Kevin Pietersen Story


Kevin Pietersen has arrived in London for a series of meetings with his England team-mates and officials.
BBC News
Pietersen, who was dropped in August, recently agreed a new England contract but must undergo a "reintegration" period before rejoining the team.England Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad told BBC Breakfast he would be one of the players to meet the 32-year-old."I want to catch up with KP," he said. "The only way to move forward is to talk about things."
Pietersen apologised to former captain Andrew Strauss for sending"provocative" text messages to opposing players during the Test series against South Africa.
The ECB accepted the texts were not derogatory about Strauss and the Surrey batsman was given a new four-month contract pending a successful outcome to his "reintegration" period.
England fly out to Abu Dhabi next week ahead of their four-Test tour of India in November and December.
The meetings were due to take place on Monday, after Pietersen was given permission to leave South Africa by the Delhi Daredevils between their Champion League Twenty20 fixtures, but his flight was delayed by 24 hours.
But Pietersen tweeted  on Tuesday to say he had landed in London.
Broad added: "KP is having some meetings at the moment."He's quite busy in South Africa so I think he's taking some time out of his schedule to come see the guys.
"It will be a meeting with some of the hierarchy of the ECB to just lay some things down."I think there will be good meetings with most of the England players and hopefully we can move forward and draw a line under the whole experience."
Rifts between Pietersen and his team-mates surfaced over the summer, with the batsman admitting to issues "in the dressing-room" after scoring a century in the Headingley Test in August.Two days after Pietersen was dropped over the texts scandal, Broad issued a statement denying any involvement in a Twitter account called KP Genius that parodied the South Africa-born batsman.England seamer Graham Onions, who is in the squad for the India series, told BBC Sport he was not aware of any cliques in the dressing-room or ill-feeling towards Pietersen.
"The England side prides itself on being a really, really close-knit family," said Onions, who played the last of his nine Tests against West Indies in June but was a squad member for the South Africa series.
"I can honestly say that before this all came out, nothing had come up with regard to any kind of cliques or anything like that."I've got no problems with Kevin at all. He's a fantastic player, a high-profile player and for me to play in the same side as Kevin Pietersen, as I have been lucky enough to nine times, has been special. It would be nice to see Kevin in that shirt again."

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