Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  E whakapono ana te rangatira o Ingarangi o mua a Mike Gatting kia kaua a Kevin Pietersen e haere tika atu ki te tautuhinga o te ao, ahakoa ka eke ia ki te rere mo Surrey i tenei wa. Kua hoki mai a Pietersen ki te LV = County Championship i roto i te tono ki te tono mo te hokinga mai o Ingarangi, ahakoa ko te 34-tau-tau anake i whakahaere i te 19 rerenga ki a Glamorgan i te Ratapu. I whakatauhia a Ingarangi ki te toenga i te Whakamātautau whakatuwhera o te raupapa e toru-takaro ki a West Indies i tera wiki, ana ko nga karanga mo te hokinga mai o Pietersen kei te noho tonu i mua o te Ashes i tenei raumati. I eke a Kevin Pietersen ki te 170 i tana haerenga tuatahi mo Surrey i tenei wa engari i eke ia ki te 19 anake ki a Glamorgan. 'Kei reira he torutoru piriti e hiahia tonu ki te kia hanga anō,' ka mea a Gatting, nei i tika i tuhituhia he karere mihi ki a James Anderson, Ingarangi ārahi Test wicket-taker, hei wāhanga o te haerenga haki whakanui o Slazenger. Ahakoa ka rere ngā kaute KP, kāore pea he wāhi wātea. Mēnā he pai te tākaro a Gary Ballance, Ian Bell me Joe Root, kāore pea he wāhi mō ia. 'Kia whai koe i tētahi e kore e tākaro pai ki te tiki Pietersen i roto i. 'Kāore ia e hoki mai tika mai - kāore e tika ki ngā tāngata i reira i tēnei wā. 'Ki te whiwhi rerenga ia, pai, engari ehara i te mea ko te mutunga o te reira. 'Mēnā he pai te tākaro a te tangata i roto i te kapa, he aha ia i haere ai ki roto?' Kei te hiahia a Pietersen ki te tākaro anō mō Ingarangi i muri i tana tukunga i te tau 2014. Ko Bell raua ko Ballance i eke ki nga rau i Antigua i te wa i whakaatuhia ai e Root nga tohu o te ahua pai me nga kaute 83 me te 59. Heoi, he iti ake te whakatenatena mo te rangatira o Ingarangi a Alastair Cook, i taea anake te whakahaere i te 11 me te 13, e toro ana i tana rere me te kore o te rau tau ki te 33 innings. Nā te kino o ngā mahi a Cook i whakakorea ai ia hei kapene Kotahi-Rā i mua i te Ipu o te Ao i te tīmatanga o tēnei tau, ā, e whakaae ana a Gatting ka nui ake ngā pātai ka pātai atu ki te rangatira o Ingarangi mēnā ka kore ia e kitea ngā whiwhinga ki a West Indies. 'E mōhio ana a Alastair he aha tana mahi, me whai wāhi ia,' e ai ki a Gatting. 'Ka taea e tātou te whakapae engari e whakaaro ana ahau i te pito o te West Indies...
I eke a Kevin Pietersen ki te 19 mo Surrey ki a Glamorgan. E mea ana a Mike Gatting ki te mea he pai te mahi a nga kaitākaro mō Ingarangi kia mau tonu rātau ki to rātau wāhi. I tukuna a Pietersen e Ingarangi i muri i te 2013/14 Ashes Tour.