Michael Vaughan Quotes (80 Quotes)

My warmest congratulations to you, the England cricket team and all in the squad for the magnificent achievement of regaining the Ashes.

But we are proud to have beaten a very good India side. We have improved in leaps and bounds and we hope to take this form into the Champions Trophy.

The obvious question on everyone's lips is now Can England win the Ashes. We're playing good cricket, ... Challenges have been thrown at us over the last few weeks and we've done alright in the last few. The Oval I'm sure will be an epic like the last three. Can we do it for the last game I'm not too sure if we can but sure we will do.

The right decision now is to get things sorted out fully and make sure that when I come back I'm able to play a full part. In Pakistan I felt I couldn't play to my full potential because of the knee and I certainly wasn't going to allow that to happen on this trip.

On our last tour of India, we came close to winning.

I don't think anyone who watched the previous matches would have come today and expected England to stroll to 130,

They were three fantastic deliveries which got the first three wickets. We said to the lads just hang in there, try and make them get us out,

We do think we might play on some spinner-friendly pitches, especially because of our attack. We will just have to come up with our best formula to get 20 wickets to put India under pressure.

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

It's an amazing feeling, ... It's been a rollercoaster of a summer. At the beginning of the tournament, it was a real distant dream. It's now become reality because the lads have put a hell of a lot of hard work in, they believed in their own ability and they've known how to express themselves.

I'm confident. I believe I've done the right work at home. Hopefully it will go well and I will score a few runs and take it from there.

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.

He was a great player, captain of his country, and he's the king of the microphone.

Thoughts of going home won't be taking over my thoughts I can assure you. We have a travel day tomorrow and prepare on Tuesday for Wednesday's match. It was a poor performance and we have to lift ourselves for the next one.

I have a lot of respect for him, he is doing a good job with the South Africa team. We just had a bit of a fall-out last winter. These things happen.

That kind of score is difficult to chase, if you are set 220 it is different - you just bat time,

It's a great opportunity if Simon isn't fit for someone to make a name for themselves. Chris Tremlett has been in the squad and he has a great opportunity to show what he can do in the final.

I'm sure there will come a stage where the players would like to hear a different voice and like to have a different direction. I'll stay for as long as they want me.

It was an epic game. Australia are a very hard team to beat.

He looks to have a good physique for bowling, he can bat as well and he's a good fielder. Hopefully he'll have a good career ahead of him,

The real test will come when I start running, twisting and bowling but I am confident I will be on the plane for India next month.

Am surrounded both sides. My centre cannot hold. Situation excellent. I shall attack.

I'm baffled by the international standard of cricket

Very good, terrific imagination. The key to the series was the England bowlers and with the way that they have performed, he has been able to attack and defend as he chooses.

We haven't been to the sub-continent and won yet. If we play good cricket over there, I'm sure the rankings will change.

That's a big loss, he's bowled extremely well. It's very hard to find a like-for-like replacement for Simon because of the way he's bowled. He's probably up there with the best in the world at this minute,

Marcus left the tour, had a few problems and an illness, now let's look forward.

Australia have been beating teams home and away for a long time,

I just feel unfit to play cricket at the moment though I'd want to be available for both forms of the game. One of my ambitions is to go with England to the World Cup and do very well, which we haven't done for a long time. Of course I'd compromise if the specialists recommended that I give up one-day cricket.

To beat Australia you need to have a good team performance but you also need individual brilliance,