Kevin Pietersen 158 vs. Australia, The Oval, September 2005

[MilminimanSwimwamly]

I'm an Aussie, and even I love Pietersen. What's more is that my father was born in Pietermaritzburg South Africa just like Kevin, and he left the country for the same reason that Kevin did. He's a top cricketer, and a top bloke. I pulled up a chair and had a beer in great anticipation every time he came on to bat in the recent test series against Pakistan.

[kanailal]

I am so proud to be English by heritage! Go England!

[john12514]

Ahsan & Arbaaz Our favorite Batsman K.P

Killed Aussi hahahaaaaaaaaa

[john12514]

GREATEST Batsman ALL Time K.P

GREATEST Inning For K.P

Killed Aussi

[butabenjai]

"fucking good ball that"

[loveenglandcricket]

best batsman ever <3

[IamEVILarka]

one batsman who has everything to be a great player..technique,courage,aggr­ession,skill,nerves of steel. his only problem is that he gets carried away sometimes..still for me..KING KEVIN RULES

[Verity12ful]

Kp hasn't really lived up to his protential

[Dellard32]

"It's baseball!"

"It's 4, that all that matters"

[mssafrican100]

He born & grew up in Pitermaritzburg South Africa..Coz his parents was British so he got the place in England.England must thank to South Africa to produce crickter for them.Actually he didnt get chance to play for SA so he went away to England..

[johnsmith4442]

@mssafrican100 nah like a lot of english south africans he would rather play for his ancestral country than a load of boer numpties.Good on Kev!

[TheSinnical]

never again KP has played like this!

[supervenom]

4:29....shot of the year !!!! lollllllllll

[awesome6067]

wat a huk shot 3:31

[watch529]

this innings is class, but his 202* was immense

[pollockdonald]

shane warne took 40 wickets for the series and dropped the ashes

[bollyBob1980]

I think KP would have been dubbed a superlative batsman in any era; for mine he is good enough to average 50+; that he has not yet consistently achieved this is proof that his potential has not been realised in its entirety. He still makes fundamental errors of judgement that at this stage of his career should be absent; Bill Lawry perhaps correctly suggested that he should bat below Bell. Finally, those roped off boundaries are a true insult to his awesome power & stroke play. Thank you.

[MrIamthedeadman]

Kevin Pietersen played amazing in this innings. Shane Warne has great sportsmanship. 8:25 proves that. I'm sure he will remember those sixes forever lol

[mubee786]

by an "english" batsmen lol thats funny, last time i checked he was born and grew up in SA, England needs to be proud of ENGLISH players like Cook!!!

[hoax345]

looks like warne and hayden dont like the fact that they dropped him...

[DAYDREAMER6677]

What has happened to this guy?? he used to be our best batsmen and now at a time where he should be peaking he seems to have fallen apart?? Ive still got time for him tho and id LOVE to see him get a shed load of runs vs sri lanka

[555hugs]

@DAYDREAMER6677 currently pietersen has made 5 runs at 2.50. then you see trott, bell, cook, even prior scoring at over 100, all with centuries to their name, trott a double

[gangsta123203]

he is a good agressive player put is conversion rate is not that good

[lionspremiers08]

8:15 = 'fuckin good ball, that'

[rebusubervideo]

8:25 is the reason Shane Warne has my respect. They lost but HE was tall.

[Alexlance1997]

great but lucky batting. Really lucky and really good batting

[ianwilson2007]

thanks for uploading this. Great quality. Whenever I'm feeling down there are certain sporting videos I watch to cheer me up and this is one of them.

[ghasher5]

2people dont have as much sportsmanship as shane warne does

[rizwansialkoti1978]

for me this is the best innings by an English batsman against Australia, in an ashes series.

[dashingshaky]

Brett Lee will specially remember these sixes forever !!!!!!!

[pollockdonald]

eng can thank black south africa for this superstar

[tFGaming]

8:14 KP says "fucking good ball, that". Great innings, I love KP!

[adi87tya]

One of the best players in the world!

[tommos1]

i love how lee just got raped after that bouncer. KP just went "na im gonna take you on" and just smacked him for sixes down in that square leg region.

[Charlie9046]

Haha Vaughan at 9.03 is thinking 'what an idiot'!

[benbigheadacc93]

peitersen has once again proved he is the best batsman in the worlds

[macphersonleedsunite]

Hey Aussies looks like your shit, you conceded 500+ runs in two out of the three inning.

[DAJAZDJ1]

SAY FUCK U AUSSIES FUCK U AUSSIES SAY FUCK U AUSSIES FUCK U AUSSIES PONTING ONLY SKIP EVER TO LOSE 3 ASHES SERIES USELES AUSSIE CHEATING CUNT WELL DONE RICKY 3 IN A ROW BITCH

[tomo44139]

@DAJAZDJ1 blimey. you honestly need to find out where the caps lock button is and turn it of.

[DAJAZDJ1]

AM I DREAMING OR HAVE WE REALLY JUST BEAT THEM MOTHERFUCKING CHEATING AUSSIE CUNTS BY AN INNINGS AND 71 SO IN BOTH THERE INNINGS AT HOME THEY CANT EVEN GET CLOSE TO ONE OF OURS SO TO ME THAT MEANS WHERE TWICE AS GOOD BRING THE ASHES HOME BOYS OH SHIT I FORGOT WE ALREADY GOT IT IF YOUR AN AUSSIE YOU CAN SUCK MY MOTHERFUCKING DICK ESPECIALLY DANNI AND KYLIE 

[VideoARTAbez]

Australia have lost their edge, they had intimidating players like Warne, Gilchrist, Mcgrath, Lee, Hayden etc. Now they have little nowbody's in their attack.

[DAJAZDJ1]

ENGLAND HAVE JUST SCORED A TOTALLY EXTRAORDINARY 517-1 TODAY AND ONLY DREW

[DAJAZDJ1]

SURE BOWDEN'S JUST LOOKING FOR HEADLINES WITH HIS SILLY UMPIRE SIGNALS

[DAJAZDJ1]

NOT REALLY A K.P FAN I THINK HIS PREVIOUS REPUTATION HAS KEPT HIM IN THE TEAM TOO MANY TIMES BUT I LOVED THAT STRAIGHT DRIVE AT 1.59

[MattA96]

@DAJAZDJ1 what about now!

[DAJAZDJ1]

@MattA96 WON BY AN INNINGS AND 71. PIETERSON'S A MOTHERFUCKING GENIUS. GOT A DOUBLE TON AND THE VITAL WKT OF MICKY CLARKE WHEN HE WAS STARTING TO GET COMFORATABLE ON 80. I ALWAYS SAID K.P WAS WORLD CLASS. NUMBER 1 IN THE WORLD NOW WITH THE BAT I RECKON ALWAYS HAVE DONE

[DAJAZDJ1]

IT WOULD OF BEEN A FAILURE IF HE DIDN'T GET A BIG SCORE AFTER HOW MANY CHANCES AUSSIES WASTED ANY BATTER WOULD GET A SCORE WITH THAT MANY LIFES

[saguire]

holy schnitzels how lucky was pietersen at the start of his innings? so many chances to get out, he got the fortune on his side. however he paid back by making a fine 100red

[supaahflyy]

Australia has lost its scare factor i think, If you look at the bowlers they were all legends. Lee,Mcgrath,Warnie. These three were probably the best in the business now they have siddle...johnson.... and whatever that tasmianian guys name is.

[ehssen1]

great playa him 2 win us the ashes down under scoring 1000 runs!

[damo24now]

bowled to many short balls to him. great knock

[CollingwoodLakersAB]

How good was that of warnie - clapping his hundred and going up to him after he got out and said good knock...better than most to do that...i wouldnt do that...i know he had some off pitch indescretions but he really is a class act.

[DAJAZDJ1]

@CollingwoodLakersAB NOT THAT GOOD REALLY HE ONLY DID IT COS THEY WAS TEAMATES AT HAMPSHIRE IF IT WAS SRAUSSY OR COOKIE OR COLLINGWOOD HE WOULDN'T OF DONE IT

[aWpIeS]

"fucking good ball that" haha

[glasshouse75]

Still sends shivers down my spine. 

[rothordegilian]

This is some of the greatest cricket you could ever watch. Brilliant bowling and fantastic counter-attacking batting :)

[tintinworld]

I completely agree. I've been watching England since 1989. This is the best innings I have seen by an England Player. The context the innings and the sheer balls by which the innings was played. The session after lunch when Brett Lee was bowling was such high risk tactics, but it worked. Beating the Auzzies by bold play, not a usual England Team trait!

[Edd731]

Amazing innings. He was lucky with the dropped catches etc but slogged that ball around. Wicked.

[IMATTZiiI]

dude is pietersen gay?

[badababada]

i wish they could digitally edit this video to remove his haircut

[kriss7516]

It shame that KP is not who he used to be one fo the best bastmen in cricket .Know he just good batsmen.One day he show use old self again.I think In Aussie this year he will show he best.This was amzing by pietersen.Kick some ass kp

[kprules4ever]

He is arrogant, smart, outrageous, glamarous, fascinating, attractive, explosive, graceful, magical, brilliant, fabulous, agressive and rules all the bowlers.

KP RULES

[Imrankniazi]

You had everything in this series. One of the finest fast bowling spells I witnessed from Glenn McGrath in Lord's. Taking 5 wickets and more importantly clean bowling top-order English bastmen as if they were club level cricketers. Even by McGrath's lofty standards, that was a special spell!

Freddie at Edgsbaston and Jones at Manchester were outstanding with the ball. I'm not a huge fan of Freddie's batting , but he played some superb knocks too.

And to top it off, this great knock from KP!

[Imrankniazi]

The intensity in that series was unbelieveable. I watched all the tests and can't believe it's been 5 years. McGrath, Flintoff, Jones, Lee, Warne, KP, Vaughan, Trescothick -- all on top of their game and you could almost feel their passion through the TV set :-)

One of the best, if not the best, Test series I've had the privilege to see.

[downton85]

4.28 absolute quality! baseball!! haha kp is a true legend....

[279Cricket]

at the beginning did the commentater call peitersen, Penisen?

[DKLillee355]

I could watch 3:06 all day.

[Grunge1012]

And, I think the England team needs to select a first team and stick with it, stop bringing new players in that have bassicly zero skill. (James Andersons Economy over the past bunch of games speaks for its self)

[Grunge1012]

What a shame, he is now not a patch on his former self, constantly out for small totals and always injured. I would drop him from the team, Bopara is playing ALOT better these days.

[PomBare]

Is this the innings where Warne had a spell bowling wide and Pietersen kept padding them, like a stalemate situation? I'd like to find that moment, I thought it was this innings

[connor6665]

i thought the 2009 series was good but 2005 was phenomenal, close win at trent bridge, 2 run win at edgbaston, gary pratt run out, mgarth against england at lords, the close decisions, solid teams.

[JamesEngland60]

Good video

[calvingmail]

Dirty racist Aussies lost

[aju1503]

great innings by him and great umpiring by the umpires too!! :)

[calvingmail]

@aju1503

Shot at 3:31 was fantastic

[tw0toes]

what a fucking shocker of a haircut.

[Englishman786]

Jonathan Trott - South African

Kevin Peterson - South African

Craig Kieswatter - South African

Eoin Morgan - Irish

Michael Lumb - South African

Owais Shah - Pakistani

Andrew Sturass - South African

Matt Prior - South African

Monty Penesar - Indian

[calvingmail]

@Englishman786

So wahat???

[Durbs75]

@Englishman786

Can you please clarify which of these people were born in England and which were not. And then please explain why those born here cannot play for England.

Don't generalise. And instruction. Not a plea



[Fitmatt1978]

@Englishman786 Thats the nature of our country - we have a huge proportion of immigrants and people of various races and nationalities and this is going to be represented in our cricket team.

[yasir827]

excellent video

[MrStudoggydog]

8.15.. "F*cking good ball that" - great knock as well!

[niceisone]

i m searching for a video in which Billy Bowden (umpire) shows red card to Glen McGrath.. if any one have please send me..:) i m waiting...

[calvingmail]

Aussies...sore losers

[damaverick74]

I think this was a series that could be put down to one that Australia lost and not England won and it was mainly due to bad captaincy...I think while this was a good english side it certainly wasn't of the same calibre as the Australian team...How many lives does this guy (Peterson) wanna get.. There was one bouncer in this innings that Brett Lee bowled to hime that almost had him bending over backwards onto the stumps..Fully credit to himbut not a great innings in my books.

[sean2088]

@damaverick74 clearly, he got let off the hook more times than is normal but you can't say it's not a great innings. scoring 158 in 187 balls in a test match against bowlers like warne and mcgrath? regardless of how many times you get let off, you had to play a brilliant innings to score so highly and so quickly against them.

[damaverick74]

@sean2088 Yeah I did watch the innings and he made the most of his opportunities for sure (maybe I am frustrated as that was the key innings in the series)..I think Ricky Ponting bowled Brett Lee for too long and thats where it all changed..Scratchy start but then no looking back

[osmandebest]

KP simply wont be the same player again unless he is hungry enough to win the ashes. It is why he played so well in 2005 against d aussies . BUt know with IPL giving him 1.5 million i doubt he will ever be hungry again

[ayaazcyclops]

yeah he mustve played well...GOD was on his side that day..i mean how lucky cud u get

[19raghu]

hahaa Love his Hairstyle.....My fav batsman after Sourav Ganguly

[zhubabavaljaveer]

wow. 1:53

that is the best shot in cricket

[789fahim]

one of the greatest and important ASHES innings

[candistarem]

6:07 his smile :)

[lfcjudo]

The pull shot down the ground off Lee was my favourite, when you consider Lee is bowing 90 plus mph, it makes it even more incredible.

[razor02134]

best series iv ever seen nerly every over was a battle between batter and bowler

[cheekydance]

Kev is a great runner between the wickets.

[ghostzulu]

wow very close for a hatrick, dam.

[pollockdonald]

this was the best series ever warne took 40 wickets and dropped the ashes

[AerospaceEngineer90]

It was an absolutely Amazing series, the close finish at Edgbaston, Ponting saving Australia and salvaging a draw at Old trafford in spite of Vaughan's captain's Innings in the first Innings and Strauss' ton in the second. etc.

A series dominated by the amazing bowling attacks of both parties (McGrath, Warne and Lee on one side, Harmison, Flintoff and Jones on the other), the dismal weather encouraged swing and the sheer volume of reverse swing acheived is near unbeleivable..

Best series yet!

[pollockdonald]

yeah well said it was defnitly some of the best reverse swing bowling ive ever seen and contest between bat and ball the whole series was just amazing

[Zrimmy15]

my fav shot was 8:06

[555hugs]

I could watch 4:28 all day.

[hawk080522]

@555hugs what a shott

[oli3659]

@555hugs

lol why

[searledesign]

@555hugs, Haha, I just watched it about ten times in a row then read your comment.

[simonjacks1986]

@555hugs I must've watched that 10 times in a row! Boycott had wood after seeing that!

[supaahflyy]

@555hugs fkn brilliant that was

[s8tank]

@555hugs Everyday.

[MrRant25]

This has to be the best counter-attacking innings in the history of cricket.

[MaNiAcOwNeR]

haha, when he gets out he goes - 'very good ball that'

[SixEightySeven]

Great player. What would England give to have him fit for the Oval this year?