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Michael Vaughan
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Off Spin (OB)
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64
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4595
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4294
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15/14
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197
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156
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6
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8950
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0
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0
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2/71
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37/0
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74
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1730
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2836
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0/15
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90
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12
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4300
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4/22
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20/0
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3 December
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2005
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is an
English Cricket er, and captain of the
England Cricket Team . He plays
County Cricket for
Yorkshire .
Vaughan was born on
October 29 1974 , in
Manchester .
The Vaughan family moved to
Sheffield ,
South Yorkshire when Michael was nine years old. There Michael attended
Silverdale School , where he started playing cricket for the school side and also for
Sheffield Collegiate CC . He also started following
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club .
Vaughan, now living in Baslow (Derbyshire), turned up as a child to watch Yorkshire playing at Sheffield. During the tea interval, he was playing on the outfield with his friends when then Yorkshire head coach
Doug Padgett spotted his natural ability from the balcony of the pavillion. He put down his cup of tea and went to get the boy's name and phone number. Unfortunately, Vaughan was born in Manchester, and at the time Yorkshire had a strict policy of only picking players that were born in Yorkshire. Years later, when the rule was relaxed,
Doug Padgett re-investigated the young player, and got him to come to the academy. After watching him bat for 10 minutes,
Padgett remarked, "Sign him."
A stylish
Batsman and occasional
Off Spin ner, Vaughan began playing professional cricket aged 17, and captained the
England Under-19 Cricket Team on tour against
Sri Lanka in 1993/4 and at home against
India in 1994. He played his first
Test Match for England in
South Africa in November
1999 , with England in the parlous state of four wickets down for two runs. He soon demonstrated his maturity and flair as a
Batsman , particularly his trade-mark cover drive. Easy comparisons were drawn with
Michael Atherton , as both are obdurate batsmen from
Manchester , but Vaughan's
Batting has an extra degree of freedom.
In May 2001 he scored his first Test Century against Pakistan at
Old Trafford . In December
2001 , in
Bangalore , Vaughan became the second Englishman, after
Graham Gooch , and the 8th and most recent player in Test match history, to be given out ''
Handled The Ball '' in Tests.
In
2002 , Vaughan scored 900 runs in seven Tests against
Sri Lanka and
India . This included 115 against Sri Lanka at
Lord's during the first Test. During the series against India he scored a duck and 100 against India during the first Test at Lord's, and his highest innings score to date of 197 against India during the second Test at
Nottingham and two Tests later during the fourth Test he scored 195 against India, again falling just short of a double-century. Later that year the English cricket team travelled to Australia for the
2002-03 Ashes Series . It was here that Vaughan was to prove that he could perform against the best team in the world. He started poorly in the first Test at Brisbane with 33 and 0. But in the second Test at Adelaide he made a superb 177 and 41. During the fourth Test at Melbourne he made an aggressive 145 despite playing in a struggling England side. In the fifth and final Test at Sydney, Vaughan scored a spectacular match-winning 183 before being given out wrongfully lbw to
Andy Bichel , as replays showed that not only was the ball missing leg stump but it was going over the stumps by a fair margin. He became the first visiting batsman for 32 years to score over 600 runs in a Test match series in
Australia and the first Englishman to make 3 Test hundreds in a series against Australia since
Chris Broad . In total, he scored 1,481 Test runs in 2002, the third highest for a calendar year in Test history (trailing
Viv Richards ' 1,710 in 1976 and
Ricky Ponting 's 1503 in 2003). During this magnificent run of form, Vaughan rose to the number 1 batsman in the world, the first Englishman to achieve this since Graham Gooch.
In July 2004, in the first Test against the
West Indies , Vaughan became the eighth England player to score a century in each innings of a Test match.
During the
2005 Ashes Series against Australia many people were criticising Vaughan's poor run of form. But during the third Test at
Manchester he answered those critics, albeit with a bit of luck during a
Glenn McGrath over. In the second ball of the over, when Vaughan was on 41, he cut hard at a wide delivery from McGrath and Gilchrist allowed it to slip through his gloves and run away for four runs. The very next ball McGrath clean bowled Vaughan with a superb
Leg Cutter , only for the umpire to rescue Vaughan by calling a no-ball for overstepping the line. Vaughan made another two runs off the no-ball in which he was bowled. Later in the over Vaughan brought up his half-century with another three runs off the fourth ball. Vaughan went onto strike a superb 166, punishing in particular the poor bowling of
Jason Gillespie . Vaughan was eventually caught by Glenn McGrath off a full-toss delivery from
Simon Katich .
Vaughan was appointed captain of the England
One-day International side in 2003, and suddenly became captain of the England Test team on 28th July 2003, after scoring a magnificent 156 in the first Test against
South Africa , when
Nasser Hussain resigned after England had narrowly clung on for a draw. The England team promptly lost his first Test in charge by an innings and 215 runs, but went on to level the series 2-2.
Vaughan's batting initially suffered under the increased pressures of captaincy, although expectations may also have been too high after his spectacular run of form in 2002: in his first twelve matches as captain, his
Batting Average was only 30.31. However, under Vaughan's captaincy, the England side have become one of the most successful sides in world cricket. He benefited from the revolution begun by coach
Duncan Fletcher and former captain Nasser Hussain, such as the awarding of central contracts to the core England players, and continued to forge a winning team.
In 2003, after the drawn series against South Africa, England toured South Asia, beating
Bangladesh but losing to
Sri Lanka . But in
2004 , England were unbeaten, winning eleven matches and drawing two, including an England record of eight consecutive victories. They beat the
West Indies away for the first time since 1968. They then won all seven home Tests against
New Zealand and the West Indies, before beating South Africa away for the first time since 1965.
In the
2005 Home Season , England easily beat Bangladesh in a two-Test series, before facing
Australia for
The Ashes . Hopes were high after the success of the previous eighteen months, but expectations were moderated by the knowledge that Australia had been the best team in the world for many years. In the first Test, at
Lord's , England were easily beaten, but they managed to win the second Test by two runs to level the series. England dominated the rain-affected drawn third Test, and won the fourth Test by three wickets. The fifth Test was also affected by the weather and ended in a draw, allowing England to claim
The Ashes for the first time since
Mike Gatting 's side in the 1986/7 series in Australia.
The Ashes was England's sixth consecutive Test series victory. However, the winning sequence was broken when England were outplayed by
Pakistan in Pakistan in November/December
2005 , losing the three-match Test series 2-0.
As of
3 December ,
2005 , Vaughan has led England to 19 victories in 33 Test matches, drawing eight and losing only six. Of ten Test series, he has won seven, drawn one and lost two. However, England have continued to be less successful in one-day internationals; in 48 ODIs as captain, Vaughan has won 25 and lost 17 with two ties and four no-results.
In
November 2005 , Michael released his book 'Calling The Shots' which describes his time as the England cricket captain so far. He had earlier written another book 'A Year in the Sun: The Captain's story', in which he describes his phenomenal and fortuitous year of 2002-03, experiencing Bradmanesque-form, plundering seven centuries in 12 tests, en route to become the world's best test batsman that year. He also describes his experiences as an England cricketer, bowling out Sachin Tendulkar (the finest player in the modern game) and not to mention, the unforgettable World Cup fiasco in Zimbabwe, which led to England forfeiting important points and eventually the World Cup.
Vaughan's appointment as England captain after the 2003 World Cup brought a new fresh spirit and life in the England dressing room, leading to instant success in the one-day arena. As a result, Nasser Hussain resigned as England test captain and so, Vaughan became in-charge of both teams.
After the tumultuous and roller-coaster series against South Africa, Michael married his Irish childhood sweetheart Nichola Shannon on
27 September 2003 at
Chatsworth House , the home of the
Duke And Duchess Of Devonshire . On
4 June 2004 , during the 2nd Test against New Zealand, he left
Headingley to attend the birth of his first child, a daughter, Tallulah Grace, in
Sheffield . Thus, within a year of being rushed into what is described as 'the fifth most important job in England', Michael was loaded heavily with lots of major responsibilities, both on and off the field. He flew home from the 2005 tour in Pakistan to see specialists and have an operation for his on-going knee problems, and was able to be with his wife and attend the birth of their second child, a son, Archie Matthew, born on
9 December 2005 . He was declared fit to for the subsequent tour of India and even played a warm-up game. But due to the unfortunate flaring-up of the injury on the same operated right knee, he was ruled out of both the test and the ODI series.
Vaughan was chosen as one of the
Wisden Cricketers Of The Year in 2003 after his excellent batting in 2002.
In August 2005, the Sheffield Hallam University honoured him with an honorary doctorate for his services towards the game. September 2005 saw him being awarded the
Freedom Of The City of
Sheffield after captaining England to victory in The Ashes.
In December 2005, the England cricket team was awarded the
BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Team Award . Vaughan was nominated for the
Sports Personality Of The Year Individual Award , but that went to his team-mate,
Andrew Flintoff . On 31 December 2005, the entire Ashes-winning England cricket team was awarded the Queen's New Years' Honours, with Vaughan, team coach Duncan Fletcher and manager Phil Neale being honoured with OBEs and the rest of the side being awarded MBEs.
