Kevin Pietersen points the way for England new boy Craig Kieswetter in Bangladesh

By Derek Pringle in Dhaka, Bangladesh Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

Taking the strain: newly England-qualified batsman Craig Kieswetter acknowledges that he is going to have to work on being entirely supposed by the open Photo: PA

Like Pietersen, Kieswetter"s cricketing skills were fake on South Africa"s intelligent suburban cricket fields. But if personification for England is one thing, being supposed by the people is utterly another, and for that his bat contingency verbalise louder than his accent a pretence Pietersen has nonetheless to lift off completely.

"I had a good discuss with KP over breakfast about what he"d finished and what I"ve finished to get here," pronounced Kieswetter yesterday, twenty-four hours after England overwhelmed down in Bangladesh. "It was a chilled-out discuss but not being entirely supposed by the open is something I"m probably going to have to be rebuilt for my total career."

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As with Pietersen, Kieswetter is the children of an Afrikaner father and British mother, the latter hailing from Edinburgh. Her change and that of her kin resulted in the Kieswetters holidaying annually in Blighty, the trips creation a lasting sense on the immature Craig, who claims his devotion was fake by them and the year he outlayed at Millfield School in Somerset.

"Being innate with both passports put me in a advantageous position," Kieswetter admitted. "My mom is British and I lived a integrate of months each year in the UK on vacation my mother"s family. I"ve regularly desired the country, the enlightenment and the people.

"I"m unapproachable to be an English person. I"m additionally unapproachable to be here as piece of the England side and I"m seeking brazen to this two-week debate of Bangladesh."

The fervour might be genuine even if his expression, "an English person", suggests the jargon stays unfamiliar to him. He additionally stays unrelenting that he was never tempted by Graeme Smith"s new call in to lapse to South African cricket, the substantial idea being that there would roughly positively be a mark in the Test and one-day teams once Mark Boucher retired.

"Being tempted behind to fool around in South Africa has never been a regard for me at all," Kieswetter said. "I changed to England 4 years ago and have never deliberate relocating back. It"s not a domestic thing or a share thing. Basically, when I became eighteen and a authorised adult [he is right away 22], I motionless that England is where I longed for to live and have my future. I"m unequivocally chuffed to be piece of the set-up."

Somebody in the set-up is obviously tender with him too. To be combined to England"s one-day patrol at such short notice is an surprising move from the selectors. But whilst his 81 off 61 balls for the England Lions opposite the initial group last week in Abu Dhabi was probably the clincher, his astonishing preference has left him wanting to steal the suitable debate wardrobe from team-mates.

Although he keeps wicket for Somerset the main captivate for England lies in Kieswetter"s clean, clever round striking. As a one-day opener, he has been propitious to sense at the alternative finish from an concurred master in Marcus Trescothick, with whom he stays in close touch.

Much of England"s craziness in one-day cricket has stemmed from sickly starts with the bat and Kieswetter is seen as a manly remedy to that. While it stays to be seen either he can attain in the pinch-hitting purpose where majority have failed, his late inclusion equates to that a total host of players trimming from Alastair Cook, the behaving captain, to Andrew Strauss, the blank captain, Joe Denly, Jonathan Trott and Matt Prior, will feel the need to whet their game. A violent Kieswetter threatens them all.

His initial possibility to stir comes in today"s 50-over use compare opposite a Bangladesh Cricket Association side, in that he will open but not keep wicket. Taking value of the early powerplays is not simply a make a difference of giving the round a whack, as so most personification the pinch-hitting purpose for England have done.

The consequential member is a ease mind that does not stoop to vigour when the scoring dries up, something else Kieswetter is happily pronounced to possess. He will need it too, for the delayed pitches here are expected to revoke the series of scoring areas as compared to the nearby 360-degree widespread offering to batsmen by a true, fast aspect similar to Taunton.

If he succeeds, he could yield the blank couple England have lacked given Trescothick"s unhappy shelter from the general theatre 3 years ago, and spin the one-day group in to critical contenders for May"s World Twenty20 as well as subsequent year"s World Cup.