There's a new KP making waves in SA cricket and he's nothing like the rumbustious Pietermaritzburg KP (Kevin Pietersen) who divided opinion in his storied cricket career.
This KP (Keegan Petersen) is short of stature, quiet of words but very big on runs, especially this season for the Knights.
There's an acknowledgement from the 25-year-old from Paarl that the national team batting queue has been lengthened significantly this season.
Not that it worries him. After all, he tallied 923 runs in nine matches at an average of 61.53 in the Four-Day Franchise Series.
He could have added to his mountain of runs but the Highveld's rather wet 2019 summer washed out the Knights and Titans game in Benoni last month.
"What I've done well this season is convert the 40s and 50s into big hundreds. If you want to score 900 to 1,000 runs in a season, that's what you have to do. You have to score 150-plus runs to progress to that stage," Petersen said.
"I'm chuffed about this season but one has to keep improving so I'll start next season on a clean slate. I have to try to repeat, or even improve on this season. I just want to add more runs to my game if it doesn't sound clichéd but I also want to learn something new every day."
While Petersen scored the bulk of his runs in the second half of the season after having to watch his franchise captain Pite van Biljon blaze the early season trail, it was the second time in a SA First-Class season that Petersen scored more than 900 runs.
Petersen's breakout season was in 2013/14 when he scored 965 runs at 48.25 for Boland in the Cricket SA Three-Day Provincial Challenge.
He ended up winning CSA's Three-Day player of the year award.
Petersen's three-day run total has only been topped by the Malan brothers Pieter (1,069 runs in 2016/17) and Janneman (1,046 runs in 2017/18).
Zubayr Hamza, who made his Test debut last month, scored 116 runs less than Petersen when he was three-day top run scorer in the 2015/16 season.
These players are established at the Cape Cobras but Petersen had to make the 1,000km trek up to Bloemfontein to make his franchise statement.
He has no beef with the Cobras but he saved his best for them this season when he scored 161 and 165 not out in Bloemfontein.
"I just switched on against the Cobras because they're my home franchise and for some or other reason, I've always got a point to prove against them. I can't tell you why but in that game I just switched on. I just went on from there. It was a mental switch that I made," Petersen said.
"That 2013/14 season was a good one because it showed my career was heading in the right direction. I was really starting to learn my game a bit better and I was working with the likes of Andrew Puttick and Justin Ontong and the older guys at the Cape Cobras. I realised I still had a long way to go."
Being a product of Hoerskool New Orleans, there was an expectation on Petersen to take up rugby.
His acceleration through the Boland age-group ranks that saw him make his first-class debut at 18 put paid to that and his father's dreams of him being a rugby player. However, Petersen said his parents are far from disappointed by the fact that he took to cricket.
"My dad will kill me for saying this but I think I'm the best sportsman in the family. He was big into rugby and he was miles better at cricket than he was in rugby. My dad's side of the family are all rugby and my mom's side is cricket. I basically grew up with cricket and it was always in their faces," Petersen chuckled...