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Summary English cricketer Kevin Pietersen felicitated his teammates on their selection as captains.
Former skipper Kevin Pietersen was left among the ranks after England took the bold step of announcing separate Test, one-day and Twenty20 captains.Congratulating his teammates and new captains in his post on a social website, the hard hitting batsman said that it was a new era for English team where young captains were adequate choice. Test skipper Andrew Strausss decision to quit one-day internationals created a vacancy but England gave the 50-over leadership to Alastair Cook, his opening partner in the five-day game and long identified as a future England captain, rather than revert to Pietersen.Ashes star Cooks elevation had been widely trailed, despite his not considered being a good enough one-day batsman to be selected for the recent World Cup where a stuttering England suffered a 10-wicket quarterfinal thrashing by eventual runners-up Sri Lanka.But England sprung a surprise by announcing fast bowler Stuart Broad would succeed Paul Collingwood as captain of their world champion Twenty20 side.
