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Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan
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Personal information
Full name Michael Paul Vaughan OBE
Born (1974-10-29) 29 October 1974 (age 42)
Eccles, Greater Manchester, England
Nickname Frankie, Virgil, Vaughany, Sir Michael of Vaughan
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off-break
Role Batsman, occasional off spinner
Website www.michaelvaughan.net
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 600) 25 November 1999 v South Africa
Last Test 30 July 2008 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 161) 23 March 2001 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 21 April 2007 v West Indies
ODI shirt no. 99
T20I debut (cap 11) 13 June 2005 v Australia
Last T20I 9 January 2007 v Australia
T20I shirt no. 99
Domestic team information
Years Team
1993–2009 Yorkshire (squad no. 7)
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 82 86 268 282
Runs scored 5,719 1,982 16,295 7,238
Batting average 41.44 27.15 36.95 29.18
100s/50s 18/18 0/16 42/68 3/46
Top score 197 90* 197 125*
Balls bowled 978 796 9,342 3,381
Wickets 6 16 114 78
Bowling average 93.50 40.56 46.00 33.38
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/71 4/22 4/39 4/22
Catches/stumpings 44/– 25/– 118/– 88/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 18 February 2017

Michael Paul Vaughan OBE (born 29 October 1974) is 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 Ashes in 2005, eighteen years after having last won the trophy.

Known for his shrewd captaincy and man-management skills, Vaughan captained England in 51 Tests between 2003 and 2008, winning 26 (a national record) and losing 11; England won all seven home Tests of the 2004 summer under Vaughan, and the pinnacle of his captaincy career came with a 2–1 victory in the 2005 Ashes, England's first Ashes victory since 1986/87. However, a recurring knee injury, his decision to move down the batting order to accommodate other openers (Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook) and the pressures of captaincy took their toll on Vaughan's batting during the latter part of his career: in Tests he averaged 50.95 when not captain, and 36.02 as captain. Vaughan announced his retirement from first-class cricket on 30 June 2009.

Michael Vaughan was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester the younger son of Graham and Dee Vaughan, and the great-grandson of a sister of early 20th century Lancashire and England cricketers Johnny Tyldesley and Ernest Tyldesley. The family moved to Sheffield, when he was nine. His father, an engineer, had captained the Worsley third XI, and Vaughan says "My first memory of cricket is when I was 10 years old, hitting balls on the boundary while my dad was playing for Worsley in the Manchester Association League." However, it was his brother David (currently working as an estate agent), older by two years, who got him into the game.


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