Has Pietersen got Warne covered?

[SWANNIES RULE]

Doesn't seem to be troubled by him, hit numerous boundaries off him with ease. Do you think KP is too good for Warnie?

[Big John]

plays him pretty well and definately better than any other saffer. Pace is the way to get Pietersen.

[Squizza]

I think all that time down at Hampshire has helped a bit as well. Bowling around the wicket in the rough at times had him in a bit of trouble at times though.

[Romeo]

Yes he has, he needs a new plan of attack. He was forced to go defensive and bowl around the wicket which makes it hard to get him out. Apart from the one chance which Gilly ********ed up he was his master. He played him well in the last Ashes series as well. He doesn't fear him and meets fire with fire.

[Cooldude]

He plays Warne as well as Lara and Tendulkar does

Warne has tried bowling outside off to him and he just uses the width to either slog him over midwicket or drive him through cover, then when he bowls at the stumps he is so good he just works him against the spin.

What's more, defensively he's perfect against Warne, too. It's hard to get him at bat-pad the way he hangs his bat way in front of his pad

Warnie has no answer to him, didn't last year and didn't now

[King Elvis]

Warnie will come up with something.

And it doesn't matter how good KP handles Warney, not when Warney is getting all of his partners out, anyway.

[Squizza]

He plays Warne as well as Lara and Tendulkar does

Warne has tried bowling outside off to him and he just uses the width to either slog him over midwicket or drive him through cover, then when he bowls at the stumps he is so good he just works him against the spin.

What's more, defensively he's perfect against Warne, too. It's hard to get him at bat-pad the way he hangs his bat way in front of his pad

Warnie has no answer to him, didn't last year and doesn't now
:thumbsu:

[Cooldude]

:thumbsu:

Why are there people who has this urge of nitpicking someone's grammar on a cricket forum?

[TorresIsGod]

Because they have nothing useful to add into the discussion, and it makes them feel better when they correct someone.

Would you rather a comment like "Warne is God, could get Pietersen out with his eyes closed, Pietersen had a lucky day, he is a really terrible batsman" or someone correcting someones grammar.

In a perfect world, neither of them would happen, but we don't live in a perfect world

[Ice goddess]

He looks like he has but maybe if he had been given out on 44 when he probably bottom-edged the ball we wouldn't be having this discussion.

[ShearMagic9]

He looks like he does. But we all know what KP is like. He will get out to Warne playing a stupid shot

[Alkaline]

He plays Warne well, but Warne is the kind of player that will keep trying new things to get revenge! And thats what he did against Collingwood.

[Ted Ed Fred]

He does appear to have him covered but I wouldn't right Warner off as he is a champion. He was happy to pad him away out of the rough the other day because he knew he had to try to hang on for the draw and runs didn't matter but let's see if he can resist the sweep when England aren't just batting to survive.

[davey_magik]

Let's wait for the end of the series.
Lara, Tendulkar and Laxman are the only players I have ever seen who are never troubled by Warne.

[Romeo]

England scared of Warne?

Thu, 30 Nov 2006

Master leg-spinner Shane Warne believes England remain scared of him despite the tourists' claims he is no longer their nemesis.
Warne has fired back at Duncan Fletcher, claiming the England coach is trying to prop up fragile egos with his comments that the tourists played Test cricket's greatest wicket-taker "very, very well and positively" during their 277-run first Test pounding in Brisbane.
Fletcher said this had been one of the positives to take into the second Test, starting Friday in Adelaide, despite Warne finishing with the second-innings wickets of four of England's top-six batsmen at the Gabba.
"It's a real compliment for me and shows just how worried they are about spin," Warne wrote in his column in Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper Thursday.
"There are no secrets about England — they are searching for positives.
"Duncan is trying to build up a few players who aren't convinced and are really worried about spin.
"Alastair Cook and Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood are obviously worried. I got Bell out as planned — I set him up for a slider exactly the same way as last year (Ashes series)."
Warne said Kevin Pietersen, who thumped 92 in England's second innings, had been the only batsman to trouble him in Brisbane.
"I don't think anything has changed," he said. "For all the talk about how a few of their players had improved, all I can see is the same stuff."
Warne said the Australians had identified the major weaknesses of their opponents and it was now a matter of executing their plans on an Adelaide pitch on which he had experienced great success.
"We know Andrew Strauss is susceptible to the hook shot. We know Cook around the wicket doesn't look very comfortable. We know I am all over Ian Bell and he still can't pick my straight one," he said. "Collingwood is a fighter but he had some luck."
There is little friendliness between Warne and Fletcher, the newspaper said.
Warne felt Fletcher was the man who sparked the rumours during the second Test at Edgbaston last year that Warne had instigated a verbal slanging match with skipper Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist after the Australians had opted to bowl first, it said.
Warne's focus will be on the Adelaide Oval — a ground he has enjoyed playing on, with 51 wickets at 29.19 in 12 Tests.
He took seven English wickets here four years ago, and claimed a second-innings haul of 6-80 against the West Indies last year. Warne has taken 176 of his 689 career Test wickets against England.

[wce4premiership]

warne will come up with something.

[linda]

He does play him better than most but I wouldnt bet against Warne getting him 3-4 times this series