England need more variety than just 90mph bowlers - Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has questioned England's over-reliance connected selecting out-and-out accelerated bowlers pursuing their group-stage exit from the Champions Trophy.

England bowed retired of the tourney connected Wednesday aft losing their must-win clash with Afghanistan by 8 runs.

Jos Buttler's broadside fielded 3 90mph bowlers – Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Jamie Overton – and conscionable 1 frontline spinner (Adil Rashid) successful their bowling attack, and watched arsenic Afghanistan posted a match-winning full of 325-7 aft conceding 113 runs successful the last 10 overs.

Earlier successful the tournament, a three-pronged gait onslaught of Wood, Archer and Brydon Carse leaked 226 runs from 26.3 overs arsenic Australia chased 352 to implicit a five-wicket win.

However, it's acold from a caller occupation for England, according to Vaughan, who criticised the team's absorption for taking "their oculus disconnected white-ball cricket" since winning the 2019 World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.

England failed to support either rubric and person been "all implicit the place" successful presumption of enactment and tactics, according to the erstwhile captain, with their request for velocity successful the bowling onslaught astatine the bosom of their struggles.

Speaking connected the Today Programme, Vaughan added: "There's nary left-arm seam bowlers, nary left-arm spin, nary left-handed batters, [and] we conscionable look to beryllium each retired successful presumption of pace. I don't cognize who that idiosyncratic is who's made the determination that it's each astir gait successful white-ball cricket.

"If you inquire astir batters astir the world, of people you don't privation to look 90mph, but if there's a spot wherever you'd emotion to look 90mph, it's successful the sub-continent. England person deed some India and [teams] successful the Champions Trophy with a immense magnitude of gait and batters person been deflecting the shot to each parts."

Reflecting connected England's erstwhile successes with fast-medium bowlers arsenic opposed to out-and-out quicks, helium continued: "I'll conscionable spell backmost to the 2019 World Cup final. I cognize it's antithetic conditions but Chris Woakes and Liam Plunkett got 6-79 [and] they vessel astir 82-84 mph. Recently, England person been hell-bent connected making definite they're looking for that 90mph bowler.

"The England Lions circuit of Australia – a young chap, Sonny Baker, bowled nicely, helium bowled 90mph. He's been fixed a cardinal contract, oregon a declaration that England tin manage.

"There's a lad astatine Essex called Sam Cook. He's 27 years' old, helium bowls 82mph, he's got 311 wickets successful region cricket astatine an mean of 19. He was the prime of the bowlers connected the Lions our and helium hasn't got that contract.

"It's a wide determination by the England absorption that it's each astir pace. In the clip I've been watching cricket, playing cricket, and progressive successful English cricket, Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson person been our champion 2 bowlers. They don't vessel astatine 90mph."