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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We have a good idea of what they're going to come up with, we've got a lot of footage and a lot of players have played against them.
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We've got players who haven't played in the subcontinent and it does take a while to get used to the surreal conditions out there,
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It's been an emotional summer of cricket, fantastic for the game. I can't praise the players and management enough.
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I'm sure there will come a stage where the players would like to hear a different voice and like to have a different direction. I'll stay for as long as they want me.
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You have to keep building and it's so important we keep getting young players pushing the team and making sure everybody stays honest,
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Cricket has captured the imagination of the nation, this if fantastic, beyond a dream. When England players win at any sport, the fans are the best in the world.
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This is probably the first time the knee has felt like a concern. I'm very optimistic and enthusiastic about the game of cricket, so I'm certainly not going to say it's the end of my career and I won't allow it to be. There's been older and better players than me that have spent years out of cricket with injury and come back pretty well, so, hopefully, I'll be the same.
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The players will have to make some technical changes to do well after their win at home.
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The players deserve everything which comes their way.
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He's a huge member of our team and without him in the last year we wouldn't have won a lot of the games so he'll continue to be a big player for us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.