Kevin Pietersen: a bad week – but is England career really over?

It's been a week that Kevin Pietersen and few at the ECB will forget in a hurry. Here's what happened

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Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has had a week of contrasting fortunes, scoring a magnificent 350 for Surrey before learning that he would not play for England this summer.

Then, after launching a broadside at the English cricket administrators, he saw his hopes of playing in the final stages of the lucrative Indian Premier League dashed by an achilles injury and, having helped Surrey win their first game of the season, left the English county scene for possibly the last time in a private jet.

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