Michael Vaughan
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"Michael Paul Vaughan" Order of the British Empire/OBE is a retired cricketer who represented Yorkshire County Cricket Club/Yorkshire and England cricket team/England. A classically elegant right-handed batsman and occasional off spin/off-spinner, Vaughan was ranked one of the best batsmen in the world following the English cricket team in Australia in 2002-03/2002/03 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.

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Individuals always take a little bit more stick than others, but Ashley has been a fantastic performer.

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.

I thought we started the Test match at Lord's very well and for a day and a half we were good and then Australia took the game away from us - we've got to make sure we keep our performance levels up for a sustained period of play.

Our batters, and especially our bowlers in the heat - it has been a real team effort. [on winning the South Africa series, 2005].

I'm thrilled. I'm proud of this team. If we'd gone 2-0 down in the series, against a team like Australia, we couldn't have come back from there.

It's a summer I'm looking forward to, because we're playing against the best team there has ever been.

It's been an epic morning.

This is the most exciting part of the winter and South Africa are a good team who will provide a good test for us.

We will probably leave it until the last minute to see which way we go.