{"id":394717,"date":"2025-09-03T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:12:18","slug":"englands-humiliating-loss-to-south-africa-wasim-jaffer-takes-cheeky-dig-at-michael-vaughan-surely-against-the-spirit-of-cricket-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394717\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s humiliating loss to South Africa: Wasim Jaffer takes cheeky dig at Michael Vaughan \u2013 &#8216;Surely against the spirit of cricket&#8217; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wasim-jaffer.jpg\" alt=\"England's humiliating loss to South Africa: Wasim Jaffer takes cheeky dig at Michael Vaughan \u2013 'Surely against the spirit of cricket'\" title=\"Wasim Jaffer and Michael Vaughan\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Wasim Jaffer and Michael Vaughan NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/wasim-jaffer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wasim Jaffer<\/a> once again showed his humorous side on social media, taking aim at former England captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/michael-vaughan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Vaughan<\/a> following England\u2019s crushing defeat to South Africa in the opening ODI at Leeds on Tuesday.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Asked to bat first, England\u2019s batting unit imploded spectacularly, bundled out for just 131 in 24.3 overs. South Africa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/keshav-maharaj\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keshav Maharaj<\/a> ran through the middle order with a four-wicket haul, before <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/aiden-markram\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aiden Markram<\/a>\u2019s scintillating 86 off 55 balls powered the visitors to a seven-wicket win with nearly 30 overs to spare.Jaffer did not miss England\u2019s eighth place in the ICC ODI rankings too. Continuing his friendly banter with Vaughan, the former India opener quipped on X: \u201cEngland at No. 8\u2026 surely against the spirit of cricket. ICC should look into this. @MichaelVaughan.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wasim Jaffer\" msid=\"123672666\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756908738_780_wasim-jaffer.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/>The witty jibe instantly drew reactions from fans, many of whom recalled the regular back-and-forth between the two ex-cricketers. Jaffer has built a reputation for posting lighthearted digs at Vaughan whenever England struggle, and this time was no different.Meanwhile, England skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harry-brook\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Brook<\/a> admitted his side had endured \u201cone of those bad days.\u201d Speaking at the presentation, he said: \u201cNot ideal. Not a great start to the series. We couldn\u2019t get a partnership. Hopefully, we would have bowled like them. They bowled well.\u201dBrook added that the team would quickly move on from the heavy defeat: \u201cWe travel to London and want to put this behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wasim Jaffer and Michael Vaughan NEW DELHI: Wasim Jaffer once again showed his humorous side on social media,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[75309,1406,7504,136508,57119,136507,79354,47909,79,16,15,136506],"class_list":{"0":"post-394717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-aiden-markram","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-england-cricket","11":"tag-england-vs-south-africa-odi","12":"tag-harry-brook","13":"tag-keshav-maharaj","14":"tag-michael-vaughan","15":"tag-south-africa-cricket","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wasim-jaffer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115140778202619437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}