Michael Vaughan returned to the England team with business proceeding as usual - this time a 77-run Twenty20 defeat against Australia. Graeme Fowler and Bob Willis in The Guardian debate whether it was too soon for the England captain to return.
Fowler says,
If I was Duncan Fletcher I would have told him to go back to Yorkshire, play a bit of first-class cricket, or said: "If you're coming to Australia, play some club cricket out here, get some runs, make a couple of centuries and you'll get back in in the summer. But under no circumstances are you going anywhere near this England squad."
Willis retorts,
While it is unlikely he will be truly fit for international cricket at this stage, things are so bad in the England camp at the moment that he had to get back and help the team out.
