Vaughan and Fletcher searching for magical missing ingredient

England arrived in Barbados with Michael Vaughan and Duncan Fletcher still insisting that the team are not far from their eureka moment, writes Richard Hobson in The Times.

The seven-wicket defeat by Australia on Sunday mirrored the two-run loss to Sri Lanka four days earlier. For some of the time England played very well, but they proved unable to put together a complete performance and, with one more reversal enough to bring elimination, time is running out, Hobson feels.

In The Independent, Angus Fraser says that Vaughan has three innings - possibly five - to save his one-day international career.

Vaughan must know that he is struggling to crack this form of the game. It is not as though he has been dynamic in domestic cricket, where he has reached three figures only three times in 258 innings. Vaughan may well take the decision out of England's hands at the end of the tournament by announcing his retirement from one-day cricket.

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