England’s Kevin Pietersen was in a fabulous form in the ODI series against South Africa as he ended the series with 454 runs at a mind blowing average of 151.33 with 3 hundreds and a fifty. Pietersen, in fact, just missed to overhaul West Indian Chris Gayle’s world record of most runs in a bilateral series. Gayle had aggregated 455 runs against India in 2002-03.
Pietersen, however, managed to equal two world records. When his score reached 58 during the course of his innings of 116 in the last game of the series, Pietersen completed his 500 runs in One-Day Internationals. It took him only 9 innings to accomplish this feat – same number of innings played by England’s Dennis Amiss to hold a long standing world record of fastest 500 runs in a career.
Pietersen also joined the selected band of cricketers who have scored thee centuries in a series / tournament. The other members of this exclusive club are England’s David Gower & Graeme Hick, Australia’s Mark Waugh (twice), West Indians Desmond Hayned & Chris Gayle,Indians Sourav Ganguly & VVS Laxman, Pakistanis Zaheer Abbas & Saeed Anwar.
Pietersen, however, managed to equal two world records. When his score reached 58 during the course of his innings of 116 in the last game of the series, Pietersen completed his 500 runs in One-Day Internationals. It took him only 9 innings to accomplish this feat – same number of innings played by England’s Dennis Amiss to hold a long standing world record of fastest 500 runs in a career.
Pietersen also joined the selected band of cricketers who have scored thee centuries in a series / tournament. The other members of this exclusive club are England’s David Gower & Graeme Hick, Australia’s Mark Waugh (twice), West Indians Desmond Hayned & Chris Gayle,Indians Sourav Ganguly & VVS Laxman, Pakistanis Zaheer Abbas & Saeed Anwar.
