Strauss joins KP bashing

Former England captain Andrew Strauss was "mortified" and "profusely sorry" after initiating a fresh row regarding Kevin Pietersen by making highly offensive comments about his old Test colleague while broadcasting, he said on Saturday.
Sky Sports commentator Strauss, believing he was off the air in a break in play during the Lord's bicentenary match between MCC and the Rest of the World, reportedly used a particularly obscene epithet to describe Pietersen.
But although Strauss's remarks weren't heard by Sky viewers, they were picked up on an overseas app receiving a continuous feed of the Sky commentary.
Strauss subsequently apologised live on air by saying: "I apologise unreservedly, particularly to Kevin Pietersen. I am mortified and profusely sorry."
His apology came after Sky had issued a brief statement saying: "Earlier comments were made during a break in play which were heard overseas. We apologise for the language used."
Prior to Strauss's apology, celebrity television chat show host Piers Morgan, a close friend of Pietersen, called for him to be sacked if the comments were verified.
"If Strauss story is true then he'll have to be fired, surely? Or is a commentator calling @KP24 a 'c**t' on air acceptable @SkyCricket?
"After all, Strauss himself axed KP from his England team for allegedly saying similar things about him that weren't even broadcast," added Morgan, in a reference to the troubled history between the two one-time team-mates.
Pietersen, after making a match-saving hundred in a Test against his native South Africa at Headingley in 2012, was briefly dropped from the England team after sending text messages said to contain derogatory references to Strauss to Proteas players.