article_snippet: Kevin Pietersen has been given no assurances about a return to England’s set-up in a phone call with the new power- broker of English cricket.
article_snippet: Mixed messages coming out of ECB have left the impression the door is open to the maverick batsman, who was sacked last year after the Ashes debacle.
article_snippet: even if the 34-year-old scores heavily for Surrey on the 34-year-old expected county comeback.
article_snippet: Graves, who instigated the conversation, hoped to keep it confidential but the tenor of the chat was that Kevin Pietersen’s England future rests entirely with the selectors, who would consider form as well as other aspects — such as upsetting team spirit — when picking the Test side this summer.
article_snippet: A number of players, led by captain Alastair Cook, would strongly resist a KP comeback.
article_snippet: Kevin Pietersen said while commentating on Test Match Special at the World Cup:
article_snippet: Surrey still have to agree the detail of Kevin Pietersen’s
article_snippet: Kevin Pietersen would then need some practice in red-ball cricket, which Kevin Pietersen last played in the Sydney Test of January 2014 that completed the 5-0 Ashes whitewash.
article_snippet: England cricket managing director Paul Downton said England cricket managing director Paul Downton watched every ball of that game and had never seen a player so disengaged from England cricket managing director Paul Downton team-mates.
article_snippet: Given the strong opposition of Downton and chairman of selectors James Whitaker, Pietersen’s hopes boil down to Pietersen’s doing so badly against the West Indies and New Zealand in the next two Test series that radical changes are considered for the Ashes, which starts in July.
article_snippet: Former England captain Michael Vaughan has called Pietersen’s current situation a ‘soap opera’, and says the team need to beat the West Indies 3-0 to stop talk of a Kevin Pietersen comeback.
article_snippet: It is clear that for Kevin to have any hope of playing for England —
article_snippet: ‘The game needs a change, The game needs someone to come in and say the past is the past and to start afresh.
article_snippet: If a few feathersn’t want Pietersen in the side then go to the West Indies and win 3-0.
article_snippet: Play better, score more runs and win more games and Kevin Pietersen will never play again.
highlights_snippet: even if Kevin Pietersen scores heavily for Surrey .