Kevin Pietersen was set to meet with England coach Andy Flower on Saturday, the BBC and British media reported, in a bid to resolve his international future.
The South Africa-born batsman has been exiled from the England team since the drawn second Test against the Proteas in Leeds, where he made a brilliant 149, after it emerged he'd sent "provocative" text messages to opposition players.
Some of these were alleged to be critical of Andrew Strauss, the then England Test captain, who retired from all cricket on Wednesday.
England captain in Test cricket, Andrew Strauss, is set to quit from the top job after his side suffered a 0-2 loss against South Africa and lost their top spot in ICC Test rankings, according to reports.
The English media on Tuesday speculated that not only Strauss can resign as England captain, but also quit international cricket.
The Mail said in its report that Strauss has recently returned from a family holiday in Spain, and it is reckoned that the 35-year-old has decided to hang up his boots.
Yohan Blake rings the bell at Lord's start of the final Test between England and South Africa. On the TV reports Blake is the first non-cricketer to ring the bell at Lord's. But Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake is also a cricketer, played a Twenty20 match for Kingston Cricket Club in the Jamaican league prior to the Olympics and claimed an astonishing 4-10.Sprint sensation Yohan Blake has been approached to play in the KFC T20 Big Bash League and Sydney Sixers
Kevin Pietersen has apologised to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for text messages sent to South African players during the drawn second Test at Headingley, it has been reported.
Last weekend, Pietersen was dramatically dropped from England's squad for this week's third and final Test at Lord's, despite scoring a superb 149 at Headingley, after failing to reveal the contents of those text messages.
Former cricketers from around the world have condemned England and Wales Cricket Board’s move to drop veteran batsman Kevin Pietersen for the third and final Test against South Africa, calling it a “shame” for English cricket as well as world cricket.
Kevin Pietersen didn't ruled that next test match against South Africa could be his last International for England "I can't rule out that my next Test may be my last," he said after winning the man of the match award in the drawn second Test at Headingley after a superb innings of 149, which he followed up by taking three wickets.
Pietersen's future was a major issue before the series against the Proteas began.
Former South African fast bowling great Allan Donald compared Kevin Pietersen to West Indian legend Brian Lara after the England batsman hit his team back into the game with a spectacular century on the third day of the second Test at Headingley on Saturday.
Pietersen launched a savage assault after tea, hitting 149 not out as England reached 351 for five at the close, 68 behind South Africa's first innings total of 419.
South African captain Graeme Smith on Wednesday said the current Proteas team were the best group of men he had been involved with and were determined to become the best Test team in the world.
“I’m not going to try to be nice about it, we are training every day to try to be that team,” Smith said on the eve of the second Test against England at Headingley.
“We need to walk that walk and go out to the middle and win those games to prove that to people.
England coach Andy Flower said on Tuesday he was confident England could come back strongly in the second Test against South Africa at Headingley after their innings defeat in the first Test at the Oval last week.
“They outplayed us,” said Flower about the South African performance, which saw them make 637 for two declared in their only innings, inspired by an unbeaten triple century from Hashim Amla.
South African all-rounder Albie Morkel was on Tuesday ruled out of the second Test against England at Headingley because of an ankle injury.
South Africa’s vice captain A B de Villiers, on Saturday warned his side against complacency ahead of the second Test against England, commencing at Leeds, Headingley, on Thursday, August 2, 2012.
While speaking to media after the drawn two-day tour match against county side Worcestershire, de Villiers urged his teammates to put emphasis on the big moments of the game.
England cricketers playing in the County Championship point towards an unchanged side for next week’s second Test match against South Africa at Headingley.
The pre-series hype surrounded the battle between the two best pace attacks in the world, but it was South Africa”s top-order batsmen who dominated at the Oval as England pacers managed to take only two wickets.
South Africa have given the clearest indication yet that Jacques Kallis will form part of their World Twenty20 plans by resting him for the ODI series against England. Kallis has not played T20I cricket for South Africa since the 2010 World Twenty20, apart from a one-off game against India in his honour in March, but was named in a 30-man provisional squad for Sri Lanka last week.
Geoffrey Boycott has criticised England's batsmen after their first Test defeat to South Africa, saying they forgot about defence in the pursuit of their ambition to score runs.
To save the match, England needed to bat out the final day at The Oval on Monday to force a draw. However the visitors' bowling attack led by Dale Steyn (5-56) steamrolled them to win by an innings and 12 runs.
South Africa beat England by an innings and 12 runs in the first test of three match series at Kennington Oval, London.
England battled hard on the final morning against South Africa as they tried to salvage a draw but Dale Steyn and company raffle England low order in no time.
Hashim Amla became the first South African to score a triple hundred in test cricket. He achieved this feat against England in their first match of the 3 match series played at the Oval.This was the first triple century in England since Gooch's 333 in 1990.
England will start defending their ranking as the top Test team in the world when they come up against a strong South African side in the first of three Test matches at the Oval on Thursday. The pre-match build-up has concentrated on two outstanding fast bowling attacks but, as England fast bowler James Anderson and South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis pointed out on Tuesday, the bowlers will have to get past some outstanding batsmen.
