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Vaughan among contracted players

LONDON: Former captain Michael Vaughan was among 12 players awarded year-long England contracts on Tuesday, while the 15-man squad for the lucrative, winner-takes-all Stanford Super Series was also announced.

Vaughan had been struggling for runs when he resigned as Test captain on August 3 after the third Test defeat that guaranteed South Africa’s first series win in England since 1965.

He was replaced by Kevin Pietersen, who led England to victory in the final Test of a series it lost 2-1 and to a 4-0 win over South Africa in the subsequent one-day series.

Ryan Sidebottom was added to the 14 players in the one-day squad.

England will play the Stanford Superstars on November 1 in a Twenty20 match in Antigua that will net the winning team $20 million in prize money.

The squad for Stanford Super Series and ODI series in India: Kevin Pietersen (Capt.), James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, Stephen Harmison, Samit Patel, Matt Prior (wk), Owais Shah, Graeme Swann, Ryan Sidebottom and Luke Wright.

Year-long contracts: Pietersen, Anderson, Bell, Broad, Collingwood, Cook, Flintoff, Harmison, Panesar, Sidebottom, Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan. — Agencies

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