Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has criticized Tom Banton for wasting his away opportunities to score big knocks in the ongoing The Hundred. Banton is seen as the future prospect by England but he hasn’t done anything noteworthy on any given opportunity and that is troubling Pietersen.

Banton is playing for Welsh Fire in the ongoing The Hundred and has been scoring pretty 30’s regularly. However, converting those starts into a match-winning knock hasn’t happened yet from his bat.

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“He has all the talent but at the moment, he is wasting it. He hits way too many balls in the air. He needs to learn to hit the ball along the ground, learn to hit extra-cover hard, mid-wicket hard. Know there are gaps between fielders,” Pietersen told Sky Sports.

In the last five games in The Hundred competition, Banton has scored 36, 0, 5, 2, and 15. Pietersen urged him to learn from Virat Kohli and David Warner.

“You have to look at the best players around the world. How often do they think, ‘let me just hit it in the air, my release shot is a six’?” Pietersen further added.

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“Virat Kohli, David Warner – look at all the players starring at the top of the innings. They hit extra-cover on the ground for four. How often do you see Kohli hitting sixes all over at the start of his innings? Banton needs to learn from others and keep the ball on the ground, know there are gaps between fielders. [Going for sixes] is not the gaps he needs to go at.”

Pietersen, further, advised Banton can learn from Welsh Fire skipper James Vince how to construct big innings.