But last week, Vaughan was left out of England’s 16-man training squad for the upcoming Ashes series after having struggled to find form for Yorkshire in the county championship. He had scored only 147 runs in seven first-class innings this season.

Vaughan admitted that he had not done enough to warrant inclusion in the Ashes squad.

“I have not played well enough,” Vaughan said. “I have not got the rhythm or form to be picked in the Ashes squad. It has to be the best 16 players and I am not one of those.”

England could have given Vaughan one last chance to stake a claim for inclusion by playing him in the England Lions match against the Australians in Worcester, but even he wasn’t in favour of that.

“To put me in Lions team would have been purely on what I have done in the past and you have to move forward,” Vaughan said.