Owner of Bangalore Royal Challengers Vijay Mallya said he was always keen to get the services of Pietersen as he would add value to the team.
And despite a slowdown, media planners say advertisers are pouring in over Rs 600 crore (nearly half the ad budget for cricket in 2009). This represents a more than 10 per cent increase over last year's spends on television, co-branding of teams and marketing, among others.
Top England stars, including Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, will be available for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) both this year and the next season after the Indian Cricket Board and their English counterparts reached an agreement on Tuesday.
Coach Andy Flower is confident of a boost in England's batting line-up with the return of Kevin Pietersen for the tour of South Africa in November, but has raised doubts over the comeback of Andrew Flintoff into the national team.
Wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose was the only uncapped one-day international player named in England's 14-man squad on Friday for a five-match series and a Twenty20 international against New Zealand.
Nursing a career-threatening knee injury, talismanic England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is afraid that he may not play international cricket again.
Not Stuart Broad but leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who is yet to make his Test debut, is the best bet to fill in England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff's shoes in the five-day format, feels Australian spin legend Shane Warne.
Injury-plagued Andrew Flintoff might have quit Test cricket to prolong his ODI career but the allrounder feels his teammate Steve Harmison, whose future also has been the subject of speculation, has enough fire in his belly to carry on playing for England.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who retired from Test cricket after the fifth and final match of the Ashes Series against Australia, has now set eyes on becoming the best one-day cricketer of the world.
The viability of star English players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff in the February 6 auction might be jeopardised because of the fact that the players have been allowed only a limited period of time to take part in the Indian Premier League, according to reports in London.
Andrew Flintoff rages against the dying of the light for the final time in a Test match this week with his indomitable will no longer able to compensate for the frailties of the flesh.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff expressed full confidence Tuesday that he would be fit for the final Test of his career in the deciding Ashes match against Australia at the Oval this week.
He is not the most professional cricketer around, but former England captain Michael Vaughan says talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is second only to Sachin Tendulkar when it comes to lifting his team and the fans.
Legendary Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson has ruled out any chance of England winning the Ashes urn despite the return of Andrew Flintoff who has been declared fit for his swan song Test.
England's faltering Ashes campaign recieved a fillip after talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was declared fit for his Test farewell in the series-deciding fifth and final match against Australia starting August 20 at The Oval.
England received a welcome boost on Monday with the news that talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is expected to be fit to face Australia in the deciding Ashes Test at the Oval next week. Flintoff, 31, was forced to miss England's emphatic fourth Test innings and 80-run defeat at Headingley last week, which left the series tied at 1-1, because of an injured right knee.
Former captain Andrew Flintoff believes Ben Stokes can become one of England's greats and rates the all-rounder as a more talented player than he was.
Andrew Flintoff rates the Ashes rivalry against Australia as the ultimate for an Englishman, which could not be compensated by playing in any number of IPL or World Cup matches.
Andrew Flintoff's presence loomed large over the Ashes series once again as England seized the initiative in the third Test against Australia on Sunday.
Andrew Flintoff's sparkling 74 was the catalyst as England took control of the third Ashes Test against Australia on Sunday.
India were all out for 453 in their first innings on the second day of the second Test against England in Mohali on Saturday
His Test retirement caught many by surprise, but England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff says his injury-ravaged body had left him with little choice and he quit for the sake of his family. Flintoff said fast bowling had put extreme stress on his body, something he found very hard to deal with.
England captain Andrew Strauss was fined 20 per cent of his match fee after the team was found to have bowled two overs short during its 115-run win over Australia in the second Test at Lord's.
After guiding England to a historic win over Australia in the second Ashes Test at Lord's, retiring all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said regaining the trophy from the clutches of Ricky Ponting's men would be the perfect farewell to his five-day game career.
England won their first Test against Australia at Lord's since 1934 when they defeated the visitors by 115 runs on the final day of the second Ashes Test.
Former captain David Gower is impressed by the persuasion skills of England captain Kevin Pietersen, who convinced his scared teammates to land in Abu Dhabi for the preparation of the Test series against India.
The 31-year-old England all-rounder, who will retire at the end of the Ashes series, will continue to be available for one-day and Twenty20 fixtures.
Sluggish starts have been England's bane in the ongoing ODI series against India and Andrew Flintoff should be asked to open the innings if they are to avoid a whitewash, according to cricketer-turned-commentator Geoffrey Boycott.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said he was not thinking about revenge for the humiliating 5-0 Ashes defeat by Australia in 2006-07.
VVS Laxman played second fiddle to Andrew Flintoff as Lancashire thumped Derbyshire by 56 runs in the Twenty20 Cup in London. Flintoff hammered 93 from 41 balls to hog the limelight but Laxman's 45-ball 63 was no less significant as the duo shared a fourth-wicket stand of 99 to help Lancashire pile up 220 for five, their best ever Twenty20 score.
Andrew Flintoff belted an unbeaten 85-ball 100 to help England win the opening match of their tour of India with an authoritative 122-run victory over the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Sunday.
Out of the game for more than a year because of injury, all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is on the comeback trail with the England Lions in India.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting warned England on Friday they would be taking a gamble if they played a half-fit Andrew Flintoff in the Ashes series starting in Cardiff on July 8. All-rounder Flintoff will miss the ICC World Twenty20 after surgery on a knee injury sustained in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has tipped India as favourites to win the ICC World Twenty20 next month and said the Indian Premier League experience will come in handy for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's boys in their title defence.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out of the World Twenty20 after failing to recover in time from knee surgery. The 31-year-old, who missed the Test and one-day series against West Indies after his latest bout of surgery, is replaced in England's squad by Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who has yet to play a senior international match.
Andrew Flintoff is struggling to be fit for next month's World Twenty20, the England all-rounder said on Saturday.
Andrew Flintoff may not have justified his USD 1.55 million price tag but the star England all-rounder, forced out of the Indian Premier League due to injury, was a "good influence" on the Chennai Super Kings, according to coach Stephen Fleming.
The England all-rounder suffered pain from a torn meniscus in his right knee after playing for the Chennai Super Kings. He will undergo keyhole surgery next week and the ECB said they expected him to be out of action for three to five weeks.
England ended their ragged tour of the West Indies on a high on Friday when an Andrew Flintoff hat-trick helped them beat the hosts by 26 runs in a rain-shortened match in St Lucia to win the one-day series 3-2. Flintoff took five for 19 in his five overs, including the hat-trick in his final over, as England claimed their first one-day series victory in the Caribbean.
South Africa dismissed England for 231 on the first day of the third Test on Wednesday after further failures for captain Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood.
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