Vaughan to open for MCC

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has been included in the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side to play county champions Durham in the traditional curtain-raiser to the English cricket season at Lord's, starting on April 9.
Yorkshire batsman Vaughan, who has scored six centuries for England at Lord's, is one of six players in the MCC team with Test experience.
Since resigning the England captaincy following last year's Test series loss at home to South Africa, Vaughan has been in the international wilderness.
But the four-day match against Durham give Vaughan, who led England to Ashes glory in 2005, an early chance to impress the selectors ahead of the national side's attempts to reverse the series loss with the West Indies and regain the Ashes from Australia later in the season.
Ian Bell, who has been vying with Owais Shah for the number three spot in England's batting order in Vaughan's absence, will play, and he will be captained by Robert Key, who has just returned from leading the England Lions, the A side, in New Zealand.
England's national selector Geoff Miller, speaking after the team was announced here on Wednesday, said: "All the players in the MCC team will be hungry to prove a point to the selectors, so we are confident we will see four days of tough, hard-fought cricket.
"Every English cricketer wants to be involved with the national set-up this summer because the world's eyes will be on England for both the npower Ashes Series and the ICC World Twenty20," the former England off-spinner added.
Essex and England wicketkeeper James Foster will be behind the stumps and the MCC side also features promising Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid.
MCC's team shares 159 England Test caps between them and MCC assistant secretary John Stephenson, himself an ex-England batsman, said: "This year's Champion County fixture has all the ingredients to be a classic.
"MCC is delighted to have so many top players turning out against a Durham side that will also be full of internationals."
England duo Stephen Harmison and Paul Collingwood are both Durham players. But it is not yet known whether fast bowler Harmison and/or all-rounder Collingwood will be playing in the MCC match.
Although it is 40 years since MCC, which owns Lord's Cricket Ground, ran English cricket, the club retains worldwide overall responsibility for the sport's laws.
SQUAD
Robert Key (captain), Stephen Moore, Michael Vaughan, Ian Bell, Tom Westley, James Foster (wicketkeeper), Adil Rashid, Kabir Ali, Chris Woakes, Steven Finn, Sajid Mahmood.