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Show us the athlete you'd most like to be for one game.
I'd have to be Kevin Pietersen, I'm a huge fan of Alistair Cook as a solid and dependable batsmen, but at the end of the day Pietersen, when on form, is the best in the world and a proven match winner. He has such a good range of shots and seems to thrive on the pressure.
I think his 158 runs in the second innings of the fifth test at the oval in '05 is probably my favourite sports watching memory ever. I remember that fifth morning it looked like it had swung back in Australia's favour. KP came out with Glenn "we'll win this series 5-0" McGrath on a hat trick and they had an early appeal and the pessimist in me said it was a bad sign. Then he just started hitting everything they could bowl at him - by the time he hit Shane Warne back over his head for six it was cloud nine time.
(I apologise in advance to the non-cricket types, which is possibly everyone!)
