South Africa`s cricket skipper Graeme Smith has said that England’s new leader Kevin Pietersen should be given at least half a year to show his leadership capabilities. “Kevin Pietersen will not experience much of the pressures right now. He will be tested in the coming time and in the next couple of series. This will be the time when he will start to understand what captaining a team and getting a side to play for you is all about. It will be exciting for him to learn,” Graeme Smith said this before the last test starting at Oval.” KP will be extremely excited and tense, and he will have a lot of energy for this game. It’s simple to make one-off decisions when you know that it doesn’t actually matter in this Test. But after six months from now, can you maintain the team you desire to play and the brand of cricket you want to see from your team? That will be the time of pressure,” added Smith.
It was the excellent century that made Michael Vaughan resign the captaincy, and from there a chain of events have begin and will terminate when KP will walk for the toss on Thursday at Oval.
“I will speak one thing that the captaincy of England will definitely make KP think twice about playing an aggressive shot like he usually play,” Smith said.

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