Michael Vaughan Last Quotations

We want to have a good long chat with Freddie. It's his home ground, he knows the conditions. Over the last year or so we haven't played that much here. We want to look at the options - normal swing, reverse swing, bounce, all the areas you cover at any game of cricket. We'll just have a good chat this afternoon.

On our last tour of India, we came close to winning.

I have a lot of respect for him, he is doing a good job with the South Africa team. We just had a bit of a fall-out last winter. These things happen.

We will just do as we have done in the last few games. We'll just treat this match as we have done the last few games. We've been outstanding since Lord's and I don't see any reason why we should change our thinking and our approach to the game.

We will probably leave it until the last minute to see which way we go,

It's never happened before, we're pretty pleased with the 11 that's played for us in the games so far. Over the last few years, Australia has had an 11 they play very, very regularly. If they change it, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing. We'll just have to wait and see.

The knee is all right. It's been four weeks since the operation. I've done rehab and I've just started running indoors on soft surfaces in the last few days. You need a little bit of luck but if that stays with me I'm sure I will be fine for the tour.

He's a huge member of our team and without him in the last year we wouldn't have won a lot of the games so he'll continue to be a big player for us.

I feel I've got better in the last year-and-a-half since I moved to number three.

These are new conditions for a lot of our lads and they are excited about trying to do well in Pakistan, who have improved in the last year.