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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Vaughan tips Strauss to quit one-dayers

Former England captain Michael Vaughan upon Sunday sloping stream skipper Andrew Strauss, graphic upon Mar 26, to give up one-day cricket following a team’s World Cup quarter-final defeat.
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COLOMBO (AFP) – Former England captain Michael Vaughan upon Sunday sloping stream skipper Andrew Strauss to give up one-day cricket following a team’s World Cup quarter-final defeat.

England’s rollercoaster contest finished upon Saturday in a 10-wicket subjection during a hands of Sri Lanka in Colombo, with Strauss insisting it was impractical to design success when players have been not since a rest.

“Going brazen you consider you will see a last of Strauss wearing a one-day shirt,” Vaughan told reporters in Colombo.

He pronounced England’s tiresome report was partly to censure for a team’s World Cup defeats to Bangladesh as good as Ireland.

After winning a Ashes, England played a seven-match one-day general array in Australia. That was followed by a short mangle during home prior to a World Cup debate proposed in a initial week of February.

“With a prolonged schedule, Strauss’s World Cup opening was miraculous. He did good in a Ashes. He got a runs. The man has finished brilliantly over a last eighteen months,” Vaughan said.

He pronounced Strauss’ upon all sides is expected to come underneath inspection in a May examination of England’s winter performances.

Strauss has not voiced his preference yet, though Vaughan, who captained England in 60 one-day games in between 2003 as good as 2007, during which he was additionally Test captain, believes Strauss will have a preference to step down.

“He (Strauss) will have a lot to consider about when he is upon a craft tomorrow (Monday). He’s a grown up bloke, a grown up captain,” pronounced 36-year-old Vaughan, who late in 2009.

“Andrew has been an superb Test captain, winning a Ashes for us as good as his one-day batting has softened a lot over a last integrate of months.

“But you consider Andrew additionally understands which when he arrives home as good as things solve down, he needs to confirm what is most appropriate for a England group as good as a England set-up,” pronounced Vaughan upon a sidelines of a gift event.

Vaughan told a BBC early Sunday which Strauss’s immature family could additionally be an critical cause as he decides possibly to give up a shorter chronicle of a game.

“You have been divided for so long. He has a poetic immature family as good as it comes to a theatre when he needs to ask himself if he needs to be you do which consistently as good as will he be during a subsequent World Cup in 4 year’s time. You have to contend he substantially won’t be,” Vaughan said.

“He might lift upon in to a summer for smoothness in to a India series. But you have a disreputable guess which (the Sri Lanka quarter-final) was his last game.”

Sri Lanka take upon New Zealand in a initial World Cup semi-final upon Tuesday, with a leader confronting possibly Pakistan or India in a last upon Saturday.

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