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Pietersen rising to Richards challenge?

Martin GoughSt Lucia - Everyone turned up at England training on Thursday morning to cast an eye over Jimmy Anderson, but they paid the price if they didn’t keep an eye on Kevin Pietersen.

Anderson is this week’s injury doubt, leading up to England’s World Cup opener against New Zealand, and that doubt persisted into another day as he got through an extensive fitness test, reportedly “without discomfort”.

That’s not what it looked like from the boundary edge, as the view through my binoculars showed him fiddling regularly with the strapping around the fractured knuckle on the little finger of his right hand.

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