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.

BRENDON MCULLUM

 

In 2003 he played in an exam series against England and scored that which was then his highest score, an innings of 96 at Lord's. His maiden Test century came a few months later while he scored 143 against Bangladesh.

He was selected inside the 20-man ICC World XI squad for your ICC Super Series in July 2005.

On 20 February 2007, he scored 86 not out as Nz continued is the first team to whitewash Australia in the 3 match ODI series since 1997. He struck a huge six off the first ball from the last over against Nathan Bracken to level the scores, before he finished it well which has a boundary.
 

On 5 April 2009, on day three with the third Test match during India's tour of the latest Zealand, he displayed an amazing level of alertness in the dismissal of Rahul Dravid. Dravid attempted a sweep shot off Daniel Vettori's bowling, but McCullum saw what Dravid was up to prior to the ball had even pitched and moved swiftly to his left . Ross Taylor initially slip did precisely the same. The ball came nicely off Dravid's bat, but flew straight into the hands of the waiting Brendon McCullum. A couple of balls earlier, McCullum tried the same thing, but he was really a little slow and Dravid's sweep was kept low. Although there is some discussion in connection with legality of McCullum's movement prior to ball had even pitched

On 16 February 2010, during the only Test match against Bangladesh, he scored 185, the very best score ever by a Nz wicket-keeper in Test cricket. He seemed to be mixed up in the record highest sixth-wicket partnership for New Zealand of 339 runs with Martin Guptill, losing out on the entire world record just by 12 runs.

BRENDON MCULLUM'S WIFE

McCullum is married to Ellissa McCullum (n%uFFFDe Arthur), an Australian from Caniaba, Nsw. There is a son Riley plus a daughter Maya.

BRENDON MCULLUM

Brendon Barrie McCullum (born 27 September 1981) can be a Nz international cricketer which is the existing captain in all three kinds of the international game. He plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level, he played for Kolkata Knight Riders from the Indian Premier League, having also spent twelve months with Kochi Tuskers Kerala. McCullum would be a wicket-keeper until 2013, and is an aggressive batsman who opens in a-day Internationals and is acknowledged for his fast scoring rate. 

 His brother Nathan McCullum is a first-class and international cricketer, in addition to their father Stuart McCullum would have been a long-serving first-class player for Otago. Both Brendon and Nathan attended King's Secondary School, Dunedin.

 England for your test series, he was active in the State Shield Final versus Auckland Aces, in scoring 170 runs to the Otago Volts to help beat the Aces at Eden Park's outer oval, and helped to chased down a frightening total of 310 for 7, he broke multiple State Shield batting records.

CHRIS GAYLE GIRLFRIEND PICS

CHRIS GAYLE

Gayle set the first record for your highest innings inside a Twenty20 International, scoring 117 against South Africa inside the first match in the 2007 World Twenty20. The innings was the 1st century in international Twenty20 cricket making it him the first batsman gain century in each of international cricket's three formats. The record stood unmatched until 19 February 2012, when South Africa's Richard Levi scored 117n.o. against New Zealand Cricinfo recognised Levi as having broken the record outright, want . not out innings is ranked above a dismissal.
In the semi-final match from the 2009 World Twenty20 against Sri Lanka, he took over as the first international player to transport his bat through the entire innings with this format from the game at the same time. In April 2008, Gayle was auctioned by the franchise Kolkata Knight Riders with the Indian Premier League, but missed the outlet games due to a Sri Lanka tour on the Caribbean. Whilst finally joined the c's, he missed out on the adventure because of a groin injury he picked up in that tour. Afterwards, he left to become listed on the West Indies team for any home series against Australia, therefore not playing inside the inaugural type of the IPL in any way. On 1 July 2009, Gayle signed with all the Wa Warriors for the Australian Domestic Twenty20 tournament referred to as the Big Bash to the 2009-2013season.
He played in the 2nd IPL competition at the begining of 2009, arriving to have an away Test series against England very late, earning criticism about his commitment. His Test series went poorly, and the West Indies continued to lose the two Make certain you ODI series. Gayle, however, went along to on score a match winning 88 in the first official match of the 2009 Twenty20, inside a surprise victory over Australia.

CHRIS GAYLE

 Chris" Gayle (born 21 September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained free airline Indies' Test side from 2007 to 2010.

 

 He is one of only four players that have scored two triple centuries at Test level: 317 against South Africa in 2005, and 333 against Sri Lanka this season. He works as a big hitter, often hitting sixes next year he had become the first player heading to a six over first ball of a Test match

 Gayle started his cricket career with the famous Lucas Cricket Club in Kingston, Jamaica.Gayle claimed "If it was not for Lucas I don't know where I would be today. Maybe on the streets." Lucas Cricket Club's nursery continues to be named in honour of Gayle

 Gayle played to the West Indies at youth international level before you make his first-class debut aged 19 for Jamaica. He played his first Day International eleven months later, and his awesome first Test match six months .