Michael Vaughan. 2005. England's captain and a longed-for Ashes triumph in the greatest series of them all. Before Vaughan's life-changing moment, when he lifted the urn at The Oval, came a first brush with the Australians almost three years earlier. England were steamrollered 4-1 down under in 2002-03 by arguably the best Test team of all time. Captain Steve Waugh, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and the rest. But Vaughan - on his only tour of Australia - bloodied