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"The first thing he has to do if he wants to get back is start playing county cricket. If he does that and then comes out and scores a lot of runs they can't ignore him I would have thought, but that is up to him. The selectors and the coaches are not going to pick him if he's not playing. It's as simple as that. I'll leave it at that," Graves, who will take over from Giles Clarke in May, said.Pietersen's England career was brought to an end and his contract was terminated by ECB after England's humiliating 5-0 whitewash in the 2013-14 Ashes series Down Under. Pietersen then further incensed England's bosses and his former teammates by claiming that there was a 'bullying culture' prevalent in the national team. He made these comments in his autobiography titled 'KP - The Autobiography'.Kevin Pietersen, who attracted an eye-catching Rs nine-crore bid for the 2014 IPL, was bought for his base price of Rs 2 by when Sunrisers Hyderabad. He was to partner Eoin Morgan at Sunrisers, who picked up the current England captain for just Rs 1.5 crore.