article_snippet.sent: Former skipper Strauss (right) says Kevin Pietersen is a 'distraction' for English cricket .
article_snippet.sent: Former skipper Strauss and Pietersen pictured during happier times during the 2011 series with India .
article_snippet.sent: It’s very important for English cricket to move on from the Kevin Pietersen situation,’ said Strauss, who infamously called Pietersen ‘a complete c
article_snippet.sent: *’ on air last season when Former skipper Strauss thought Former skipper Strauss microphone had been switched off.
article_snippet.sent: The story has become more of a distraction than Former skipper Strauss actually playing.
article_snippet.sent: Strauss’s views are as much from a cricketing point of view as a personal one, even though Former skipper Strauss feelings towards Pietersen clearly have not changed.
article_snippet.sent: There were key figures who wanted Former skipper Strauss to take the job when Hugh Morris stood down 18 months ago, not least the Welshman himself, but at that stage Former skipper Strauss felt it was too early for Former skipper Strauss and Former skipper Strauss has dabbled in commentary while not being a natural at it like Nasser Hussain and Atherton.
article_snippet.sent: Pietersen and Vaughan pictured together on England duty at Lord's in 2008 .
article_snippet.sent: The distractions that Strauss talked about, not just those provided by Pietersen, clearly still loom large over an England team who, it should be remembered, won the last three Tests they have played.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Former skipper Strauss says ongoing saga is too much of