KEVIN PIETERSEN

England's Kevin Pietersen will watch the tour Twenty20 game against South Africa A from his Johannesburg hotel room. Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

England begin their international programme in South Africa here with one interested viewer turning on his television 250 miles away in Johannesburg.
While Kevin Pietersen settles into his hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, England will be taking the field in Bloemfontein against South Africa A, to warm up for the weekend's two Twenty20 internationals.
England have fared well without their one world-class batsman so far on tour, beating two provincial sides in emphatic style in the first week, but this evening the stakes get a little higher. The young South Africa side includes players of the quality of Morne Morkel and will give England their best guide yet as to how they are developing under Andrew Strauss and the team director, Andy Flower.
Strauss will be missing on Tuesday night, the selectors having decided that Paul Collingwood should continue as the 20-over captain, but his impact on the team will not go missing according to Graeme Swann.
"Straussy said that on nearly every tour he has been on, traditionally England have been terrible in these warm up games and don't get anything like the momentum they need going into the series, so he has put a lot of emphasis on us treating all these games like full internationals and I think we have. We are playing an exciting brand of cricket which we haven't done for a while," said Swann.