‘Pietersen,Strauss,Flower need marriage counselor’

A Guardian has said that there's was not like a normal marriage but an extreme version of one.

The relationship of Kevin Pietersen with England captain Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower is like a marriage breakdown,and in need of a counsellor.

“There is an advertisement currently showing on television,I think to do with TV licences,that in the space of 30 seconds gives a potted timeline,a speeded-up rush of a marriage from meeting to divorce,rather like the old footage of London to Brighton by train in four minutes,” writes Guardians cricket correspondent Mike Selvey.

“Watching this,it struck me that it is a metaphor of sorts for the current mess and impasse in which the England cricket team finds itself with Kevin Pietersen.

“The relationship between them,love blossoming one glorious day at The Oval seven years ago,has so broken down that at the moment,having gone through everything else there is to argue about,they are fighting over the record collection. Next stop the divorce courts and decrees.”

He said this is not like a normal marriage but an extreme version of one that might occasionally still be found in Salt Lake City,The Guardian reports.

“Each player in a cricket team,especially one that now embraces central contracts,so they are thrown together for longer periods than they ever are with their families (this winter,I have been told by one member of the support staff that,from the moment he leaves for Sri Lanka next month until he returns from New Zealand at the end of March,he will spend precisely 10 days at home),is in effect wedded polygamously to the other members of the team. In this regard Pietersen is no different.”

Pietersen is expected to meet Strauss and Flower later this week in a bid to take the first steps in resolving their differences.