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BREAKING: Kevin Pietersen has retired from all international limited overs cricket with immediate effect!

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According to ECB Facebook page

[A-Swing-And-A-Miss]

You beat me to this by about a minute so I'll use this topic instead. We need him more in T20's and ODI's than we do in the Test team, however I suspect he wants to stay in the test team to keep his central contract. Very poor timing tbh, now we need to find a new T20 batsmen to take his place at short notice.

[FvanN]

Think he is going down the Chris Gale route???  tests only for the central contract and then as much T20 as he can muster?

[mattw]

It's on cricinfo.

Fair play to him, let the new blood come through - shame he couldnt be available for the ODI's against Australia this summer though.

[A-Swing-And-A-Miss]

"Pietersen had wished to play in to the T20 World Cup - but his England contract states he must be available for both formats or neither."

Got that from the Lords twitter account, seems like a lack of common sense from the ECB. I doubt the ECB will sit still and do nothing, because the last thing you want before a 20/20 world cup is to see your best batsmen who scored a century in the IPL retire..

FvanN - Chris Gayle doesn't play tests does he? His last one was in 2010..

The ECB ideally should give Pietersen a new contract which states that he should ONLY play the limited overs games, because that's what he is suited to and ideally he should be moving out of the test team to create space for a new, younger batsmen.

[Ryan]

Gutted, he's always been such a presence in the side.

[charlie15]

This could be interesting, I just wonder now he's retiring from the shorter formats if we'll see more of him at Surrey in the Championship, lets face it if we don't he's not going to be playing much between the two summer series.

[100 not out]

well if anyone was made for limited overs cricket, it was KP.

strange decision, but more money in various IPL type tournaments these days.

international cricket will become weaker if this type of trend continues.

[stevie_94_]

Saw on Twitter  cant remember from who though that he wanted to stay in the 2020 side but that the ECB said development of the two, 2020 and ODI sides were now linked. Does this mean that Cook will be in the 2020 side then?

[Johnny]

If he retires from Limited Overs cricket full stop then fair enough, but to retire from internationals but carry on getting big bucks to go play IPL whilst still expecting to play Tests makes no sense to me (other than for his wallet) - this seems a very, very selfish decision - I hope he gets dropped from all forms off the back of this.

[spl]

I think you could make a pretty good case for him being the best T20 batsman in the world.  He averages almost twice what Gayle does in T20 internationals.  Gutted he won't be playing, however much I dislike him.

[Buzz]

this seems a very odd decision.

Expect a u-turn.

he must have fallen out with someone at the ECB.
He has just scored a load of runs in ODI cricket and is one of the best 2020 batsmen going.

[alexhilly1492]

according to the lords cricket ground twitter page he wanted to play in the t20 world cup but his contract says he had to play in both one day formats of neither.

I do think however he is a better test match player and this isnt all that bad, yes england have lost a huge player just before a world cup however it gives younger players a chance to prove themselves.

[stevat]

this seems a very odd decision.

Expect a u-turn.

he must have fallen out with someone at the ECB.
He has just scored a load of runs in ODI cricket and is one of the best 2020 batsmen going.

Didn't he get a telling off last week for Twitter remarks about our friend Nick Knight?

Perhaps that's unsettled him somewhat.  Great player to watch, the T20 World Cup will be worse as a result of this news.