<p>“I’m not very good at Twenty20 cricket, am I?” Pietersen said on the eve of the World T20 Championships in England.<br /><br />“The more you play T20 cricket, the better you become and I haven’t played a lot of it, and I’m not very good at it,” he was quoted as saying by The Mirror.<br /><br />Pietersen, who was not a part of the inaugural edition of IPL, played only six matches in IPL II in South Africa and has made just one T20 50 for England, averaging 26.<br /><br />Pietersen disclosed he had developed new theories to suit his batting to the quickest format of the game.<br /><br />“The more I play it though, the more I’ll catch up with my records in Test and one-day cricket definitely. I just know that I will get much better at it. I’ve worked out some new theories about how to go about my batting in T20 and that will make a difference, hopefully starting next week,” he said.<br /><br />The 28-year-old ex-England captain, who failed to impress as the Royal Challengers Bangalore captain in IPL, said he loved the experience. “I made a great captain, didn’t I?” Pietersen said in a lighter vein. “We won two out of six when I was there and then Anil Kumble took over and they got to the final.”<br /><br />He sought to explain the reason behind gaffes like not knowing the names of his RCB team members even at the time of toss in the IPL.<br /><br />“To captain the side four days after arriving and not knowing what some of the guys did and not knowing most of their names made it a huge task for me. I wasn’t as focused on my batting as I was on trying to learn guys’ names and what they did,” he said.</p>
<p>“I’m not very good at Twenty20 cricket, am I?” Pietersen said on the eve of the World T20 Championships in England.<br /><br />“The more you play T20 cricket, the better you become and I haven’t played a lot of it, and I’m not very good at it,” he was quoted as saying by The Mirror.<br /><br />Pietersen, who was not a part of the inaugural edition of IPL, played only six matches in IPL II in South Africa and has made just one T20 50 for England, averaging 26.<br /><br />Pietersen disclosed he had developed new theories to suit his batting to the quickest format of the game.<br /><br />“The more I play it though, the more I’ll catch up with my records in Test and one-day cricket definitely. I just know that I will get much better at it. I’ve worked out some new theories about how to go about my batting in T20 and that will make a difference, hopefully starting next week,” he said.<br /><br />The 28-year-old ex-England captain, who failed to impress as the Royal Challengers Bangalore captain in IPL, said he loved the experience. “I made a great captain, didn’t I?” Pietersen said in a lighter vein. “We won two out of six when I was there and then Anil Kumble took over and they got to the final.”<br /><br />He sought to explain the reason behind gaffes like not knowing the names of his RCB team members even at the time of toss in the IPL.<br /><br />“To captain the side four days after arriving and not knowing what some of the guys did and not knowing most of their names made it a huge task for me. I wasn’t as focused on my batting as I was on trying to learn guys’ names and what they did,” he said.</p>