Since the triumphs of his playing career, the Ashes-winning captain has struggled to find a meaningful niche in cricket
As England’s captain he seemed, again, to combine the best qualities from people who had done it before him. From this side of the boundary he appeared to have a fertile mind, a feel for people, a keen sense of when and whether to take risks, a bullish self-confidence and, when he needed it, a steady bat.
Perhaps Vaughan’s great strength was that he was such a good blusterer he managed to convince what was, in reality, an utterly out-matched England team that they were capable of beating an Australia side including in Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist a good handful of the truly great players.
It felt as if Vaughan’s ego had convinced him that having achieved as much as he did in the sport, his life after it owed him more than he had received. He inevitably drifted into punditry, where he could be brilliantly insightful when he was talking about the sport and an awful bore when he wasn’t. He is, you guess, one of the few people left using the word “banter” without irony. His most egregious tweets came up all over again during these Cricket Discipline Commission hearings,of using racist and/or discriminatory language and bringing the game into disrepute.
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