England person appointed erstwhile Ashes-winning batter Kevin Pietersen to their white-ball coaching squad successful the build-up to the 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Pietersen, 46, joins arsenic a specializer mentor and volition commencement successful the relation for the upcoming T20 and one-day matches against Sri Lanka.
He volition besides beryllium progressive successful this winter's tours to Australia and South Africa, earlier joining up with the teams again for the location bid against Pakistan and New Zealand adjacent summer, arsenic good arsenic the 50-over World Cup which is being held successful South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia successful the autumn.
"I've got immense respect for KP and what he's achieved successful the game," said England's white-ball caput manager Brendon McCullum.
"He's had an astonishing interaction connected English cricket, truthful for idiosyncratic with his experience, cognition and stature to privation to play a relation with this squad is simply a fantastic result."
Pietersen is 1 of England's astir palmy white-ball batters, being named subordinate of the tourney erstwhile they won the T20 World Cup for the archetypal clip successful 2010.
The right-hander scored astir 4,500 ODI runs astatine an mean of 41.32 - bettered lone by Joe Root - portion successful T20 cricket helium has the highest mean of each batters to deed much than 1,000 runs for England.
He did, however, autumn retired with a fig of erstwhile England players and coaches during his career.
He was dropped during a Test bid against South Africa successful 2012 for sending "provocative" substance messages to opposing players, for which helium apologised to past skipper Andrew Strauss.
He was lone allowed to instrumentality to the squad aft a palmy 'reintegration' period.
Since retiring, Pietersen has enjoyed a palmy vocation arsenic a commentator and contented creator portion helium has mentored successful the Indian Premier League for Delhi Capitals.
"I americium immensely arrogant to person been asked to assistance this squad connected their travel to triumph a World Cup successful South Africa," said Pietersen.
"Putting connected the England azygous again for the archetypal clip since 2014 is simply a profound honour and a profoundly peculiar moment.
"We person an incredibly talented white-ball squad, and I americium excited to get successful the trenches and enactment relentlessly hard with these players to maximise their potential."
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