Kevin remembers Bangladesh as nation of left-arm spinners
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen said that whenever he heard Bangladesh he pictures left-arm spin.
Pietersen had an implausible career in cricket and had many memories with many teams he played against. Recently in video published in an English portal Pietersen delivered his sheer of experience and thoughts he played in sub continental turf.
Where explaining his thought about Bangladesh he said that it is hard to bat in Bangladesh as they had plenty left-arm spinner against whom Pietersen felt uncomfortable to bat during his time of play.
"At Bangladesh that was a difficult place to tour man. Especially at the time I was touring there, I couldn't play left-arm spinner and every single bowler in Bangladesh is a left-arm spinner. I think as I got off the aeroplane they were giving me the bowling vibe of a left-arm spin and on the runway out of there on the Emirate aeroplane I think everybody running down the runway bowling left-arm spin. All I think about Bangladesh is left-arm spin," Kevin Pietersen said.
Also sharing his experience while playing in Pakistan he said that how fast Shoaib Akhter was and how Andrew Flintoff mocked the Pakistani paceman and it backfired them.
"It was quite a funny Shoaib was struggling with his knee and he wasn't bowling as quick and Freddie [Andrew Flintoff] sit and turn to him and said Shoaib it's no use of looking like Tarzan and bowling like Jane buddy and you could see that Shoaib took this to heart my goodness the speed that Shoaib Akhter bowled in that Test series oh my it was crazy, he was bowling faster at the five o'clock in the afternoon than what he was bowling at the morning. It was crazy but it was a beautiful tour," he added.
The right-handed former batsman also said how empty the stadium is in Dubai where Pakistan played their matches after the terrorist attack, international cricket was banned in Pakistan for a long time since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore but Pieterson feels that the crowd happens in Pakistan was way good and crazier, so he thinks that cricket should return in their country.
"It's just so unfortunate that hasn't gone back there but in the last six months or the last three or four months we've seen the PSL go back to Pakistan and that's wonderful to see, because they are the most wonderful people who love the game of cricket. So, they deserve to be able to see it.
Again like Dubai, it wasn't great because of no crowds and no one there were watching not very special but needs must," Kevin Pieterson concluded.
