http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 gets Michael Vaughan’s backing – Cricket News Update
Former England captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Paul-Vaughan-c76145, backed incumbent Andrew Strauss as the Test captain of the national side, saying that calls for dropping the Middlesex opener as skipper due to lack of runs are “ridiculous”.
Speaking to the media reporters, the 37-year-old former England batsman said that the captaincy has nothing to with scoring runs.
"As a captain, it's ridiculous to talk about Strauss' position," said Vaughan during an interview with ESPNcricinfo. "You only get better as a captain: tactically and management wise (with time)...And that's what captaincy is: it's a man-management role,”
he added further.
Vaughan however, agreed that the left-handed England opener needs a big score, but to strengthen his place in the team as a batsman. The former Test captain of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817
star needs, according to Vaughan, is to covert starts in to big scores.
"What Strauss needs now is a score. He needs a big score. He's playing all right: his feet are going quite nicely and I don't see any technical flaws. But he needs to make the starts count,” said Vaughan, who played 82 Tests and 86 One Day Internationals
for England during his nine-year long international career, spanning between 1999 and 2008.
Strauss, the 35-year-old left-handed top-order batsman, has scored just one ton in his last 50 Test innings. His last Test century had come in November 2010, during the opening Test of the 2010-11 Ashes series. In the last calendar year, Strauss scored just
316 runs in 11 innings at an average of 28.73, including just two half centuries.
In the two Test series England have played this year, against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, Strauss scored just 264 runs in 10 innings at an average of 26.4. Vaughan urged the Middlesex star to come up with big scores in the upcoming home Test series against West
Indies, starting May 17, otherwise he could find himself in great trouble.
“...in the series against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, he needs a big score or that problem will get bigger. You can't keep going on as an opening batsman - even if the side are winning,” said Vaughan, Strauss’ ex teammate.
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