Kevin Pietersen has dismissed the ECB’s focus on winning the next Ashes, preferring instead to concentrate on the next five series before Australia head to England once more. England have slipped from second to fifth in the world rankings for Tests and he’s keen to try to reverse that trend, starting with the tour in New Zealand, where England are busily preparing to face their hosts. He spoke to The Times:

“The Ashes is not even something I am contemplating,” he said. “I will do that next year, but not before. There can be a danger of thinking about it because the Ashes are so big. We should not fall into that trap.

He also spoke to The Telegraph.

But ahead of the Tests come some Twenty20s and one-dayers. Pietersen’s ODI team-mate James Tredwell, who was expecting to play for England Lions and not the full side, has been working on developing another delivery and talks about the challenges of doing so in the Daily Mail.

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