England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has confessed that the pressure of the job put his marria... Ashes hero admits to marri

In candid extracts from his new book Calling the Shots: The Captain's Story, Vaughan says before he took on the top job he didn't realise its complexity.

"There are pressures on your time, everybody wants a piece of you, you become more visible and more susceptible to stress. There are times when you take that stress home with you," he admits.

"One thing I quickly realised was, when that happens, you have to do something about it or the relationships you hold dearest come under strain.

One example he quotes in extracts published in the Daily Mail was during a spell last year when the team was playing badly and he felt Nicola probably bore the brunt of it at home.

He says: "Not in a nasty way, but I'd just sit there and not talk. I didn't have any conversation or energy. It was purely because I was thinking of the team and how we could improve.

He reveals: "It clashed with the Headingley Test of 2004 so it was always going to be tricky but the only way I was going to miss it was if I was batting or just about to go in. Otherwise I had permission to leave the ground when Nicola went into labour."

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