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
biggest challenge next night survive
My next biggest challenge is to survive another night with Freddie.
few next order
That's the order you are going to see for the next few matches.
assure home lift next ourselves performance poor prepare taking thoughts tomorrow travel tuesday
Thoughts of going home won't be taking over my thoughts I can assure you. We have a travel day tomorrow and prepare on Tuesday for Wednesday's match. It was a poor performance and we have to lift ourselves for the next one.
enjoy few given next thrown
What is most important is we enjoy what is given to us and thrown at us over the next few weeks,
bowling confident india next plane start test
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.
monitor next tested wednesday yesterday
I had an injection on Wednesday night, tested it at nets yesterday and am going to monitor it over the next 48 hours.
early effect knee light net next responds test today wait whether
I had a light net today to test out the knee but it is still too early to say whether the injection has had an effect and we will just have to wait and see how it responds over the next 48 hours.
again beaten leading next team
If you've beaten the leading team once, you can beat them again -- that's the next challenge.
call coach likes sent whether
Whether or not he was sent in by their coach I'm not too sure. But I just call him 'the witness' now and I don't think he likes it.
batting below concern games looking par win
We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.
bit forward looking opportunity pushing sure
We are looking forward to the challenge. If we can keep pushing a little bit further, I am sure we can get another opportunity to win.
areas chat cover game good home knows last normal options played reverse year
We want to have a good long chat with Freddie. It's his home ground, he knows the conditions. Over the last year or so we haven't played that much here. We want to look at the options - normal swing, reverse swing, bounce, all the areas you cover at any game of cricket. We'll just have a good chat this afternoon.
bound debut difficult faced fast hear until
We hear he's fast but we haven't faced him. Until you've faced someone it's very difficult to know how you'll respond. It's his debut and he's bound to be nervous.
certainly played series throughout win
We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again,