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Captain Kevin Pietersen prefers to reveal his line-up day in a advance of matches, but after training at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium he decided to delay his line-up as England search for a winning formula.

"There are a few things were thinking about," confirmed Pietersen. "There are guys who have come on this trip who are raring to go and wanting to play and it's just about making a decision on who the best team is to try and win a Test match and try and play positive cricket."

Since marking the start of his captaincy with victory in the final Test against South Africa at the Oval and winning the subsequent one-day series, Pietersen's England have struggled and lost both the Stanford showdown in Antigua and the one-day series in India 5-0.

Despite dominating the opening Test in Chennai, England also lost that by six wickets after Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten century steered India home on the final day and Pietersen is desperate to avoid returning home from the first half of the winter schedule without winning a major match.

"We haven't won anything for the first part of this winter so it's pretty simple - the lads want to win a Test match, the lads want to win a game for the first time this winter," stressed Pietersen.

"The lads are up for it and are raring to go. I thought the day after the Test would be a quiet day but the boys are fine, the boys are really focused now on doing what they can and not focusing on what's happened in the past."