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Kevin Petersen has been a superb batsman holding more than an average of 50 in Test Cricket and over 40 in ODI Cricket. Also, Kevin Peitersen is a tricky off-spin bowler, who deceives the batsmen with his off-breaks. After reading Kevin Piterson biography on this Kevin Petersen, you don't have to go to other sites.

Below mentioned is a snapshot of Kevin Peitersen biography:

Name: Kevin Peter Pietersen
Born: June 27, 1980
Born in: Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Father name: Jannie
Mother name: Penny
Nickname: KP, Kapes, KP nuts, Kapers
Height: 6"4
Batting style: Right Handed
Bowling style: Right arm off break
Shirt no: 24
Present County: Hampshire
Other teams: Nottinghamshire, Royal Challengers Bangalore, MCC, KwaZulu Natal

Kevin Peitersen has scored Test centuries against many international teams like South Africa, Australia, India and Pakistan etc. Kevin Petersen has been one of the most devastating batsmen in ODI cricket and the rate at which he scores runs in ODIs against some of the best bowing attacks in the world is really amazing.

A brief history of Kevin Piterson:

As it is known that Kevin Piterson is a South African born cricketer and later, he moved to England to pursue his international cricket career, as he was declared a 'misfit' for South African team. Due to his mother's native country being England, he got the right to represent England. The real reason behind Kevin Petersen exit from South Africa is that he criticized South Africa's quota system in media and preferred to play for England. Kevin Peitersen is still the fastest batsmen to reach 1,000 and 2,000 international runs and has the highest average among the English players, who have played more than 20 innings. Before being picked for English national side, he had to serve a qualifying period of 4 years. Kevin Piterson still holds the record of having scored fastest 4,000 runs (in terms of days) and also, he has still the second-highest run total from the first 25 Test matches, behind all time batting legend Sir Donald Bradman. English daily The Times called him "the most complete batsman in cricket" in 2007, when he scored a Test century against South Africa. Even the spin bowling legend and a close friend of Kevin Petersen, Shane Warne said that he does not see any obvious flaw in the technique of this batsman.

Few people know that Kevin Peitersen has also played cricket for his province team in South Africa, KwaZulu Natal and the 'B' team of KwaZulu Natal province. Also, many doesn't know that Kevin Piterson actually pursue to become an off-spinner, rather than a batsman; it was just lack of bowling opportunities that Kevin Petersen actually concentrated to became a batsman. It is a heart breaking fact for his female fans that Kevin Peitersen is married to Liberty X singer Jessica Taylor. Kevin Piterson married Jessica on 29th December 2007 at the Manor House Hotel in Castle Combe, Wiltshire.