Kevin Pietersen is not a man whom you would expect to be brimming with confidence right now; he has seemed out of form, low in spirits, apparently out of love with cricket, and without a test century since way back in March 2009. However, the player has now claimed that his spell in South Africa has given him the opportunity to reclaim the confidence that he will need if he is to show his class in the upcoming Ashes series against an Australian side which is going to be looking to win back the urn that the players let slip in 2008.
With the Australian bowling attack being tipped to be stronger than the English one, the English batsmen such as Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen will need to avoid a top order collapse if the English team is going to stand a chance of allowing its bowlers to get used to wickets that English bowlers have rarely performed well on.
However, with the England team having looked to use a variety of techniques to boost their chances of overcoming the current Ashes betting odds that have them down has underdogs, Pietersen may have been the man to come up with the best solution to his own problems by returning to his homeland for a short while.
If this move has indeed proved successful and the player has found a way to overcome the blues he had been left facing, then the England team may well find itself ending the series with people left scratching their heads and wondering why they came into the Ashes 2010 series with such low expectations of the team, leaving egg on the faces of many experts in the process.
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