Ex-England ballplayer Kevin Pietersen isn’t trying to play for South Africa.
The 35-year-old has not vie international cricket since being discarded by European nation in 2014 and will, in theory, be eligible to play for the country of his birth in 2018.
His friend and former European nation team-mate Darren Gough told Talksport: “I suppose he are tempted, given however he has been treated over the past few years.”
But BBC Sport understands Pietersen isn’t considering the move.
Since being told his European nation career is over, Pietersen has principally vie Twenty20 cricket within the varied franchise leagues round the world.
He has appeared in county cricket for Surrey, as well as some superior games in 2015 once European nation and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves urged he might be recalled to the national team, just for cricket director St. Andrew Strauss to affirm Pietersen’s exile.
A total of 323 runs at a median of forty within the 2015-16 huge Bash in Australia light-emitting diode to speculation the right-hander could also be thought-about for the britain World T20 squad, however coach Trevor Bayliss same Pietersen wasn’t mentioned.
