article_snippet: Give up your IPL deal, go and play for, say, Surrey - freezing cold away at Derby.'
article_snippet: Indications since Mr Colin Graves interview appear to have been broadly less encouraging for the exiled 34-year-old batsman, however, who was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for the upcoming IPL season in February.
article_snippet: Incoming chairman of the ECB, Mr Colin Graves, also called on Kevin Pietersen to prove Kevin Pietersen form in county cricket .
article_snippet: There was little engagement in the topic from Kevin Pietersen's former team-mate Joe Root who - along with Kevin Pietersen current colleagues - has more pressing issues to confront in Australia and New Zealand as England try to stay in the World Cup after three defeats in four matches so far.
article_snippet: Root told the BBC: 'the BBC're in the middle of the World Cup, and stuff like that is completely irrelevant to the BBC.'
highlights_snippet: ECB chairman Colin Graves made same remarks at the weekend .
  