KP wants positive play

Skipper keen for his side to be more like Australia

Last updated: 16th November 2008

KP wants positive play

Pietersen: Wants more aggression

We have to be more like the Australians and get in their faces in every aspect of the game - bowling, batting and fielding.

Kevin Pietersen
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England captain Kevin Pietersen wants his team to be more positive in their play when they take on India in the second one-day international on Monday.

His side lost the first ODI by a humiliating 158-runs and the skipper wants no repeat in the game at Indore, which will be screened live on Sky Sports 1 at 3.30am.

The defeat against India came soon after the disappointment of losing the Stanford Twenty20 game and Pietersen believes his players need a more aggressive attitude, like Australia.

His comments echo England coach Peter Moores, who also called for the side to reclaim their aggressive streak after the defeat.

Writing in his column in the News of the World, Pietersen said of the Rajkot defeat: "We were not as aggressive as we usually are and our body language was wrong.

"We have to be more like the Australians and get in their faces in every aspect of the game - bowling, batting and fielding.

Being positive

"It doesn't mean sledging the opposition, it is just a state of mind and means being positive in everything we do - and we didn't do that in the first game.

"It is a case of sticking your chest out, getting into India, really hitting them hard, which we didn't do on Friday and they thrashed us. It was hard to take."

He added: "There is a lot of mediocrity that people settle for in England in terms of the county cricket and the comfort zones of international cricket.

"But I am not one for settling for mediocrity, that is far from my thoughts."