Kevin Pietersen earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Kevin Pietersen is a cricket commentator, conservationist, and former England international cricket player.
He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off-spin bowler who played in all three formats for England between 2005 and 2014, which included a brief tenure as captain.
Pietersen was born to an Afrikaner father and an English mother in South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 and moved to England in 2000, after voicing his displeasure at what he said was the racial quota system in South African cricket.
He was eligible for the England team so long as he first served a four-year qualifying period in English county cricket. Pietersen was called up by England almost immediately after he completed four years with Nottinghamshire.
Pietersen made his international debut in the One Day International (ODI) match against Zimbabwe in 2004 and his Test match debut in the 2005 Ashes series against Australia.
After the second Test against South Africa during the latter’s tour of England in the summer of 2012, in which Pietersen scored his 21st Test century (149) and took Test-best bowling figures (3–52), Pietersen suggested that the third and final Test of that series might be his last.
In 2019, BBC Radio 5 Live featured Pietersen in the Beast of Man podcast. The program profiled his role in combating illegal poaching, particularly that of rhinoceros.