Despite Kevin Pietersen's best efforts at county level, his England cricket career is very much in cold storage.
With "trust issues" prompting team director Andrew Strauss to continue freezing out the South African-born batsman, BBC County Cricket broadcaster and writer Lizzy Ammon told Off The Ball that the effects of Pietersen's book are still being felt.
"He is clearly a very difficult character. He wrote a book that effectively burned his bridges," said Ammon.
"He was deeply unpleasant about Matt Prior, Peter Moores and about Andy Flower. He was fairly respectful about Andrew Strauss, given the history of what he'd texted about him - and the word he'd used about him on the text and Andy of course retaliated and caught on mic calling him a different word - but the book was pretty vitriolic about the whole England setup. Some of it was fair comment but it was a book in time to come, Kevin might regret."
Ammon described Strauss's decision to offer Pietersen a spot on an advisory panel as "bizarre" despite the current standoff.
"It's like asking your ex-boyfriend to choose your new boyfriend for you. It's just bizarre and the thing with Kevin Pietersen is the last thing him you want him to do is talk. You want him to bat, but you don't want him to open his mouth because that's when all the problems start."
