The cricketer’s revelation that he may build himself available to play for South Africa again will delight any selectors who never gave up hope of renationalising the KP industry“Before I met Jeanine,” Spinal Tap’s David St Hubbins once reflected, “my life was cosmically a shambles. I was using bits and pieces of whatever eastern philosophy would drift through my transom.”I imagine Kevin Pietersen was much the same before settling down himself, or in the years when he was spiritually advised by the discredited former Hampshire maharishi Shane Warne and his ilk. But to follow Kevin’s social media output these days is to feel much of the same easy serenity and self-awareness that characterised St Hubbins. In the metaphorical airport bookshop of our lives,Pietersen’s coordinates area him midway between the third-tier business manuals and the intellect Body Spirit section.
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Source: theguardian.com