ultimate pressure, against Australia's Glenn
McGrath and Shane Warne? We told him to go and play his way. He hit the
ball flying over McGrath's head. Then against Sri Lanka's Muttiah
Muralitharan, he reverse swept him for six on his first ball. I thought:
'We have a player here who can turn the game on its head by attacking
the world's top bowlers.' I had never seen that from an England player. He needed loving and an arm round his shoulder. As much as you see the ego Cheap Hermes Belts,
the exterior of aggression and this flamboyant character, if you did
not love him, he had did not respond well to the finger being pointed at
him. I looked at him and thought: 'Just play aggressively.' The
rest of us had to play our games around him. He had the ability to win a
game of Test match cricket in the space of three hours.
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