10 interesting facts about Kevin Pietersen

#5 Test debut in Ashes 2005

Pietersen made his Test debut against Australia at Lord’s in 2005, where he made his way into the history books by hitting back-to-back half-centuries: 8th Englishman to hit consecutive fifties in a Test match and 4th debutant to become the highest scorer in both the innings of a Test for England.

He had scores of 57 and 64* in his team’s tally of 155 and 180 in the two innings.

He scored his first Test hundred in the final Test match of the series, where his 158 helped England reclaim the Ashes after having won it previously way back in 1986.