MICHAEL VAUGHAN hopes Colin Graves may be just the man to provide the change needed to snap English cricket out of its own “soap opera.”

Former Ashes-winning captain Vaughan has likened the ongoing sagas which beset England to the stuff of broadcast drama.

“If any producer is willing, make a movie,” he said, using perhaps not best metaphor given the film investment tax-dodging schemes that so many former England cricketers have been caught using.

The current mixed messages about chronic malcontent Kevin Pietersen’s chances of resurrecting his international career, despite being sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board 13 months ago, may have their origins in an opening salvo from incoming ECB chairman Graves, who starts in May.

Even so, Vaughan believes the Yorkshireman could well be just what is needed to help England out of an era in which it appears the Pietersen intrigue simply will not go away.

Vaughan also said he was “staggered” by Alastair Cook’s remarks on Wednesday — just as England were naming their squad to travel under his captaincy for three Tests to the West Indies.

Cook claimed that hindsight probably proved coach Peter Moores and his fellow selectors were wrong to remove him as their World Cup captain at the 11th hour.

“The game needs a change. It needs someone to come in and say: ‘The past is the past,’ and to start afresh,” he said on Test Match Special.

Graves has already served notice that he will do things his way by indicating in a radio interview that Pietersen — axed after England’s whitewash 2013-14 Ashes defeat — may yet have a route back into favour if he can make first-class runs in county cricket this summer.

by Our Sports Desk