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Kevin looks to double act

SPORTINGLIFE, undated
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is excited by the prospect of forming a destructive duo with Kevin Pietersen this summer following the England new boy's ascent in South Africa.
While Pietersen set a new English record 69-ball one-day hundred on Wednesday, his fellow big hitter Flintoff was back home recovering from ankle surgery.
When it became apparent that all-rounder Flintoff required an operation to solve his bone spur discomfort, Pietersen was lined up for his role.
But the 24-year-old son of a British mother has made such an explosive start to his international career, culminating in his whirlwind effort in the seven-run floodlit defeat by the South Africans in East London, that the two will now conceivably play together this summer.
"I got a text message from Freddie the other day saying he was looking forward to doing some damage together, which sounds pretty cool to me," said Pietersen.
"I can't wait to stand at the other end and watch him bang it; he is a great player who hits the ball a lot
harder and longer than I do."
Yet Pietersen has a superior strike rate in the infancy of his career than the 92.95 Flintoff has managed over 71 innings.
His latest contribution actually threatened to turn a contest dominated for its entirety by the home side, only failing at the last, moments before he celebrated crunching the six runs he needed for three figures over the rope at mid-wicket.
"It would have been a great effort if we had won the game but to lose and go 3-1 down was not the best way to get a hundred and a recordbreaking hundred," said Pietersen, who grew up here and schooled in Pietermaritzburg 45 minutes up the road, after the defeat.
"We had lost so the emotions had gone but Darren Gough walked down the wicket and said 'right, here's an opportunity to get a hundred'.
"I told him I was not really bothered whether I got it or not, I was not too perturbed but Andre Nel gave me a juicy full toss which I dispatched with a broken bat.
"I was happy personally but it was overtaken by the loss really: I never gave up until that last ball, even in the last over I backed myself to hit three sixes and someone else to chip in."
Pietersen does not lack confi-
dence, nor does he back down in duels; unruffled by opponents' eyeballing and crowd cackling alike, he has piled up 338 runs in five innings this series.
His latest effort left its mark physically, his sore left hamstring will be strapped up as will the two bats which were cracked by aggressive hitting.
He is unsure what kind of greeting to expect at Centurion as England attempt to finish on a winning note but will not mind more hostility.
"It definitely makes me play better," Pietersen said. "I love a challenge and to hear people booing me, going ballistic gets me going and makes me hungry for success.
"They have their points of view but I am very happy with what I do. Perhaps I need to get these crowds over in England!
"I am fulfilling a dream, I love playing cricket for England and succeeding for England.
"I am as happy as anything to be wearing the three lions."
His performances here could go a long way to ensuring he wears them on his chest in Test cricket as well before too long.
After all he averages more than 50 in four seasons of first-class cricket with Nottinghamshire, accumulating his runs in a contrasting style to his shuffle and shovel method which has served him so well here.
But he insisted: "All I can concentrate on is playing well here and let the selectors decide what happens from there.
"In four-day cricket I am a lot more patient when I am batting. People have said I am using my wrists too much but that is all in order to get balls going through areas I want to get runs.
"In one-day cricket I need to get a run-a-ball and you cannot play methodically, picking out fielders at extra cover.
"If I can get a ball from here to there to get England another run that is all I am interested in.”