New Delhi, April 30 -- Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has urged the South African team management to get Heinrich Klaasen out of international cricket retirement in their bid to lift the ICC Cricket World Cup 2027 title on home soil.

Klaaasen, having retired from international cricket in June last year, has been going strong in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season with the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). So far, he is the second-highest run-getter this season, with 414 runs in nine innings at an average of 59.14 and a strike rate of 157.41, with four fifties to his name.

Taking to X on Thursday, Pietersen wrote, "South Africa have never won a cricket world cup! There should be a phone call this morning, from the South Afr...