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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Spin hasn't bowled many teams out here. We'll make a decision pretty late.
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Steve produced one of the greatest spells of bowling by an England player,
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I had an injection on Wednesday night, tested it at nets yesterday and am going to monitor it over the next 48 hours.
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I'm baffled by the international standard of cricket
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It was an epic game. Australia are a very hard team to beat.
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Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.
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It's an amazing feeling. It's been a rollercoaster of a summer. At the beginning of the tournament, it was a real distant dream. It's now become reality because the lads have put a hell of a lot of hard work in, they believed in their own ability and they've known how to express themselves.
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It's an amazing feeling, ... It's been a rollercoaster of a summer. At the beginning of the tournament, it was a real distant dream. It's now become reality because the lads have put a hell of a lot of hard work in, they believed in their own ability and they've known how to express themselves.
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From that moment on my relationship with Smith became very frosty,
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Geraint Jones is a very, very impressive character,
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It's a great opportunity if Simon isn't fit for someone to make a name for themselves. Chris Tremlett has been in the squad and he has a great opportunity to show what he can do in the final.
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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.
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Australia have been beating teams home and away for a long time,
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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.