Kevin Pietersen impresses as TV pundit while England international career decomposes There was lots of fiddling, with the pen and paper in front of him, which he also used to jot down the odd idea, underscoring one with the same relish that Jonathan Trott marks his guard at the crease. Whatever his killer point, he never got to make it, the programme's anchorman under utilising their new star in favour of some touch-screen gizmo operated by the hyperactive Dermot Reeve. But then T20 has always been a format for the restless. Pietersen even cracked a witty joke, or at least he thought so given the cheesy smile that followed. There was no humour in the statement released on Tuesday by his management though, which was emphatic in its claim that while Kevin Pietersen MBE had bent to find a resolution to the problems between him and the team, the England and Wales Cricket Board had proved inflexible. There had been talk that the pow-wow between him and team's management and Alastair Cook, the new Test captain, had been progressing well, but it looks like any advances have reverted to the nadir in relations that first prevailed in the aftermath of the Headingley Test in early August. With intransigence from his employers setting in, one can only surmise that there are either a raft of problems the media and public are not aware of and the extra sticking points they provide have slowed progress, or the senior figures in the team find his behaviour too unstable to be trusted. Either way a stubborn stalemate appears to have emerged. If matters don't improve, there is always a TV career to contemplate which on yesterday's evidence got off to a steady if unspectacular start, a bit like the genesis of his international career back in 2004 before the South Africans wound him up and awoke the beast within.