Vaughan welcomes 'English Premier League'

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The England and Wales Cricket Board have been exploring the possibility of a sibling event to the IPL from 2010 onwards with Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford keen to be one of the investors in such an event.

Asked about the possibility of setting up a tournament in this country, Vaughan said: "It would be silly if we didn't. Whether you can throw the monies which have been thrown about in India into a league in England, I'm not sure."

He added: "But we would be silly not to try to produce our own kind of competition.

Yorkshire on Wednesday began their LV County Championship campaign against Hampshire at Headingley.

But all the pre-season chat, according to Vaughan, has been about the newest product of the sport.

"Even young players at Yorkshire want to talk about IPL cricket," he said. "It is on the tip of everyone's tongues.

"They all love Twenty20 cricket; we want to win the Championship, the Friends Provident and the Pro40 but the one day the players would love to get to is that Twenty20 finals because we have never been.

"That shows how important and special Twenty20 cricket is."