Michael Vaughan

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Playing career

A stylish batsman and occasional off spinner, Vaughan began playing professional cricket aged 17, and captained the England Under-19 cricket team on tour against Sri Lanka in 1993/4 and at home against India in 1994. He first played his first Test match cricket for England in South Africa in November 1999, with England in the parlous state of four wickets down for two runs. He soon demonstrated his maturity and flair as a batsman, particularly his trade-mark cover drive. Easy comparisons were drawn with Michael Atherton, as both are obdurate batsmen from Manchester, but Vaughan's batting has an extra degree of freedom.

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Batsman - Off spin - England Under-19 cricket team - Sri Lanka - India - Test match - South Africa - 1999 - Michael Atherton - Manchester - Batting

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In December 2001, in Bangalore, Vaughan became the second Englishman, after Graham Gooch, and the 8th and most recent player in Test match history, to be given out handled the ball in Tests.

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2001 - Bangalore - Graham Gooch - Handled the ball

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In 2002, Vaughan scored 900 runs in seven Tests against Sri Lanka and India, including two innings over 190 and two other centuries, before becoming the first visiting batsman for 32 years to score over 600 runs in a Test match series in Australia. In total, he scored 1,481 Test runs in 2002, the third highest for a calendar year in Test history (trailing Viv Richards' 1,710 in 1976 and Ricky Ponting's 1503 in 2003).

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2002 - Sri Lanka - India - Australia - Viv Richards - Ricky Ponting

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In July 2004, in the first Test against the West Indies, Vaughan became the eighth England player to score a century in each innings of a Test match (and the third player to do so at Lord's, the other two being Graham Gooch and George Headley).

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West Indies - Lord's - Graham Gooch - George Headley

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