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 thing about India is that while they will miss Sachin, they have the ability to put out another batsman nearly as good.
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We've been talking about psychological advantages and disadvantages throughout the whole summer,
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To beat Australia you need to have a good team performance but you also need individual brilliance,
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We'll do well to learn from our defeats in Pakistan, we aim to move ahead.
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We were excellent in the field but then they hit us hard with the new ball,
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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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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.
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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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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 haven't been to the sub-continent and won yet. If we play good cricket over there, I'm sure the rankings will change.
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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.
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We won't know until a ball has been bowled on it,
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To get an MBE is just something special and it is an awesome feeling.
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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.