LOUGHBOROUGH (England): Michael Vaughan could have played his last game as captain of England's limited-overs team with new coach Peter Moores hinting at changes on Wednesday.

Moores replaces Duncan Fletcher on May 1 and the West Indies will visit England for a four-Test tour 16 days later.

England's World Cup squad arrived back in London on Wednesday after failing to reach the semifinals.

Moores said he would talk to Vaughan about the team's last six months, but he left open the possibility that England may have different captains in each form of the game.

Vaughan took over captaincy in the shorter version of the game in May 2003 when Nasser Hussain stepped down after the 2003 World Cup. He took over from Hussain as Test captain in July that year.

Captain for first Test

``Michael is going to be captain for the first Test, so it's important to speak to him. His reputation as a captain goes without saying,'' Moores said. ``He will have some fairly interesting views on what happened this winter. In an ideal world, it's nice to have one captain, but we'll see.''

Self-discipline

After the drunken antics of Andrew Flintoff in the Caribbean — the all-rounder went on a late night drinking binge and reportedly had to be rescued from the ocean at 4 a.m. after falling off a small pedal boat — Moores wants players to police their own discipline.

``Discipline is important in any cricket team because you need to be efficient to get the work done to make sure you can go forward,'' Moores said. ``Discipline is best when it comes from the players themselves and from the environment it's created. Hopefully, that's the sort of environment we'll have in the England team.''

The 44-year-old Moores played for English counties Sussex and Worcester as a batsman and wicketkeeper, but never made the step up to international level. He said that would not be an issue.

``Going through the county system, you meet lot of international players and I have never had a player say it was a problem,'' Moores said.

Moores started coaching after retiring in 1998. In 2003, he guided Sussex to its first county title in its 164-year history. He was an assistant coach for the England `A' team in 2000-01, before being named director of the National Cricket Academy in 2005. — AP

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