BBL playerOverseas2014-15 to 2017-18
KP Pietersen
Right-handed bat · Right-arm off-break
KP Pietersen, a batter, played four BBL seasons, all of them with Melbourne Stars.
The arrival
KP Pietersen's first BBL season was 2014-15, with Melbourne Stars.
That first season brought 8 matches and 293 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2014-15, for Melbourne Stars: 293 runs at an average of 36.6, striking at 119.1 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 122.3, with 3 fifties, and a highest score of 67 not out.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2015-16: 239 runs at a strike rate of 153.2, 26 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
One club
KP Pietersen spent the whole BBL career with Melbourne Stars, from 2014-15 to 2017-18.
How the runs came
Across the career, KP Pietersen struck at 131.4. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.8, so KP Pietersen scored about 6 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 55% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 92 fours and 32 sixes.
The legacy
KP Pietersen made 31 BBL appearances, the last for Melbourne Stars in 2017-18.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 (BBL|04) | Melbourne Stars | 8 | 293 | 67* | 36.6 | 119.1 | 3/0 | 0 | 10.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2015-16 (BBL|05) | Melbourne Stars | 7 | 239 | 74 | 39.8 | 153.2 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Melbourne Stars | 8 | 268 | 73 | 38.3 | 124.7 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Melbourne Stars | 8 | 226 | 74 | 28.3 | 137.8 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Melbourne Stars: 2014-15 to 2017-18
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics