Is time running out for Pietersen?

There seems to be no end in sight yet for Kevin Pietersen’s downward spiral, writes Scyld Berry in the Telegraph. His efforts to regain form in South Africa yielded just 36 runs in a high-scoring game and zero - leg-before second ball - in a low-scoring one.

Time is slipping away, therefore, and with it Pietersen’s self-belief. He could still have a great winter, and add the Ashes and the World Cup to England’s World Twenty20 crown. But with every month that passes, and with every team that he represents in his search for form, it becomes slightly less likely that he will meet his appointment with greatness - to become the first indisputably great England cricketer since Ian Botham - which seemed to be his destiny when he first dazzled with his derring-do, his flamingo shots and his switch-hits.