64 Facts About Michael Vaughan

Michael Paul Vaughan was born on 29 October 1974 and is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played all forms of the game.

Michael Vaughan served as England captain for the test team from 2003 to 2008, the one-day international team from 2003 to 2007, and was the first Twenty20 England captain from 2005 to 2007.

Michael Vaughan announced his retirement from first-class cricket on 30 June 2009.

Michael Paul Vaughan was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester the younger son of Graham and Dee Vaughan, and a great-great-nephew of the early 20th century Lancashire and England cricketers Ernest and Johnny Tyldesley.

Michael Vaughan started playing cricket for the school side and it was here he first caught the eye of Doug Padgett, the Yorkshire coach.

Michael Vaughan started playing club cricket for Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield.

Michael Vaughan married Nichola Shannon on 27 September 2003.

In 2012, Michael Vaughan carried the Olympic Torch through Hillingdon for the London Olympic Games on 24 July.

Michael Vaughan stated he would be voting Conservative in 2015 and expressed dissatisfaction about the way in which the Labour Party acted after the 2017 general election.

Michael Vaughan, then living in Derbyshire, turned up as a child to watch Yorkshire playing at Sheffield.

However, Michael Vaughan was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester, and at the time Yorkshire had a strict policy of only picking players who were born in Yorkshire.

Michael Vaughan made his Test debut for England in South Africa in November 1999, becoming the 600th player to represent his country at Test cricket.

Michael Vaughan came to the crease for his first Test innings with England in the perilous state of two wickets down for two runs; within an over this had become four wickets down for two runs.

Michael Vaughan made a composed 33, and shared a partnership of 56 with Andrew Flintoff.

In December 2001, in Bangalore, Michael Vaughan became the second Englishman, after Graham Gooch, and the 7th and most recent player in Test match history, to be given out handled the ball in Tests: on 64, he brushed away a ball from Sarandeep Singh, and was given out on appeal.

In 2002, Michael Vaughan scored 900 runs in seven Tests against Sri Lanka and India.

Michael Vaughan started poorly in the first Test at Brisbane with scores of 33 and 0, but in the second Test in Adelaide he would improve on this with 177 and 41.

Michael Vaughan became the first visiting batsman for 32 years to score over 600 runs in a Test match series in Australia and the first Englishman to make 3 Test hundreds in a series against Australia since Chris Broad.

In total, he scored 1,481 Test runs in 2002, at the time the second highest for a calendar year in Test history after Viv Richards's 1,710 in 1976, although as of 2010 Michael Vaughan's total has been exceeded another five times.

Michael Vaughan followed with a 156 against South Africa at Edgbaston in 2003.

Michael Vaughan was appointed Test captain in the next match, after Nasser Hussain stepped down.

At the point at which he took over the England captaincy, Michael Vaughan had a Test batting average of 50.98.

Michael Vaughan suddenly became captain of the England Test team on 28 July 2003, after scoring 156 in the first Test against South Africa, when Nasser Hussain resigned after England had drawn the game.

Michael Vaughan benefited from the revolution begun by coach Duncan Fletcher and former captain Nasser Hussain, such as the awarding of central contracts to the core England players, and continued to forge a winning team.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting called for a catching pact, where batsmen would accept the word of fielders as to whether they were caught, but this was rejected by Michael Vaughan who preferred to leave it to the umpires.

Analysis of Michael Vaughan's batting showed that over the last 30 months he had averaged only 37.77, and lacked consistency with a poor defensive technique.

Michael Vaughan captained England to a narrow two-run victory in the second Test to level the series, but again scored poorly with only 24 and 1.

Michael Vaughan went on to strike 166, punishing in particular the lacklustre bowling of Jason Gillespie.

Michael Vaughan was eventually caught by Glenn McGrath off a full-toss delivery from occasional slow left-armer Simon Katich.

Michael Vaughan made 58 in the first innings of the fourth Test, but was out for a duck in the second, as England struggled in reaching their target of 129, eventually reaching it with three wickets to spare.

Michael Vaughan was given the freedom of his home city of Sheffield in honour of his achievements.

Michael Vaughan missed almost the entire 2006 season due to injuries related to his knee; he was unable to play Test series against India and Sri Lanka.

On 9 January 2007, Michael Vaughan made his first international appearance in over a year, captaining England to defeat in a Twenty20 match against Australia, despite scoring 27 off 21 balls.

Michael Vaughan returned on 6 February 2007, leading England into the finals with a 14-run victory over New Zealand, although Vaughan was out for a golden duck.

Michael Vaughan captained the team through Group C with victories over Canada and Kenya and a defeat to New Zealand, scoring 45,1 and 26.

Michael Vaughan failed to make a significant score in Sri Lanka as he opened for England with Cook.

Michael Vaughan acknowledged his need for runs, but remained upbeat about his own position and about England's chances in the 2009 Ashes series.

Michael Vaughan answered his critics in the first test scoring his eighteenth century when he hit 106 from 214 deliveries.

Michael Vaughan again came under pressure going into the third Test at Edgbaston.

Michael Vaughan scored a golden duck as the team capitulated to 231 all out on the first day of the test.

Michael Vaughan continued his poor form through 2009 and could not earn himself a recall to the national team in time for the West Indies tour.

Mike Atherton, a former England captain and now cricket correspondent for The Times, suggested that, based on the vibes emanating from Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Michael Vaughan was not about to quit.

Not only is Michael Vaughan involved in broadcasting he has a large range of business interests outside cricket.

Michael Vaughan has an art company called Art Balling where he paints pictures by hitting cricket balls at a wall.

Michael Vaughan confirmed that his name appears in the report into Rafiq's account of racial discrimination, harassment and bullying during his time at Yorkshire in his column in the Daily Telegraph.

In March 2023, Michael Vaughan was cleared on the balance of probabilities of making racist remarks towards Rafiq.

In 2009 Michael Vaughan joined Test Match Special as an expert summariser during the England vs Australia ODI series.

Michael Vaughan appeared on the Sport Panel Show "Fighting Talk" on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Michael Vaughan is a commentator on Channel Five's Cricket on Five television highlights package from the 2010 season.

Michael Vaughan took part in the 2011 TV series Jamie's Dream School.

Since 2012 Michael Vaughan has worked as an interviewer for BBC's golf coverage.

In 2012, Depression in Cricket, on BBC Radio 5 live presented by Michael Vaughan won the Sports Journalists' Association's Award for Best Radio Programme.

On 21 June 2012, Michael Vaughan was the first celebrity to be revealed in the line up of the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, and was voted off the show on 2 December 2012.

In 2018, Michael Vaughan joined Fox Sports Australia as an expert commentator for the Australian test summer.

Michael Vaughan was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2003 and became the first cricketer ever to be featured on the cover of cricket's Bible Wisden after his excellent batting in 2002.

Michael Vaughan was nominated for the Sports Personality of the Year individual award, but that went to his teammate, Andrew Flintoff.

Michael Vaughan was nominated in the Captain of the Year category for the 2006 ICC Awards which was held in Mumbai on 3 November 2006.

Michael Vaughan has written three books related to his cricketing career: A Year in the Sun: The Captain's Story, Calling The Shots and Time To Declare.

Michael Vaughan describes his experiences as an England cricketer, bowling out Sachin Tendulkar and the controversial World Cup in Zimbabwe, which led to England forfeiting important points and eventually any chance they had of winning.

In October 2005, Michael Vaughan released Calling The Shots, which describes man-management of the team as captain and his time as the England cricket captain so far.

Michael Vaughan alleged that Smith had called him [Michael Vaughan] a "queer" and Andrew Flintoff a "big baby".

Michael Vaughan released his book Time To Declare after announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket in 2009.

Michael Vaughan gives an insight about captaining and working with different personalities such as Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen and Steve Harmison, all of whom were instrumental in England winning the 2005 Ashes.

Michael Vaughan gives his views on the state of cricket today and a frank assessment of fellow players, coaches and administrators.