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England got through 29 players in 6 tests that year, so that goes without saying. Those 41 wickets for Alderman, however, flattered both him and Australia. That Australian side was nothing special, nowhere near as good as the team that came over and won in 1993 and 1997 and Alderman, accurate...

In the 1989 Ashes series, Graham Gooch was so traumatised at his continual dismissals by medium pace trundler Terry Alderman that it scrambled his brain and led to him making himself unavailable for selection. It didn't stop him regrouping and coming back the following year and scoring a triple...

Which an average of 47, 23 test hundreds in 104 test matches and 8181 test runs confirm he has for nearly a decade.

It's like an article writer said yesterday. We have a tendency in this country to be more critical of players that hole out at the boundary trying to accelerate the score than we do of players who get clean bowled missing a straight one. What it highlights is that we have a suspicion of talent...

He is England's 4th highest test run scorer of all time. Only Gooch, Stewart and Gower have scored more test runs in the history of English cricket. He has scored 67 more runs in test cricket than Geoff Boycott in 4 test matches fewer. He has scored 23 test hundreds and only one English...

On a good day, I feel like it! I'm actually 35.

Because people's narrow view of nationality has changed due to more people than ever moving out of the place they were born in and settling in another as a result of the ease of travel now.

His selective injuries as you refer to them were presumably due to him trying to save himself for England, as most cricketers who have a central contract do to some degree or another. With England no longer in the picture, he will presumably want to play cricket of any kind as often as he can...

Still not going to affect Pietersen playing for Surrey in August though, even if he were interested in playing in 'The Big Bash'.

He'll do both! Playing in the IPL in April and May (which he will do) won't stop him from coming back to play for Surrey in the summer where he will also get to play in the limited overs formats as well as the 4 day games.

The IPL runs from March to the beginning of May. It's long finished by the start of August. Pietersen scored a double hundred for Surrey last season, so I imagine he will be playing plenty of games in county cricket once IPL's done and should fill his boots.

I actually think we haven't seen the last of Pietersen in an England sweater. If England find themselves trailing 1-0 to India in the summer going into the last test at The Oval and Pietersen goes and scores some daddy hundreds and a double hundred for Surrey, they will find it hard to ignore...

The arrival of Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad, neither of whom were at the club when Pietersen left, was instrumental in their improved fortunes.

Pietersen and Gower are both swashbuckling batsmen who are not going to die wondering. You are not going to get them to play a Geoffrey Boycott/Mike Atherton style 8 hour attritional innings because that's not their style and it would bore their brains out after a while if all they could do was...

Since when has one series been 'a long while'? He was instrumental in England winning the Ashes series in England, scoring a century in one of the tests, and even more so in England winning in India the previous winter, an achievement almost as good as winning in Australia.

Do you regard Greg Rusedski as Canadian despite him having stayed in Britain ever since he retired and having married an English woman? I think Pietersen regards himself as English because he is unhappy at how he was treated in the country of his birth during his formative professional cricket...

Working hard was important for Ashley Giles to get to the top of the game because he didn't have the natural talent. What needs to be realised is that everyone is an individual and naturally gifted players tend to have work less to produce the goods because the talent is already there but just...

Pietersen is cut from the same cloth as his old mate Shane Warne. He doesn't like conforming. The difference being that Warne could publicly criticise the coach and he'd get away with it because he happened to be the greatest spinner of his, or indeed any, generation. We don't seem to know how...

Neither were Geoffrey Boycott, Shane Warne or Brian Lara. Their countries wouldn't have functioned as well without them though.