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
below bit building cup defeat team test turn
The one-day team is a little bit below the Test team at the minute, but we are building for 2007 and the World Cup. As a team and players, we had a lot of self-belief that we could turn things around (after first Test defeat at Lord's), and we also have a lot of self-belief we can do very well in the World Cup come 2007.
cricket enjoy
They're young and they do enjoy their cricket,
hope time
It's nonsense. I hope to play for a long time yet.
momentum
The momentum is with us because we've just won,
delighted putting sure
I am not sure if they are cracking, I am just delighted we are putting them under so much pressure,
lose obviously
It's obviously disappointing to lose Giles who is our most experienced spinner.
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It is important, with winter approaching, that the plight of those needing blankets and tents in the earthquake zone is not forgotten,
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I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,
few next order
That's the order you are going to see for the next few matches.
few left problems
Marcus left the tour, had a few problems and an illness, now let's look forward.
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I suppose he has the chance to kind of shove it down our throats and prove us wrong to drop him,
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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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I found it odd and childish, the kind of thing you'd say in the playground,
bowl conditions debut exploited good james toss
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.