News about Kevin Pietersen

Buying my first Chanel handbag back in 2009 felt like such an achievement. It was the classic flap bag in black leather with silver hardware and chain strap. It cost £1,500 - an eyewatering sum for me in my late 20s - but I'd spent years saving up for it, and swinging it over my shoulder, I felt ridiculously proud of myself. Fifteen years later, I'm glad I still own it, but it is carefully packed away in its box. And any money I earn is spent very differently - a holiday or home improvement, or it is saved. Why? Because I no longer carry luxury status symbols around with me - and if I can't use them, why buy them? I've lived and worked in London most of my adult life and, like most people who live in the capital city, I make it my business to be incredibly aware of my surroundings, whatever the time of day. But muggings are now at an all-time high. Incidents of personal theft have tripled in the West End in the past two years, with latest figures showing more than 6,000 luxury watches were stolen in London in 2022.

The balaclava-clad criminal seized the phone in a moment from his startled victim before racing away along a fashionable street near the centre of the capital. The brazen theft follows a series of similar crimes across the city which have prompted fears visitors will steer clear of London for fear of being the next targets. The latest incident happened in Albany Place in Marylebone, near Regents Park, with footage shared and going viral on X, formerly Twitter. The account uploading the clip captioned it with the words of warning: 'Keep your head on swivel when in London.'

The former Test captain appeared to fear being a victim in an online taunt about crime levels in London - directly addressing Mr Khan. Ex-international Pietersen revealed on X, formerly Twitter, he was removing any expensive jewellery - including his wedding ring - as he prepared to visit London. He shared a photo of his hand this morning, accompanied by the words: 'Gotta go into London today. No watch and a flimsy piece of plastic on my wedding finger. Well done, @Sadiq Khan!' Pietersen, who played 104 Test matches for England and helped the side win the T20 World Cup in 2010, received both praise and mockery for this morning's message.

The Princess Of Wales''most realistic' Kate Middleton lookalike has requested that wild conspiracy theories about her Lady Of Wales be 'put to bed.' Heidi Agan, a professional lookalike who has been earning more than a decade as an impersonating the royal, has been consistently attacked on the internet by wild claims that it was actually her in a farm shop video of Prince William and Kate. On Friday, Agan appeared on The Morning Show: "It's been completely insane." I've obviously been doing a lot of interviews and giving people my alibi about my whereabouts.'

Heidi Agan, a professional Kate Middleton impersonating the royal for more than a decade, said it was not her who was seen in a video of the Prince and Princess of Wales near Windsor on Saturday. Heidi said on ITV's This Morning, 'I think it's time for the public to leave her alone.' It started off as a joke, but I suspect she is fine, but before that, she needs to recover and heal.'

Emma Taylor, a 43-year-old England cricketer, lives with his wife Jessica Taylor, who is also 43, close to Windsor, where Kate and William were seen on Saturday. Kate was caught walking quickly from a grocery store with her husband, the first video of the future queen after her abdominal surgery in January. Despite The Sun's video demonstrating that Kate is recovering well, the film was a balm to millions in the United Kingdom and around the world, but crazed conspiracy theories are still circulating about her. 'The conspiracy theories regarding Kate are totally ridiculous,' she said, despite the fact that it is not Kate and cranks still insisting it is not Kate.' 'We see W&K [William and Kate] most days and in the last couple days too! It beggars belief that people would be so unneful and cruel in writing BULLS**T'. 'W&K are the most wonderful parents, and they are also as normal/humble as they come,' He said. Let K., who is recovering from an operation, recover. Leave her and her lovely family alone.' Kevin Pietersen has previously posted about running cricket lessons at Lambrook School, which is where William and Kate's children are enrolled. It has been previously reported that KP's son Dylan, who is supposed to be a top cricketer in the making, also attends Lambrook. In Sheffield today (left), the Prince of Wales returned to royal duties as a royal expert who informed Kate and William that walking out of a busy Saturday lunchtime shatters conspiracy theories about her health and her relationship.

Exclusive INTERVIEW BY CHRIS FOY: Ollie Lawrence is a writer who inspired him. He grew up playing and watching a variety of sports, so there were several of them. On Saturday, one could be with him or against him, and another could be opposite him. However, let's start with one that will not be near Murrayfield and the Six Nations. The Bath and England center, who is primed for a recall against Scotland after a hip injury, claims 'Michael Jordan was certainly my most athletic idol.' "I didn't watch much American sports as a child, but when the Last Dance came out, it opened my eyes to him as a character and everything he did in his career.' "It wasn't just his education, but the company's culture and his drive to be the best in the industry.' That resonated with me and is something I want to be. I want to be a member of winning squads and do all the little things that add up.

When Rehan Ahmed recalls the talk that culminated in his first appearance as England's new 'Nighthawk,' he glows with all the excitement of a 19-year-old living his dream.' 'I don't know where I got the confidence from,' Ahmed of his batting comeo, which culminated in two fours in the last over a third day, despite what was used to be called the nightwatchman's appearance in the second Test. 'As we were walking around, I went straight to Stokesey and thought, 'let me get the pads on.' I just felt it was a good time to go into the world, and I'll do so if I have the opportunity. 'He let me do it as well,' which was cool.'

England won by a 190-run deficit in Hyderabad on Sunday to defeat India in a historic Test victory. Ben Stokes' side recovered after a difficult first two days with a spectacular 196 from Ollie Pope. In the first Test, debutant spinner Tom Hartley spun his team to a 28-run victory.

Ben Stokes' side recovered with a 196 from Ollie Pope as he came back from a jittery first innings to play one of his country's best abroad. Tom Hartley, the debutant spinner, made a comeback of his own by taking seven second innings wickets to spin his team to victory by 28 runs. With confidence on their side and a series win in India, England will now go into the remainder of the series, an unprecedented occurrence in the modern age.

MATT HUGHES: After being chastised for their spartan coverage of day one in Hyderabad, former England captain Sir Alastair Cook and fast bowler Steven Finn are likely to lead a beefed-up TNT Sports' production of the second Test in Visakhapatnam next week. With TNT's home nationals only signing a five-year contract last week, there was insufficient time to build a punditry team before the series's launch, leaving host Matt Floyd to talk in a broadcaster without a single studio presence. For the remainder of the series, TNT will have a broadcast feed of the Indian commentary team, including former England captains Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan, but will also have their own pundits from the second Test onwards.

Fast starts, keeping India's spinners quiet, runs on the board and picking the right team! Those are the keys to touring success, as told to Mail Sport by England's heroes of 2012, when the last Test team to beat mighty India on their own turf.

Any player coming out of retirement these days, swapping the pitch for the camera is almost a mandatory move for players. However, although the majority of people work for a spot in the commentary box, the sight of professional athletes becoming television presenters is somewhat unusual. Seldom are more popular at both football and television than Freddie Flintoff, who went from being one of England's greatest-ever cricketers to a television icon.

On Friday, the England all-rounder, 45, was seen for the first time in public nine months after the near-fatal crash on the show's test track in Dunsfold, Surrey, which left him with severe facial injuries and numerous broken ribs. According to his 17-year-old son, Corey, the father-of-four was 'lucky to be alive' as his open-topped three-wheel Morgan Super 3 flipped over in freezing weather. He was airlifted to a hospital where he spent the next five weeks recovering. Top Gear workers who witnessed the horrific crash were hospitalized indefinitely with post-traumatic stress disorder. After the new series was canceled, Flintoff also dropped the show, with the show's future still hanging in limbo.

Following Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's return to cricket, Kevin Pietersen and Piers Morgan were among those to welcome him back. Flintoff was seen for the first time since he was involved in a horrific crash on BBC's Top Gear nine months ago that nearly killed him, as exclusively revealed by Mail Sport on Friday. Top Gear's practice track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey caused the incident.

SPORTS AGENDA: All managers should be present at pre-match briefings with referees as part of the much lauded'reset' of Premier League rules this season. However, multiple clubs' reports have confirmed that this is simply not happening. Rather, both sides continue to send their assistants, with the police apparently turning a blind eye. The ball boys and girls, on the other hand, are one group of a pre-match chat with the ref. The ball attendants' coordinationator is pulled into a summit in which they are told that shenanigans such as throwing the ball away when the opposition has a throw-in will not be tolerated.

STUART BROAD: The emotions in this series have been amazing. I feel like we're all going through what guys like Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff, and Kevin Pietersen had on the last morning at Edgbaston in 2005. We're living their emotions. I said before this Ashes that I would love it if the series continued to the final day at The Oval. I'm not positive I ever believed that - after all, I just want to win. However, I knew that a selector would be the best for galvanizing the country and attracting children to cricket. It's just amazing to be part of an Ashes that has captured the public's imagination, and the scoreline might be anything. It's 2-1 Australia, and they owe a lot to the Edgbaston and Lord's victories. However, it could be either 3-0 to Australia or 3-0 to England.

Kevin Pietersen isn't shy about critiquing England's cricketers, and the former cricketer was generally dismissive of the third Ashes Test at Headingley on Thursday. The 43-year-old ordered for Ben Stokes' team (right) to avoid talking and actually deliver, claiming that they lack the killer instinct that the Aussies rely on.

MIKE EEGAN: At Lord's last week, it was interesting to see a delegation from Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are considering organizing their own Twenty20 tournament that might put the rest of the field out of the water, as this column has previously noted. Kevin Pietersen, who has often expressed his desire to play franchise county cricket, was one of the first to join the touring team.

Kevin Pietersen did not believe Nathan Lyon came out to bat injured but said he should be struck in the head and allow Australia to bring in a concussion replacement. On Day 2, Australia's off-spinner tore a muscle in his right calf, but the tourists pushed back to the middle to bat at No11, where they finished with four out of 13 runs. On a Sky Sports broadcast as to why Lyon hobbled out to bat, Pietersen said, "I feel [taking] time out of the game and also eking out every single run."

Despite Nathan Lyon's (left) heroically hobbled out to help Australia eek out 15 runs out of a major calf injury, England cricket great Kevin Pietersen said he only did so to get struck in the head. Had Lyon been struck in the head while batting and concussed, he may have been substituted out for a like-for-like replacement, implying spinner Todd Murphy could have appeared in and bowled in the fourth innings. It was a bid that did not go well with Lyon, considering that the Aussie side had to go through when prodigious opener Phillip Hughes (inset) tragically died after being struck by a bouncer.

After badmouthing Aussie cricket great Ricky Ponting, Ollie Robinson (pictured inset) has been branded an Ashes villain. Mel Jones (pictured left) and Kevin Pietersen (right) didn't mince their words in commentary on day one of the second Test at Lord's. The tourists took 5/339 from 83 overs on a day to forget for England, with Steve Smith unbeaten on 85.

England has been chastised for their success on the first day of the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lords, according to Kevin Pietersen. As the Australians continued to recover from their two wicket loss in the first Test at Edgbaston last week, Ben Stokes won the toss and introduced them in bowler-friendly conditions on a green pitch. However, they were nowhere near their best with the ball or in the field, and David Warner and Usman Khawaja got off to a good start, putting on 73 for the first wicket, while Ollie Pope and Joe Root missed catches. Josh Tongue, the Worcestershire opener and most dangerous bowler, made the breakthrough when he bowled both openers and not alike during lunch, while the other seamers struggled for consistency.

IAN HERBERT – DEPUTY SPORTS WRITER – WRITER OVER: It's Groundhog Day at Manchester United. New transfer window, same old confusion. No matter the brand or no matter, no substance is involved. After their traditional midsummer game of whack-a-mole in the city, a club still clings in the hopes that their hallowed name will bring them some players in. United are, of course, marooned with football's greatest speculators, the Glazers. On their first trip to Old Trafford, a family that purchased a couple of 'I Love Man United' T-shirts and an £18 plastic souvenir rucksack sped away in a Volkswagen people carrier and hasn't looked back. A family's primary concern is simply how to squeeze more money from the club, not how to keep up with a tumultuous, elite sports environment.