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KP blames batsmen for loss
Kevin Pietersen blamed England's batsmen for their 51-run defeat to New Zealand in the fifth ODI.
The loss at Lord's consigned England to a 3-1 series defeat, and Pietersen was far from impressed with his own display as well as that of his team-mates in his first match as stand-in captain.
"We've got ourselves in a position to win matches with our bowlers but our batting has let us down," he said.
"Consistency is the word we're after. You can't play exceptional cricket and then not play well for two weeks.
"You can't afford to get 20s, 30s, 40s, they don't win series, hundreds do and that's where we let ourselves down.
"I haven't batted well in the last couple of weeks. We always strive to get better but it just didn't happen.
"There haven't been enough hundreds. When we beat that great Indian side last year we got three hundreds.
"We got a pretty decent start but we keep losing wickets."
