Kevin Pietersen gets his own mobile cricket game

Here's a thing: a South African-born cricketer who plays for England now has his own mobile game made by a French publisher. That's cosmopolitan!

And no, we're not going to make any xenophobic jokes about Paris-headquartered Gameloft's suitability to tackle a cricket game.

The publisher has a sparkling sporting record after all, with football, tennis and golf games. And besides, the idea of poking fun at a French firm's cricketing knowledge is as ridiculous as questioning the Pocket Gamer team's ninja Pétanque skills.

Anyway. Gameloft hasn't said much about how Kevin Pietersen Pro Cricket 2007 will play, other than that it's coming out this month, will suit short bursts and longer sessions of play, and will have graded difficulty levels to suit cricketing nuts and newbies alike.

Forget the imminent cricket World Cup: mobile is going to see a slogfest of its own, as Gameloft's game goes head-to-head with Glu's Brian Lara International Cricket 2007, and Player One's games based on Michael Vaughan and Freddie Flintoff.

Will KP be up to the task? Click 'Track It!' for a real snorter of a delivery when we review it. That's an email, by the way.