MV admits ODI career may be over

England Test captain Michael Vaughan has admitted the chances were slim of him being picked in the one-day side after he resigned from the one-day captaincy earlier this week.

“The best thing for the team is for me not to play for a while,” Vaughan said after his side’s 3-0 win over the West Indies in the Test series.

“I certainly don’t expect to be picked, because a new captain would find it very difficult captaining me a week after I’ve captained him in a Test.”

Vaughan also revealed that the decision to step down as skipper of the one-day side was made towards the end of the World Cup and was not a recent one, as some have speculated.

“I made the decision in my heart in West Indies. But I didn’t want to just come out and say that because I thought there’d been enough talk,” he added, explaining he’d been influenced by coach Duncan Fletcher’s decision to quit,” he said.

“Duncan had just resigned, so I came home and spoke to a lot of people but not one of them told me to stand down, so I thought maybe I should carry on.

“Then two weeks passed by and I remember sitting at home with my wife and saying it’s just not the right thing.

“It’s the right time to get a new captain in charge and give him as many games as he needs to be a good one-day captain because he needs 60-70 matches of experience.”

Unlike his Test career, Vaughan has never flourished in the shorter form of the game, averaging just 27.15 in 86 matches.