/ Editor / 06 March 2007 /

Michael Vaughan brushed off fears surrounding his hamstring despite playing through England's win over Bermuda with an ice-pack strapped to it.

Vaughan's men skittled the Bermudans out for just 45 runs in a one-sided World Cup warm-up game in St Vincent on Monday.
"There's nothing to read into the fact that I have an ice-pack on my hamstring," Vaughan, who confirmed he would be fit to play on Friday against Australia, told BBC Five Live.

"I have an ice-pack on most parts of my body these days. I'm pleased that I've come through."
Yorkshire ace Vaughan made 18 runs off 15 balls before being well caught at square leg.

He added: "I'd like to have had another 30 (runs) or an hour at the crease batting, but 10 overs was always going to be the maximum they were going to allow me to field today.
"I came through it well."

Jon Lewis took 3-7 and James Anderson took 2-8 as England made light work of Bermuda, and Vaughan said: "It was nice to give some of the bowlers four or five overs each.

"I felt good while I was batting. I'd have liked to have had a bit more time in the middle but the plan was always for me to spend 10 overs in the field."

England, on the back of three consecutive wins against Australia recently, head into Friday's game in good spirits and can be backed at 2.24 to carry on their run of form.
Vaughan is trading at 8.5 to end cricket's showpiece event as the top England batsman, while Monday's highest run scorer, Jamie Dalrymple, can be backed at 24.

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