Michael Vaughan to return to BBC for The Ashes and Ireland Test

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Former England skipper Michael Vaughan volition instrumentality to the BBC for this summer's men's Ashes bid and the Test lucifer against Ireland.

Vaughan has worked arsenic a pundit since retiring from playing successful 2009 but stepped backmost successful June aft helium was accused of utilizing racist connection towards erstwhile team-mate Azeem Rafiq during their clip astatine Yorkshire.

The 48-year-old denied the allegation.

He was cleared by the Cricket Discipline Commission successful March.

Vaughan was accused of saying "there's excessively galore of you lot, we request to person a connection astir that" to Rafiq and team-mates Adil Rashid, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Ajmal Shahzad during a Yorkshire lucifer successful 2009.

He was charged on with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and six different erstwhile players with bringing the crippled into disrepute, pursuing a nine-month probe by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

The sheet said it was "not satisfied connected the equilibrium of probabilities" that the words were said by Vaughan "at the clip and successful the circumstantial circumstances alleged".

He was not progressive successful BBC sum of the 2021-22 Ashes bid successful Australia but returned successful March 2022, earlier stepping back 3 months later.

He has since apologised for sending "disgusting" humanities tweets which were brought to his attraction successful a 2021 BBC interview.

At the clip of the panel's verdict, Vaughan posted connected societal media that the result "must not beryllium allowed to detract from the halfway connection that determination tin beryllium nary spot for racism successful the crippled of cricket, oregon successful nine generally".

Vaughan captained England successful Tests betwixt 2003 and 2008 and led them to occurrence successful the 2005 Ashes.

He played his full home vocation astatine Yorkshire - betwixt 1993 and 2009 - earlier becoming a summariser connected Test Match Special and aboriginal a commentator for BBC TV, BT Sport and Australia's Fox Sports.