The father of England’s legendary player Michael Vaughan has passed away suddenly. For this reason, Michael Vaughan has left the Ashes series midway and returned back to England. The veteran cricketer told that he was able to spend some time with his father before he passed away. Michael’s father Graham Vaughan was battling cancer.

On Monday, Michael Vaughn told through social media that with tears in his eyes he had lost his hero, his mentor, true friend and best father. Michael Vaughan said that it was good for him that he could be with his father during his last 30 hours. The legendary England player shared a long emotional message in memory of his father.

Graham Vaughan breathed his last at St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield and died in the arms of Michael Vaughan’s brother. Other family members were also present there. Many former cricketers expressed condolences at this sad time. Other cricketers including Wasim Jaffer, Kevin Pietersen and James Faulkner have also expressed deep condolences.

Recently, Michael Vaughan was a part of the broadcast team of the Ashes series and was staying in Australia. But due to deteriorating health of his father, he went back to England. Talking about the Ashes series, Australia has taken an unassailable lead of 3-0. There are still two more matches to be played in the series.

Michael Vaughan said goodbye to his cricket career in the year 2009. In his long career, he captained the England team in 82 Test and 86 ODI matches. Under his captaincy, England registered a historic victory in the Ashes 2005. He had scored 7728 runs in his international cricket career.

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Australia Bondi Beach Shooting: On December 14, two terrorists started firing indiscriminately on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. 12 people lost their lives in this firing and some injured were admitted to the hospital. Veteran England cricketer Michael Vaughan has told that when this attack took place on Bondi Beach, he was stranded in a restaurant at the same place.

Michael Vaughan is currently a part of the broadcasting team of the Ashes 2025-26 series, for this series he is staying in Australia. Michael has shared his experience while posting on X. People who witnessed this incident with their own eyes said that at around 6:40 in the evening, two people got out of the car and started firing indiscriminately.

Michael Vaughan wrote on

Being locked in a restaurant in Bondi was scary .. Now home safe .. but thanks so much to the emergency services and the guy who confronted the terrorist .. thoughts with all who have been affected .. xxx

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) December 14, 2025

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described this incident as inspired by terrorism. When this attack took place on Bondi Beach, a person showed bravery by snatching the gun from the terrorist and made him fall down. In this case, the Australian police has arrested a person, whose name is said to be Navid Akram. Akram is currently in police custody, while another terrorist was killed in an encounter.

Ashes series status

2 matches have been completed in the Ashes series, host Australia has won both these matches and is taking a 2-0 lead in the series. Australia won the first Test played in Perth by 8 wickets and then Australia won by 8 wickets at Gabba ground also. The third Ashes Test is to be played in Adelaide from 17 December.

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Michael Vaughan Questions Team India Selection: The second Test match is being played between India and England from Wednesday. Indian team management decided to relax fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah in this match. After which veteran players like Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Tom Moody and Nasir Hussain expressed their displeasure over the decision of head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill. Now the name of former England player Michael Vaughan has also been added to this list. Vaughan has also criticized India’s decision.

I thought Bumrah would play- Vaughan

Vaughan was quite surprised when Bumrah was not included in the second Test. Talking to Cricbuzz, Von said, “I am surprised that India has announced, Bumrah will play only three Tests. Why are you telling them this? Just three play. If you don’t choose it, it’s fine. But after seven days, after seven days rest, after being behind in India’s series, I felt that he would play here.”

Vaughan said that this match is very important for India. They need to win this. Von said, “India will have to win this match. If they lose, they will lag behind 2-0, you will bring Jaspreet back to Lord’s. I know the players want to play in Lord’s. But I am only watching India, he will have to win this match this week.”

Vaughan has also questioned the selection of Team India after this. Team India has included only 5 specialist batsmen and a lot of all -rounders in this match. Von said, “I wanted two more bowlers. I wanted Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Arshdeep Singh. You can argue that such a pitch could have been played with three spinners in Edgbaston with three spinners. It is dry and slow.”

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Aakash chopra shuts up micheal vaughan with facts: Former England player Michael Vaughan has praised Ben Docket. Docket played a brilliant innings in the first Test against India. Docket scored a half -century in the first innings and a century in the second innings. Docket scored 62 runs in the first innings. At the same time, chasing the target of 371 runs, Docket scored a brilliant 149 runs. After which Vauan said that Docket is the best player in the world of all three formats at this time. However, former India player Akash Chopra appeared to disagree with this.

Akash responded to von from fact, told this player better

Vaughan described Docket as the best player of this time of all three formats. However, Akash disagreed on this, saying that Docket still needs to do good in India, South Africa and Australia. He has described Travis Head as better than docket.

Akash said on his YouTube channel, “I agree that all three format in the current players are good. If you see their performance in the last two years, he has done a great performance in all three formats. But there is a problem.”

Akash further said, “He has not gone to Australia to play Test cricket yet. He has played only three innings in South Africa. His performance in India was well. Perhaps Pakistan was good. But his performance in the rest of the place has not been as good. He has been doing very well in the last two years. But you have to see Travis Head too, he has also performed brilliantly in the last few years.”

Akash said about the head, “He has the ability to perform in big matches. Look at the 2023 WTC final and 2023 ODI World Cup final. If you do man to man, both of them are equal. But in my opinion, the head is a little ahead of them.”

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