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Cricket: Vaughan on the mend.


MICHAEL Vaughan described his return to competitive cricket as a "real positive" -even though it ended with a seven-ball duck as England Academy lost to Western Australia Western Australia, state (1991 pop. 1,409,965), 975,920 sq mi (2,527,633 sq km), Australia, comprising the entire western part of the continent. It is bounded on the N, W, and S by the Indian Ocean. Perth is the capital.  2nd XI in Perth.

Vaughan, England captain For information about the captains of England sports teams see the articles on the sports team in question. For example:
  • England national football team
  • England national rugby union team
  • England national cricket team
 until knee problems and surgery last year, yesterday played his first match since a midsummer operation.

The Yorkshire bat hopes to be available to England again early next year - although more optimistic reports suggest he could yet feature in the Ashes series This is a list of Ashes cricket series played between Australia and England. Most Ashes series have consisted of five Test matches between the two countries. The Ashes series with the fewest Test matches was the 1887-88 Ashes series, consisting of only one Test. . He began his latest comeback in the field and was untroubled by his injury in his short stay at the crease.

"Obviously it's slightly disappointing I didn't get any runs - but to be honest, today was all about getting back to playing cricket," Vaughan said.

"It's a huge positive to me that I'm back on the field playing cricket. It is the early stages of a comeback - but six months ago I never thought I'd get back to the stage of playing cricket again."

Vaughan reported he felt his knee "a little bit".
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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Nov 30, 2006
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