Time to move on
It's time to wake up
His knee, in other words, is shot, its condition chronic. In which case this is no longer about getting Vaughan fit for cricket. It is about trying to make sure that by the time he enters middle age he is not doing so on a stick.
"Why me?" is the sentiment that prevails as you consider a life without cricket, but it is the uncertainty that gets you down.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo