Kevin Pietersen to say goodbye to English cricket

Kevin Pietersen has chosen to stop English cricket toward the finish of the season. The ostentatious batsman will turn up for Surrey in the up and coming NatWest T20 Blast, which will be his last focused competition in England.

The 36-year-old additionally declared that he won't be accessible for the 2018 Indian Premier League (IPL) as it comes toward the finish of his bustling timetable. The explanation behind Pietersen's inaccessibility for both stretches is that he's bustling building another home close Kruger National Park and needs to be more required in untamed life preservation programs. "I figure this will be my last season playing in England. One year from now I am building a house and the entire of the English summer I will be at my home in South Africa so I won't be back in England," Pietersen said on Monday (June 19). "My protection work is when I ought to be playing here and that work is more imperative to me. "I cherish Surrey. When they came to me with the offer of playing there rather than the Caribbean I was upbeat. Surrey have been so great to me. When I backpedal there preparing in two or three weeks, it will be awesome. I can hardly wait," he included.

Notwithstanding, Pietersen will keep playing establishment cricket far and wide. Despite everything he has a two-year contract with Big Bash group Melbourne Stars, which he expects to finish. The new South African establishment cricket, propelled in London after the culmination of the ICC Champions Trophy as Global T20 League, named Pietersen as one of the marquee remote players. "I am as yet playing a portion of the best cricket of my vocation," he said. "I am 36 and I am fitter than I even was the point at which I was playing for England. For whatever length of time that I am fit and getting a charge out of batting I will play on."

Pietersen was likewise one of the primary England players to participate in the IPL, however he's concluded that he won't be accessible for the sale one year from now. He additionally quit the 2017 closeout list, refering to a bustling winter as an explanation behind not entering. "I'm finished playing (in the IPL), yet I can commentate," he proceeded. "The motivation behind why I commentate is I go for one week, get back home for two weeks, at that point I return for a week and home for two weeks. When you're a player, you're there the entire time, you're all over. I can't do that."