A marathon hundred by captain Michael Vaughan helped England salvage a draw in the second Test against Sri Lanka.
Vaughan has recovered from a broken finger that kept him out of the first Test at Lord's that ended in a draw on Monday.
England go into the fourth Test in Melbourne, which starts on Thursday, 3-0 down in the series.\n\n
England captain Michael Vaughan does not believe the memory of his most prolific home series, against India in 2002, will have any bearing when the teams open their three-Test series at Lord's on Thursday.
Former captain Michael Vaughan should be recalled to solve England's batting problem at number three in the order for the Ashes series against Australia later this year, former coach Duncan Fletcher said Thursday.
Ben Stokes's England were panned by former captains after their humiliating 434-run loss against India in the 3rd Test in Rajkot on Sunday.
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has called on his country's players to go ahead with their tour of Bangladesh, saying that they should trust the security experts and ignore the political machinations. England's players were earlier given a choice to decide whether they want to tour Bangladesh later this year in the wake of the security concerns despite the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and its longstanding security expert, Reg Dickason, deeming the trip to Dhaka as safe.
"Michael has not been selected for the tour of India because his place in the Test squad cannot be justified based on recent form," National selector Geoff Miller said in a statement.
The 31-year-old Vaughan, who has not played for England since the second Test against Pakistan in Lahore in December, was cautious about the improvement in his knee.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has compared his teammate Graeme Swann's scorching off-break that rocked Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's woods in the Edgbaston Test with Michael Vaughan's magic ball that dismissed Sachin Tendulkar in the 2002 Trent Bridge Test.
England's captain said Saturday's final will be about who handles the pressure better on the day.
England captain Michael Vaughan looks almost certain to miss the first Test against Pakistan through a knee injury.
"I've read I might never play cricket again -- and that might well turn out to be the case," he was quoted as saying in the British media on Sunday.
England cricket could find itself in the doldrums with a report claiming that captain Kevin Pietersen is threatening to resign over the non-inclusion of former skipper Michael Vaughan in the squad for this month's tour of the West Indies.
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Former England skipper Michael Vaughan feels Ravi Bopara should stop idolising Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricketers should not "worship" opponents while their teams battle it out on the field.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive Justin Vaughan has announced that he will walk away from the job at the end of November.
Vaughan is regarded by Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq as England's key player.
The England captain anticipates a sterner challenge from the experienced India team in the Test series next month.
Former captain Michael Vaughan backed England to bounce back from the bitter loss in Chennai, saying that Kevin Pietersen and his men have the "bulldog spirit" to square the Test series against India in Mohali. Vaughan admitted that the six-wicket loss in Chennai was a bitter pill to swallow, considering the way England dominated most part of the match.
India may not be contemplating life after Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli just yet but the robust display of their fringe players against England will have eased any fears about how they will cope when the old guard steps aside.
The Bharat Army has pungent retorts for the Barmy Army.
The England captain faced just one ball before retiring hurt in England's second innings against Pakistan 'A'.
England's only stand-out batting performance in a low-scoring game against the PCB Patron's XI came from opener Marcus Trescothick.
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Set to achieve a major milestone of playing his 100th Test this week, England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow dedicated the achievement to his cancer-survivor mother who has been his driving force and kept the family together through the difficult times.
Everyone was in a daze on Sunday as one of the most enthralling, roller-coaster games in history reached its classic climax.
Vaughan is still struggling with a hamstring injury, though England are hoping he will be fit to play against New Zealand in Brisbane on Tuesday.
They were banned a year ago for fielding a weakened team, that team is still the same, said Vaughan.
England captain Michael Vaughan says his team will need to raise the bar to beat Rahul Dravid's men in the three-Test series.
He is not the most professional cricketer around, but former England captain Michael Vaughan says talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is second only to Sachin Tendulkar when it comes to lifting his team and the fans.
Former Indian captains Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly slammed Michael Vaughan for kicking up the 'Vaseline controversy' unnecessarily, terming the comments by the ex-England skipper as "ridiculous" and aimed at a psychological game against the visitors.
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