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NEWS Vaughan replaces Flintoff as England captain 07th Jan 2007  18.58 IST By Agencies   Michael Vaughan today replaced Andrew Flintoff as England captain to lead his side in the forthcoming one-day cricket tri-series starting on January 12. After Flintoff was stripped of the captaincy following England's 5-0 whitewash in the Ashes series, the first challenge for Michael Paul Vaughan , who was out of action for a year after a knee surgery, would be to instill confidence in the side. "I am sure they will be a little bit affected by what's happened over the last few weeks, but my job as the captain is to challenge them and to try and raise the confidence," Vaughan at a press conference in Sydney today. "I will try to get them to go out on the cricket pitch and express themselves so we can produce some good results," he added. Vaughan, who led England to the 2005 Ashes win, has been in Australia preparing for the tri-series, also involving Australia and New Zealand, and has played some practice games to assess his fitness. "It's a good feeling to be back playing, it's great to be in the squad and an added bonus that I am reinstated as the England cricket captain in circumstances which are very different to when I first got the job," he said. "What I have now is two-and-a-half years of experience. So I feel I am in a good position to carry on as the captain. "The team have had a real tough time. Australia played good cricket and we realise that we have made a few mistakes and not played to the standard of what we expect," Vaughan, who last played an international match in the Lahore Test against Pakistan in November 2005, added. Also View Team Page: England

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