Vaughan critical of Moores

The serialisation of Michael Vaughan's autobiography has suggested that long before the problems between Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen, Vaughan was having his own issues:

What I found is that he wanted to do everyone’s jobs for them. So he would come to me and say: “You are going to tell them this in the huddle, aren’t you?” Duncan would never have done that; he would trust me to get on with it. He would continually quote from psychology books, or Mike Atherton’s or Sir Clive Woodward’s autobiography, or somebody’s else’s book, and I would end up thinking: “Give me something I haven’t heard before.”

It does suggest that following on from Fletcher, Moores was clearly a different proposition, and even putting questions about his credentials to one side his approach to the role was clearly not conducive to dealing with high profile and highly opinionated cricketers within the England set up, and with hindsight it is clear to see his clash with Pietersen was an inevitably.

I did initially think Moores had a rough ride with England, and in his defence he may have been trying (as a new coach) to differentiate between him and Fletcher and stand out as his own man. The problem being though is that he may not quite have been ready for the role, and certainly not with Pietersen at the helm.

What you do have to ask though is why the ECB so rushed into his appointment, presumably knowing what his plans and intentions once he was in the role would be. Evidently, with what we now know, Moores was neither ready nor the right type of coach (a controlling one) for the side and a more experienced coach used to leading players at that level should have been chosen.