Michael Vaughan
Michael Vaughan
Michael Paul Vaughan OBEis a retired cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England. A classically elegant right-handed batsman and occasional off-spinner, Vaughan was ranked one of the best batsmen in the world following the 2002/03 Ashes, in which he scored 633 runs, including three centuries. Vaughan was an opening batsman and forged a successful England partnership with Marcus Trescothick, though he often batted in the middle order for England. He was the captain of the England team when they regained the...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth29 October 1974
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The real test will come when I start running, twisting and bowling but I am confident I will be on the plane for India next month.
both draws manner teams
There are not many draws between these two teams because of the manner in which both play the game.
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We've not won here for 21 years, that should come as an incentive to the boys.
huge motivation proved
It proved a huge motivation for the team,
hope time
It's nonsense. I hope to play for a long time yet.
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For James to bowl as well as he did on his debut was fantastic. It was a good a toss to win, but we exploited the conditions fantastically.
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For everyone's good it's important that I get it sorted and come back fit and strong in the summer.
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It's the second time in two tours that I'm going to be traveling home with an injury. This one is really similar to the one in Pakistan. Unfortunately the workload has increased on this trip and the knee hasn't withstood that. It's time to go back and see the specialist, do whatever we can and make sure I come back fitter.
lose obviously
It's obviously disappointing to lose Giles who is our most experienced spinner.
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It's the first net and it was nice to pick up a bat again. It's early days and I'm just getting used to jogging again. I'm just hoping for a bit of luck now.
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That's a big loss, he's bowled extremely well. It's very hard to find a like-for-like replacement for Simon because of the way he's bowled. He's probably up there with the best in the world at this minute,
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It's very hard to find a like for like replacement for Simon because the way's he's bowling, he's right up there with the best in the world at the moment.
bat difficult score
That kind of score is difficult to chase, if you are set 220 it is different - you just bat time,
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It's never happened before, we're pretty pleased with the 11 that's played for us in the games so far. Over the last few years, Australia has had an 11 they play very, very regularly. If they change it, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing. We'll just have to wait and see.