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Mike Selvey on Michael Vaughan’s return
By Scott 2 years ago, at the end of December Leave a comment on this post
Basically, he’s against it, and he thinks that it is more evidence of sloppy thinking by English management.
In my view, he’s quite right. England need to consider their long term as well as their short term goals. There has to be plenty of doubt about Vaughan being fit enough for a tough campaign in the West Indies for the World Cup, and lets face it, he’s not likely to make a difference to an English side that is chronically short of potent ODI bowlers. England’s batting is fine, it’s the bowlers that hinder them, in both forms of the game.
If Vaughan has any use at all to English cricket, it is by being fit and in charge at the top of the order, preparing for the 2009 Ashes campaign. Why you would risk him for the World Cup is an interesting question.
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8 Responses to “Mike Selvey on Michael Vaughan’s return”
December 22nd, 2006 at 9.18 am
December 22nd, 2006 at 9.32 am
Going back to an old captain is like dating an old flame. No matter how hot she made you feel the first time round, its never as good the second time.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11.44 am
I think England need the best captain and at the moment that’s Vaughan. Since if he’s not in the team they’d probably either play Joyce or Yardy, even if he’s not in great form it’s not going to make a huge amount of difference. Maybe Vaughan will get more from the bowlers than Freddie and Strauss have managed, but at least England may get more from Freddie- since without a lot from him, we’re sunk.
As Mike Selvey says in his article, it may just be a fitness test for Vaughan ahead of the World Cup. I reckon the selectors rate our changes against Oz and NZ about the same way I do- we’ll be lucky to win a match.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1.47 pm
I noted with interest and a quiet self-satisfaction that Vaughan captained the Academy team in the third one-day match against WA 2nd XI this week. Whilst he only scored 14 himself, he became the first person to lead any England team to victory in any match so far this summer (Barmy Army excepted). So I’m happy to put up with his indifferent form (let’s face it - there’s enough of them scoring 14 or so per innings for him not to stand out) just to have a captain with plan at the helm again. Let’s hope he’s not kidding himself when he says he wouldn’t put himself up for selection if he wasn’t fit . . .
December 22nd, 2006 at 3.30 pm
My first reaction to the news of Michael Vaughan’s name being in the squad for England’s one-day games was, “oh no, not again!” How England still have the patience or room for a player who after 70 odd one-day games averages less then 30, has no centuries and scores at a strike rate of less then 70, I will never know. You’ve got to ask, are England at such a dearth of talent that they’re asking if such a player should be given the captaincy? And this is world cup year we’re in…Dear oh dear.
Either the all of England’s back up talent pool has miraculously exhausted over night or they have so little faith in their younger generation that they want to go ahead and not only pick a guy that has consistently proven he is not good enough a player for one-day cricket but also make him captain and that too in a world cup year and that too, when that guy has played no proper cricket for a good year at least! I don’t know if I should call this the height of negativity of the pinnacle of obsession with “anyone who led you to the Ashesâ€.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9.34 pm
Seems a strange decision to me.
There might actually be a good arguement for leaving Flintoff as captain of the one-day squad and having Strauss or Vaughan pick up the reins of the Test Team (after the current series has finished)
The one-day game would actually suit Flintoff’s approach to captaincy, whereas the longer format doesn’t.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7.11 am
For once, one of Mike Selvey’s whiney, sycophantic, doomesday like summations of the contemporary state of english cricket actually has a ring of truth to it - Vaughan is playing fire with his career here, his knee needs more rest by all accounts, doubt it would survive more key hole surgery, he needs to ‘rehab it’ for a few more months and he might, just might, eek out a few more years as an international cricketer….its also going to be hard to have a clean transfer of power from the ashes to the world cup…not least for freddy himself…should have let freddy continue captaining..draw a line under this winter,and let vaughan, hopefully, take over in May.
December 24th, 2006 at 11.24 am
Like Zainub implied, Vaughan shouldn’t even be in the one day squad. It is a ridiculous notion.
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