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The 27-year-old has found runs hard to come by in recent times, having not passed 50 in his last ten Test innings, but Moores has given Pietersen his full backing.

He said: "As a coach you want everyone to do well all the time. He's having a tough run and players have tough runs, it happens to the best.

"It happens to good players, but their talent doesn't go away and how he's played in the past will return.

"Napier is the sort of place where he can get himself a big hundred and suddenly you'll look at that and his stats and they'll be back - you don't average 50 and score 2,000 Test runs without being a good player."

Pietersen has scored 3,120 Test runs at an average of 48.75 in 35 matches to date, including ten centuries and ten half-centuries.