• KP slams Rabada ban

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    Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen is glad he no longer has to play Test cricket again after Kagiso Rabada’s two-match ban.

    In a series of tweets, ‘KP’ made his feelings known after Rabada was found guilty of making contact with an opponent during the second Test at St George’s Park.

    ‘SICK & TIRED of sledging chat still going on! It’s TEST cricket. You’re not going to stop it! Red-blooded males going head to head in a sporting arena. Tempers will flare! Let them sort it out themselves! They’re all big boys!’ the Pietermaritzburg-born cricketer wrote to his 3.65 million followers on the social network.

    ‘I’m pretty happy not to be playing Test cricket when you scream a couple times with passion, give a few sends off & then get banned! My baptism into Test cricket in 2005 was a WHOLE lot worse! And, that’s what made it fun, competitive & separated men from boys!’

    Pietersen himself was no stranger to controversy in his heyday and nearly came to blows with Mitchell Johnson during the first Ashes Test in 2009. The two no longer follow each other on Twitter.

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