{"id":15692,"date":"2012-10-18T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-cricket-pietersen-back-in-england-fold-for-tour-to-india\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:06:29","slug":"update-1-cricket-pietersen-back-in-england-fold-for-tour-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-pietersen-back-in-england-fold-for-tour-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-Pietersen back in England fold for tour to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes, detail)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pietersen added to squad for India series<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Outstanding issues now resolved &#8211; ECB<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Kevin Pietersen has been added to England&#8217;s test squad for next month&#8217;s tour to India after being dropped over a controversial text-message row.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision to recall the South African-born batsman was made after he met up with coach Andy Flower, captain Alastair Cook and other senior players and members of England&#8217;s management team earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were keen Kevin should hold a series of face-to-face meetings with team management and senior players before the test squad departs for the UAE and India next week,&#8221; England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Hugh Morris said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meetings were constructive and cordial and all outstanding issues have been resolved. All the England players and management are now keen to draw a line under this matter and fully focus on the cricketing challenge that lies ahead in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pietersen was dropped by England for the third and final test against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s in August after admitting sending provocative texts to the tourists&#8217; players.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the batsman denied allegations he told them how to dismiss former captain Andrew Strauss.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes, detail) * Pietersen added to squad for India series * Outstanding issues now resolved &#8211; ECB LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Kevin Pietersen has been added to England&#8217;s test squad for next month&#8217;s tour to India after being dropped over a controversial text-message row. The decision to recall the South African-born batsman was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}