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He may have only just been named England’s one-day and test cricket captain but, such is the English mentality, you can already bet on Kevin Pietersen to fall short in the job.

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Paying further testament to Old Blighty’s inherent pessimism is the fact KP is favourite to fail and is just 1/6 with bet365 not to be as successful as out going test skipper Michael Vaughan. Ladbrokes have gone as far as to offer a market on when he will leave the post. 12/1 before the end of the year is a least somewhat optimistic but favourite is anytime in 2009 which is 2/1. Actually to be fair to the ‘magic sign’ that’s not a bad bet. With the Aussies coming to town for an Ashes series next summer a repeat of the whitewash suffered by England in the last series between the two would put pressure on the South African born captain especially if result have gone badly previously.

England’s longest serving modern day test leader was Michael Atherton who was in charge for a massive 54 tests and Skybet think that’s well beyond Pietersen offering 33/1 that he will surpass that feat.

Of course KP takes over as one-day skipper too but I’m afraid the bookies are just as uninspired on his captaincy in the shorter version of the game too. The big hitter is16/1 to break Nasser Hussain’s record of captaining England for 56 ODI matches.