More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2012
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Pietersen has been widely praised as one of the best England batsmen of the current era and possibly of all time. But in the first test match he only scored 19. So can England really not do without him? Also why is Zero an even number?
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| 0:50.3 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service, your essential guide to numbers in the news and in life, and I'm Tim Harford. |
| 0:59.0 | This week we'll be asking whether zero is an even number. |
| 1:02.0 | Following this from the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. |
| 1:06.0 | Those with license plates ending in an even number or the number zero will be able to buy gas or diesel only on even number days such as |
| 1:14.8 | Saturday November 10th. But first we're not wants to be churlish here on more or |
| 1:19.6 | less but we're here to ask some hard questions about England cricketer Kevin Peterson |
| 1:24.6 | and the quality of his batting. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm sure he can take it. |
| 1:27.6 | He may be the darling of English cricket, |
| 1:29.6 | but if your life depended on someone scoring a century, would you send Kevin Peterson out to bat? |
| 1:34.8 | Peter Harvey sent us a letter from Perth in Australia to ask us this very question and |
| 1:40.3 | he also says, KP is often like them to Marmite |
| 1:44.0 | love or hate but nothing in between |
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