Kevin Pietersen paternity leave could scupper Englands World Twenty20 chances

By Derek Pringle in Dhaka Published: 5:54PM GMT 01 March 2010

Up in the air: Kevin Pietersen and mother Jessica are awaiting their initial kid Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Pietersen and his mother Jessica are awaiting their initial kid in mid-May and the selectors have since their good fortune for him to attend the bieing born even if it equates to blank critical matches.

Andrew Flintoff, England"s alternative big-name player, longed for last summer"s World Twenty20 by damage (he is blank this time for the same reason).

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But at slightest Pietersen, declared on Monday in England"s rough 30-man patrol for the contest (to be whittled down to fifteen by the finish of the month), will begin the tournament, that runs from Apr thirty to May 16, notwithstanding International Cricket Council manners precluding a deputy solely on healing grounds.

"We"re not environment a fashion here and I"m a good disciple for players being plain family-wise," Geoff Miller, the inhabitant selector, said.

"I"ve no evidence with Kevin"s ask and he is excellent about going to the West Indies and being a seven-hour moody away," pronounced Miller. "But nobody dictates when the bieing born of a kid will be and it competence not occur during the tournament."

Players putting family prior to group is distinct and zero new in the complicated age, though it is maybe surprising during a tellurian competition. Yet, with so most intensity employers out there for players of Pietersen"s reputation, the England and Wales Cricket Board knows it cannot be as well proscriptive over the conditions of employment.

There was less inexhaustible diagnosis from the selectors for Alastair Cook, England"s behaving Test and one-day captain in Bangladesh, but not their Twenty20 leader, an honour that falls to Paul Collingwood.

Cook was one of multiform important absentees from the 30-man patrol along with Graham Napier, James Foster and Kent"s Robert Key, all 3 in England"s patrol for last year"s World T20.

Someone had to compensate for the team"s exit in the quarter-finals and the last three, old pros by complicated standards, have been transposed by Craig Kieswetter, Michael Lumb, Peter Trego, Steve Finn, David Wainwright and Chris Woakes, as the selectors opt for uninformed minds and immature limbs.

After England"s one-day win over Bangladesh on Sunday, Cook, who finished 64, pronounced he hoped he would have the rough T20 squad; the import being that his surge in scoring rates in 50-over cricket competence be recognised, even if usually for a rough squad. But Twenty20 and 50-over cricket are opposite beasts and no one outward Cook"s evident family will feel his ostracism is unfair.

"There"s a thespian disproportion in between 50 and 20-over cricket and at this theatre we don"t think Alastair is right for it," pronounced Miller. "He knows the situation. When we initial left him out of the one-day side he went behind and softened his one-day batting at Essex. He"s finished that for 50-over cricket but at this impulse in time we don"t think he"s up to the symbol for Twenty20."

Cook can overcome his beating by assisting to win Tuesday"s day-night compare opposite Bangladesh in Dhaka and thereby clinching the series.

Victory on Sunday was due mostly to a multiple of insufficiency from Bangladesh and shrewd expertise from Collingwood, who oversaw the run follow opposite 4 spinners underneath lights with unqualified ease. England will not regularly be equates to to rely on those dual factors and others need to minister in some-more suggestive ways.

Tuesday"s compare at the Sher-e-Bangla inhabitant track is on a opposite strip, but Graeme Swann"s value as England"s sole dilettante spinner last week end will roughly positively see James Tredwell have his one-day entrance as a second off-spinner in place of Luke Wright, who tweaked his hamstring.

As a part of of assorted England squads Tredwell has tramped median around the creation and it is time the selectors and team-mates found out some-more about him.

More eyes will be on Pietersen, whose batting form in 50-over cricket has been in the ennui for a while. Indeed, he has upheld 50 only 3 times in his past twenty innings, the group winning after only one of them. A match-winning hit is due shortly or we will begin to dont think about what the bitch was about in the initial place.