Injury has forced him out of action in the Ashes but Kevin Pietersen will hobble into England's dressing room on the morning of the series-deciding fifth Test for some banter with his teammates.

"I'll be hobbling into the dressing room on Thursday morning for an hour or so to see if the lads are smiling and to let them abuse me for a while," Pietersen quipped in his column for 'The News of the World'.