'Broke all bones': Taylor Swift's hilarious mix-up resurfaces; Kevin Pietersen teases pop star

Pop icon Taylor Swift once admitted to being baffled by cricket during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, where she shared the couch with former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen. The exchange, which aired in 2014, resurfaced for the singer’s candid and light-heartedly hilarious remarks about the sport. At the time, Pietersen was promoting his autobiography KP: The Autobiography, which revisited the infamous “textgate” controversy of 2012. The former England batter faced pointed questions from Norton about sending provocative messages to members of the South African team during a Test series, a scandal that tainted his relationship with then-captain Andrew Strauss. While the discussion turned serious for Pietersen, Swift admitted she was still trying to wrap her head around the game. “I’ve never been to a cricket match,” she confessed, before adding, “But I went to Lord’s today.” Pietersen jumped at the chance to tease her. “If you Google ‘cricket’, you will get a result that ‘Lord’s is the home of cricket.’ So Taylor walked through the door at Lord’s, and said: ‘Cricket, of course I know who you are’. ‘No, you don’t! You don’t know what cricket is!’” he joked. Swift defended herself, describing her limited understanding of the sport. “I know what cricket is. I know it’s relatively violent,” she said, drawing laughter from the audience. She went on to explain where the impression came from. “In an episode of the popular sitcom Friends, Ross Geller is dating an English girl, and in a scene Ross joins his girlfriend’s friends in a game of cricket. He tries to play and he breaks all the bones in his body! It’s wild,” Swift recalled. To this, the host Graham Norton responded with amusement: “Wasn’t that rugby?” Swift too, accepted that she got the two mixed up with an awkward smile on her face.