KP waiting for T20 WC spot

England batsman Kevin Pietersen has several extra days in which to discover if he will be a member of the defending champions World Twenty20 squad.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) had originally made this Saturday their deadline for all teams to announce their final 15-man squads for the tournament in Sri Lanka starting next month.

However, the global governing body announced Thursday they had put this back until Friday, August 24, at the behest of several countries, with England now due to announce their squad on Tuesday.

Pietersen was England's man of the tournament when they won the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean two years ago. AFP