by Michael Vaughan | Jan 30, 2018 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
This Australia tour has neatly summed up the state of English cricket. The Tests were disappointing but the white-ball team are strong and that reflects where priorities lie at the moment. If it ends up with a World Cup win then focussing on white-ball cricket will...
by Michael Vaughan | Jan 10, 2018 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
This Ashes defeat will be the making of Joe Root if he uses the experience in the right way. He has to reflect on the past seven weeks and see it as the moment he learned about captaincy, the characters in his own team and how he wants to take this side forward. There...
by Michael Vaughan | Jan 7, 2018 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
It staggers me that England do not have a full time spin bowling coach. It is scandalous when you think how desperate England are to unearth a spin bowler that they do not have a specialist coach for that area but do have them for batting, fielding and fast bowling....
by Michael Vaughan | Dec 23, 2017 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
The old school English cricket view will be that you cannot give young kids a debut at the MCG on Boxing Day in front of 90,000 fans. Some will say it would be too much to expect from Mason Crane or Tom Curran. But England are 3-0 down. What do they have to lose? I...
by Michael Vaughan | Dec 17, 2017 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
For the past couple of years England have put a lot of their energy and focus on winning the 2019 World Cup. The selection of Trevor Bayliss as head coach was geared towards the white ball game where England have developed an identifiable strategy and method. Through...
by Michael Vaughan | Dec 7, 2017 | Ashes, Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph |
The trick of captaincy is to convince the team to play your way and it looks like Joe Root has a job on his hands to persuade the England players to follow his lead. Joe will find out an awful lot about his players on this tour. He is only nine games into the job, and...
