Vaughan begins inquest after defeat

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Tuesday's humiliating nine-wicket defeat by South Africa at the Kensington Oval condemned England to another early exit and provoked another period of soul-searching at their inability to perform on the big occasions.

England were dismissed for 154 and Vaughan admitted: "We need a strategy to move forward. The most important thing is getting England back on track. Since 1992 England have not produced any good one-day cricket and we need to know why."

The defeat to South Africa continued a run of failures in the premier one-day tournament, in which they have not progressed to the latter stages for 15 years and have only beaten four Test sides in the last four tournaments.

Vaughan added: "We have to get the team playing well because I believe we've got the talent in the country to have a good one-day team."

Both Vaughan and coach Duncan Fletcher are bound to come under pressure at the end of a miserable winter where England have disappointed at the Champions Trophy, suffered an Ashes whitewash and under-performed at the World Cup.

The only highlight of the gruelling schedule was the surprise victory in the Commonwealth Bank series, when four successive wins clouded a dismal campaign prior to that.

But Vaughan stressed: "It's not about Michael Vaughan or Duncan Fletcher, it's about people coming up with a strategy, thinking about who is the best person to lead England forward, who is the best coach to lead England forward and if it's me and Fletch we will have to come up with a better strategy.

"We got hammered in the ICC Champions Trophy, we went to the Ashes with a lot of expectation and lost 5-0 and I guess we held onto the back of four victories at the end of the CB Series, smiled our way home on the flight, then turned up at the World Cup thinking we had a great chance of playing well.

"I firmly believed we would do a lot better than we have. I firmly believe we have a lot of talent in that dressing room. But to lose 5-0 and get knocked out of the World Cup in the circumstances that we have is not good enough."