<p>Pietersen left the tournament before England’s final Super Eight match and raced back to London to be with his wife Jessica Taylor, a former singer with British band Liberty X, for the birth of the couple’s first child.<br /><br />A spokesman said the baby, whose name has not yet been announced, was born without complication and the new addition to the family and his mother were doing well.<br /><br />“This really is the most amazing experience of my life,” said the 29-year-old cricketer.<br />He plans to stay with his wife, also 29, for a couple of days before returning to the West Indies to continue playing in the tournament.<br /><br />Despite the absence of their star batsman, England still managed to knock New Zealand out of the World Twenty20 with a three-wicket Super Eights win in St Lucia on Monday.</p>
<p>Pietersen left the tournament before England’s final Super Eight match and raced back to London to be with his wife Jessica Taylor, a former singer with British band Liberty X, for the birth of the couple’s first child.<br /><br />A spokesman said the baby, whose name has not yet been announced, was born without complication and the new addition to the family and his mother were doing well.<br /><br />“This really is the most amazing experience of my life,” said the 29-year-old cricketer.<br />He plans to stay with his wife, also 29, for a couple of days before returning to the West Indies to continue playing in the tournament.<br /><br />Despite the absence of their star batsman, England still managed to knock New Zealand out of the World Twenty20 with a three-wicket Super Eights win in St Lucia on Monday.</p>